Ruby Lorelle Smith Thompson

Services for Ruby Lorelle Smith Thompson will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, December 18, 2015 at Stephens Funeral Home Chapel of Meridian. Rev. Jack Kerns and Rev. Tom Belcher will officiate. Burial will follow in Mt. Horeb Baptist Church Cemetery.

Ms. Thompson was born October 11, 1925 to Holmes and Luna Burris Smith. She was born in McCall Creek, MS. She graduated from high school in the Auburn Community and attended Draughan's Business College in Jackson. She then worked for the telephone company for 35 years, retiring in 1981 in Baton Rouge, LA. Upon retiring, she and her husband moved to Meridian to be near her daughter and her family. Those years have been such a happy time to be near those she loved and cared for so much.

She is survived by a son, Thomas Rowan McLeod (Jeanette); daughter Peggye Lynn LeBlanc Neal; Granddaughters Gega Michelle Potate, Tami Lynn Herrington, Donna Patterson (Barry) and Melinda Faye McLeod; Great granddaughters Megan Potate Snow (Gabe), Lacy Lynn Howington and Lysa Crandall; Great-great granddaughters Adalynn, Elle and Eden Snow, Leilah Herrington and Harper Brooke Potate, due March 2016 ; Great Grandsons Kevin Dewayne Herrington (Kasey), Hunter Thomas Potate (Joi) and Aaron Crandall; Great-great grandsons Layken Herrington, Landen Herrington, Easton Alsup.

Ms. Thompson was preceded in death by her parents, her only brother, Joe Glenn Smith; sisters Lennie Smith and Sarah Dixie Miller; first husband, Robert Rodney LeBlanc, second husband, Charles (Jake) Thompson and great-great granddaughter Kayla Michelle Potate.

Pallbearers will be Tommy Potate, Hunter Potate, Kevin Herrington, Gabe Snow, Braxton Boswell and Carroll McLemore.

Visitation will be held Friday, December 18, 2015 at Stephens Funeral Home in Meridian from 12 until 2.