Ruby Harwood Basinger Tyson

Mrs. Ruby Harwood Basinger Tyson, 81, formerly of Florence Avenue, passed away Sunday, January 30, 2011, at Big Elm Nursing Center in Kannapolis. A funeral service is scheduled for 3:00 pm Wednesday, February 2, 2011, at Eastwood Baptist Church. Rev. Randall Ritchie will officiate. Interment will follow at Carolina Memorial Park in Kannapolis. The family will receive friends from 1:30 to 2:45 pm Wednesday at the church. At other times, the family will be at the home of a daughter, Cheryl Jones, 2213 Kenwood Drive, Kannapolis. Mrs. Tyson was born February 23, 1929 in Rowan County. She was a daughter of the late James Franklin Harwood and Dezzie Holt Harwood. She retired from Puritan Laundry. She was a member of Eastwood Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Bill Basinger who died December 1972 and her second husband, James Tyson who died March 2009; brother, David Harwood; two sisters, Linda Plyler and Jewel Williams; and two grandchildren, Ronald Pickrel and Scott Sanders. Mrs. Tyson is survived by three daughters, Cheryl Jones and husband, Larry of Kannapolis, Peggy Pickrel and husband, Ronald of Davidson and Pam Ailshie and husband, Allen of Salisbury; son, Jimmy Basinger and wife, Cindy of Salisbury; two sisters, Patricia "Trish" Aycock of China Grove and Shirley Harwood of Kannapolis; ten grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and 14 great-great grandchildren.