THE DAYTONA BEACH NEWS-JOURNAL
Daytona Beach, Florida
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Ruby Ray Edmund Cade graduated into Glory at 3:45 am on March 8 after having lived 103 years and 10 months of a very active, productive life.

Ruby was the third child of Philander and Mittie Williamson Edmund. She was born in Boardman, North Carolina on May 11, 1912.

At age 11, she and her two older sisters, Alice and Loyce, along with her younger brother, Clarence, were orphaned. Philander died of leukemia and two years later Mittie died of tuberculosis. While very sick Mittie asked her sister, Sarah Williamson, to keep her four children together, which she and her husband, Kinchen (Uncle Bud) Williamson did, adding them to their 5 children.

Ruby was a teenager when her Uncle Bud and Aunt Sarah moved their family to Seville, building a small home about two miles east of Seville.

In Seville Ruby met Frederick P. Cade and they were married on February 21, 1931. This marriage produced five children. Fred and Ruby loved their children and worked hard at their fern business which eventually became F. P. Cade & Sons, Inc.

Ruby was predeceased by Fred on February 19, 1988 and son, James L. Cade, on February 11, 2016 and her siblings.

She is survived by two daughters, Betty Ann Carroll-Bolin (Junius), and Iris Rivers, two sons, Pasco (Vivian) and Forrest (Dianne), 12 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-grandchild.

Ruby's first priority was her children and their families. She told her oldest son that he had been carried to church when he was just two weeks old. Certainly she had done the same with each child. Seville Trinity United Methodist Church was a major part of her family life and she was the oldest member of that church where she had been active in the women's church group. Ruby had great joy in attending her children's school and church activities, reading, gardening, preparing great meals, and sewing/ quilting, making a quilt for each of her 5 children.

Friends are invited to attend a visitation from 6 to 8 pm, Friday, March 18, at the Clayton Frank & Biggs Funeral Home in Crescent City.

Funeral services are scheduled for 11:00 am on Saturday, March 19, at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Seville with interment following at the Seville Cemetery.