To view online memorial DVD, click here: Ruby Asher 1920-2011

Mrs. Ruby May Asher, 90, of Union City died 3:20 p.m. Monday, March 7, 2011, at Golden Living Center in Union City.

Funeral services will be conducted 10:00 a.m. Friday in the chapel of Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home. Pastor Tommy Hall will officiate. Burial will follow in Old Republican Cemetery .

Mrs. Asher was born April 29, 1920, in Poinsett County, Arkansas, daughter of the late Benjamin Harrison and Rosie Lou Emma (Shepard) Butler. She married Walter D. Asher on June 20, 1941. He died August 28, 2003. Mrs. Asher was a member of First Assembly of God in Union City where she had served as a Sunday school teacher and on the Women's Ministry Council. She was a licensed Assembly of God minister and a homemaker.

She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Jeannine and Bobby Webb of Union City and Angela and Mike O'Shaughnessy of Wilmington, Delaware; two sons and daughters-in-law, Rev. Walter W. Asher and La Wanda Asher of Troy who serves as minister of Antioch Union Church, Rives Union Church and Central Union Church and Ken and Debra Asher of Union City; her son-in-law, Abe Griffin of Troy; 14 grandchildren; 17 great grandchildren; and 4 great great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her daughter, Mary Demetrus Griffin; her great grandson, Adam Roberson; and three sisters, Esther Martin, Virdie Forrester and Rachel Fagan.

The family will receive friends at Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Thursday.

Pallbearers will be Tim Quinn, James Forrester, Steve Vaughn, Allen Posey, George Goddard and Teddy Montgomery.

Honorary pallbearers will be Wayne Mc Clure and Ron Bates.

Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home (731) 885-1033