Ruby Scott Beaty, 92, of Chattanooga, died on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005, at her home.
A descendant of early East Tennessee families, she was born in Shawanee, TN, near the Cumberland Gap. She completed high school at Lincoln Memorial University Academy in nearby Harrogate, TN, in 1929, the last year of the academy's existence.
A homemaker all her married life, she began, following her husband's death in 1969, a new and successful 10-year career as a saleswoman at Loveman’s department store at Eastgate Mall.
She is best known to her loved ones as their eternally loving, giving and nurturing maternal grand matriarch. She devoted her entire life to the care and enrichment of her large and extended family. She will be greatly missed by so many, but has undoubtedly been welcomed by heavenly bands for her relentless and abiding service to God and man.
She was preceded in death by her father and mother, James and Lula Coleman Scott; her husband, James A. Beaty; and her daughter, Jeanne Dunn.
She is survived by her sister, Pearl Scott Turner, of Knoxville; her sons, Lee and Pat Beaty, of Chattanooga; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren, Emma Grace Smith, of Chattanooga, and Kinsley Grace Terrett, of Canton, GA.
The funeral services will be graveside at 3 p.m. Saturday in Forest Hills Cemetery with the Rev. Everett Gossett officiating. Burial will follow.
The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Friday at the Highway 58 Chapel of Turner Funeral Homes.
Arrangements are by Turner Funeral Home, Highway 58 Chapel, 894-2012.