Ruby Edmonds Gill

Ruby Edmonds Gill, 103, passed away Monday, December 29, 2025 at the Apostolic Christian Home after a period of declining health. Ruby was born in Schoolfield, Virginia on March 29, 1922 and was the youngest of James I. and Lucy A. (Simpson) Edmonds eleven children. Her father died when she was five and the family knew hard times as they lived through the Great Depression. She graduated from high school in Burlington, North Carolina in 1939 and served in the Women's Army Corps division of the U.S. Army from August 5, 1943 to November 29, 1945 which she said was a great experience in her life. She met her husband, Robert H. Gill on a ship enroute to New Guinea and they married January 28, 1946 after WWII ended. He preceded her in death on March 11, 2004. They had raised their family in North Olmsted and Westfield Center where she was a member of the garden club and had worked at Advance Bronze in Lodi. In retirement they moved to Duluth, Georgia where she was active in the Gwinnett County Senior Center, at church, and the local VA hospital. Ruby is remembered for being an excellent seamstress who made her children's clothing as well as many craft items for the family. She also enjoyed playing the piano and organ. Surviving are her children, Nancy (Jeanne) Gill of Blue Ridge, Georgia, James (Pam) Gill of Charleston, South Carolina, Sandra (the late Bruce) Grossenbacher of Seville and Linda Gill of Colorado Springs, Colorado; four grandchildren, Joshua (Abigail) Grossenbacher, Jillian (James) Ashbrook, Louisa (Jeffrey) Floyd, and Caroline (Bradley) Webb; and seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert; her parents; son-in-law, Bruce; and brothers and sisters, Luther, Hal, James 'Rufus', William 'Paul', Rex and Reo Edmonds, Ollie Hill, Opal Goude, Mamie Chilton, and an infant sister. A Celebration of Ruby's Life will be held at a later date with burial in Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery. Murray Funeral Home in Creston is handling arrangements.