Ruby Maness Cooke

Goldsboro – Mrs. Ruby Maness Cooke died Wednesday at Wayne Memorial Hospital of Goldsboro. She was currently a resident of The Pines of Goldsboro, and prior to that, resided at 206 Mourning Dove Lane in Deerwood.

Mrs. Cooke was born on August 21, 1921, to Claudis Ellis Maness and Mamie Victoria Maness in Fayetteville. She was widowed by James Steven Draughon in 1960 and by Harold Smith Cooke on February 21, 1989.

Mrs. Cooke is survived by her son, James Ellis Draughon and wife Barbara Comer of Swansboro; her daughters, Vicky D. Griffin and husband Rev. Ernest Otto (Jr.) of Seven Springs and Betty D. Edwards and husband Ralph Daniel of Goldsboro. Mrs. Cooke had nine grandchildren and seven and 1/2 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by three sisters, Mary Dolly Parker of South Carolina, Claudie Mae Jopson of Pennsylvania and Peggy Victoria Pollard of Fayetteville.

She was preceded in death by brothers, Kerbel Danie Maness, Coolidge Poindexter Maness and Ira Belmont Maness and sisters, Willie Thelma Milligan, Betty Lee Gunter and Jean Olean Irvin.

Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Spring Creek Baptist Church Church with Rev. E.O. Griffin, Jr. officiating. A reception of friends and family will precede the service from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. at the church. Interment will follow at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be made to the Kitty Askins Hospice Center, on behalf of the Southeastern Oncology Center of Goldsboro, at 2402 Wayne Memorial Drive, Goldsboro, NC 27534.

Arrangements are with Seymour Funeral Home.