OBITUARY

RUBY PRESSLEY JERVIS 
Asheville, North Carolina

Submitted by Margaret Collins Ponder

Asheville Citizen Times Newspaper
April 24, 2001

Ruby Lee Pressley Jervis, 90, of 204 Providence Road, died Tuesday, April 24, 2001, at her home.
A native of Haywood County, she lived most of her life in Buncombe County. She was a member of Trinity Baptist Church and was a former Sunday school teacher at Enka Baptist Church. 

She was a daughter of the late Charles and Estella Hall Pressley and the wife of the late John E. Jervis who died in 1985. She was also preceded in death by her brothers, Edward and Ray Pressley, and sisters, Laura Scott, Frankie Robinson and Mamie Gaddis.

Surviving are her sons, Charles R. Jervis and Glenn M. Jervis, both of the home, and William P. Jervis of Hull, Ga.; sister, Velma Ruff of Hazelwood; brother, Vaughn Pressley of Fletcher; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

The funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Anders-Rice Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Jerry Young officiating. Burial will be in Green Hills Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home one hour prior to the services.