Ruby Edna Ye Buckwell

Mrs. Ruby Edna Drye Buckwell, 77, of the Rimer Community in Concord, passed away Monday, August 1, 2011, at Transitional Health Services in Kannapolis. A funeral service is scheduled for 4:00 pm Friday, August 5, 2011, at Cross of Christ Lutheran Church. Pastor Johnny Cozart and Pastor C. P. Fisher will officiate. Interment will follow in the Cross of Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery in Concord. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8:00 pm Thursday at Lady's Funeral Home. Mrs. Buckwell was born July 29, 1934 in Cabarrus County. She was a daughter of the late Walter C. Drye and Martha Kluttz Drye. She retired after working thirty-six years for the former Cabarrus Memorial Hospital as a medical records secretary. Mrs. Buckwell was a lifetime member of Cross of Christ Lutheran Church. She served as a church organist for thirty years. Ruby was active in all phases of her church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Daron Gray Buckwell, Sr.; three sisters, Helen Morgan, Hilda Moose and Martha Mae Drye and two brothers, Clarence and Paul Drye. Mrs. Buckwell is survived by sons, Randy Buckwell, wife, LeaAnn of Rimertown; Daron Gray "Chip" Buckwell, Jr. wife, Camilla of Kannapolis; grandsons, Nicholas and Tyler Buckwell; sister, Nora P. Crayton of Salisbury; brother, Clyde Drye of Concord and numerous very special nieces and nephews and also great nieces and great nephews. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Cross of Christ Lutheran Church, 4500 Rimer Road, Concord, NC 28025 or Kannapolis Middle School Library, 1445 Oakwood Avenue, Kannapolis, NC 28081.