Obits: Grimes, Ruby Blanton Penix Magoffin County, Kentucky Sept 2006 Submitted by ; Diane Montgomery Parsons http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000062 ********************************************************************* 1933 - 2001 Ruby Penix Grimes, 68 of Lucasville, died Tuesday,March 13, 2001, at Southern Ohio Medical Center. She was born Feb. 8,1933 in Salyersville, Magoffin Co. Ky., a daughter of the late Lacy and Lillie Caudill Blanton. She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Herbert Penix, June 17, 1978; and her second husband, Neil Grimes, May 11,1993. Surviving are two sons, Herbert Penix of Lucasville, and Marty Penix of McDermott; three daughters, Bonnie Mullins, Georgia Helton, and Debbie Penix all of Lucasville; one stepdaughter, Clarissa Grimes of Columbus; two brothers, Donald and Arnold Blanton, both of Lucasville; one sister, Catherine Stephenson of Portsmouth; nine grandchildren, Kimberly Shope, Nikki and Natalie Thompson, Brenda Howard, Karen Miller, Jason Penix, Lee and Bradley Penix and Matthew Penix; nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Loraine Brigner and Merzie Weeks; one brother, Robert Blanton; one granddaughter, Jennifer Barnett; and one grandson, Shawn Penix. She was a retired nurse's aide from Edgewood Manor. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at the Big Run United Baptist Church, with Corbet Jenkins officiating, and interment in Big Run Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at McKinley Funeral Home in Lucasville, and from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the church. Portsmouth Daily Times Thursday, March 15, 2001 Page A-9 (Portsmouth, Scioto Co., OH) ************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ -