DEXTER -- Ruby Juanita Sample, 85, died Oct. 6, 2008, at her home.
Born April 19, 1923, at Poplar Bluff, to the late Dewitt and Rachel McMannis Thompson, she was a homemaker.
She married Theodore Sample who preceded her in death in August 1964.
She was also preceded in death by one daughter, Shirley Newman.
Survivors include: one son, Tommy Sample of Poplar Bluff; one brother, Leon Thompson of Lowndes; one sister, Gladys Riebling of Columbia, Ill.; and three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Visitation is scheduled from 10 a.m. until time of services at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.
Burial will follow in the Dexter Cemetery.