Ruby McLeod

Ruby Jean Cook McLeod passed away peacefully at home on March 14, 2022.
Celebration of Life will be held 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19, 2022, at First Presbyterian Church, with a reception to follow. Rev. Greg Glover will officiate.
The family will receive friends on Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. at McReynolds-Nave & Larson Funeral Home.
Ruby will be laid to rest next to her husband at Greenwood Cemetery.
She was born December 26, 1922, in Leakesville, Mississippi, daughter of the late Alfred Franklin Cook and Angeline Ball Cook. She married her high school sweetheart, Harry L. McLeod, and the family moved to Clarksville in 1959. She was a beloved, faithful member of First Presbyterian Church where Miss Ruby was instrumental in starting a preschool many years ago, and her special ministry was sending birthday cards. She was active in the William Edmiston Chapter of the DAR and the Clarksville Garden Club. Mrs. McLeod was preceded in death by her husband, Harry L. McLeod, youngest son, William L. (Bill) McLeod, and siblings Morgan Cook, Marie Cook McLendon, Sammie Cook, and Duane Cook. She is survived by her daughter Linda McLeod Knox (John), Douglas, Arizona; son Larry McLeod (Cathy), Clarksville; daughter-in-law Suzanne Graham McLeod, Columbus, Ohio; and grandchildren John Knox (Merrisa), Salem, Oregon; Shelley Mathews (Dan), Overland Park, Kansas; Travis McLeod (Elizabeth), Nashville; Allison McLeod, Knoxville; Cameron McLeod (Nicole), Columbus, Ohio; Lynwood McLeod, New York City; Logan McLeod (Russ Zokaites), Morehead, Kentucky; six great grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
The family wishes to thank Mrs. McLeod’s special friends and caregivers Ella Hay, Thelma Batson, Gwen Harris, and the hospice team.
In lieu of other remembrances, the family requests donations in Miss Ruby’s name to First Presbyterian Church or Loaves and Fishes.
Online condolences may be made at www.NaveFuneralHomes.com

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