Ruby Mordecai
Posted: August 28, 2015
REFORM, Ala. — Ruby Doris McGarity Mordecai, 81, died Aug. 26, 2015, at Windsor Place in Columbus. Services are Saturday at 11 a.m. Skelton Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. George Shaw and Jarrod Mordecai officiating. Burial will follow at Zion Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation is today from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs. Mordecai was born Oct. 14, 1933, in Pickens County, Alabama, to the late John Henry McGarity and Mary Ellen Gorbar McGarity. She was a member of Friendship Baptist Church and was formerly employed as a store owner. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Woodrow Mordecai; brothers, Robert McGarity, Paul McGarity and Virgil McGarity; sisters, Jewel Higdon and Gertrude McMahon. She is survived by her daughters, Sherie Mordecai Shaw and Sueanne Mordecai Davidson; sons, Melvin Mordecai, Mike Mordecai and Mark Mordecai, Jerome Mordecai; 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to Community Hospice Attn: Marsha Baker, 3289 McCullough Blvd., Belden, MS 38826.