Ruby Ann Hodges Bolick, age 85 of Blowing Rock passed away Friday May 3, 2024, at Watauga Medical Center.
She was born August 11, 1938, in Watauga County. A daughter of the late Dallas Hodges and Agnes Miller Hodges.
She was the co-owner of the original Log House Florist in Boone before selling many years ago and a gifted seamstress. She used those talents to gift her loved ones throughout life. More than anything though, Ruby loved her family. A loving wife, mother, and grandmother, who spent most of her time later in life watching her grandkids grow up, watching them play ball, play pickle in the yard, sled for hours on end, taught how to make biscuits, and many more wonderful memories. Ruby was nothing short of feisty, and a short order cook in her own kitchen most days, with the biggest heart, and loved to the fullest.
She is survived by two daughters, Teresa Bolick Canton and husband Bruce of Blowing Rock and Reta Bolick Jackson and husband Dwight of Blowing Rock. In addition to her daughters, she is survived by two sisters, Shirley Taylor and husband Alton of Boone and Jean Taylor and husband Sam of Blowing Rock. She is also survived by six grandchildren, Andi Bair and husband Mike of Oldsmar, Florida; Derek Cox and wife Laura of Vilas; Brad McGuire and wife Cindy of Lenoir; Amber Kanoy and husband Josh of Boone; Adam Miller and wife Kim of Hickory and Ashlee Sasser and husband Holt of Sneads Ferry, North Carolina; fourteen great-grandchildren, Cullen Bair and wife Reina of Mesa Arizona; and Kelsi Earley and husbandTrey of Manhattan, New York; Ryan Bair of Brooklyn, New York; Devon McGuire of Lenoir; Braidy Warner of Oldsmar, Florida; Ethan Kanoy of Bozeman, Montana; Macayla Kanoy of Boone; Chandler McGuire of Lenoir; Riley Sasser of Sneads Ferry; Caden Cox of Taylorsville; Logan Cortese of Vilas; Chaney Miller of Hickory; Josiah Kanoy of Boone, and Cooper Cox of Taylorsville. She is survived by a large number of nieces, nephews, and cousins. In addition, she had a treasured bonus daughter, Brenda Greene of Lenoir.
In addition to her father and mother she was preceded in death by her husband of 56 years, Lester Bolick and one sister, Genevieve.
Funeral services for Ruby Ann Hodges Bolick will be conducted at 2:00 PM Monday, May 6, 2024, at Hampton Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow in Bailey’s Camp Baptist Church Cemetery. Dr. Daniel Featherstone and Reverend Brent Bolick will officiate.
The family will receive friends from 12:00 until 2:00, prior to the service.
Flowers are appreciated or memorials may be made to Meals on Wheels,132 Poplar Grove Connector UNIT A, Boone, NC 28607 or to the Hunger Coalition, 141 Health Center Dr # C, Boone, NC 28607.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.hamptonfuneralnc.com
Hampton Funeral and Cremation Service is in charge of the arrangements.
