Ruby Annette Sanders

Ruby Annette Sanders, 75, passed away on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 after a long battle of complications from an extended illness. A funeral service will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 26, 2006 at Trinity United Methodist Church with burial following at Magnolia Park Cemetery. Visitation will be Saturday, March 25, 2006 from 6 until 8 p.m. at McCullough Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations be made to Cherished Children, in care of Mrs. Jean Coleman, 129 South Houston Road, Warner Robins, Georgia 31088.

Mrs. Sanders was born on May 10, 1930 in Memphis, Tennessee and was raised on a farm with her nine siblings just north of Pascagoula, Mississippi. She graduated from Moss Point Mississippi High School and attended a college in Jackson, Mississippi. She then worked at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi for several years. Following this, she attended Springhill College and Providence School of Nursing in Mobile, Alabama. Upon completion, she became a First Lieutenant in the United States Air Force as a flight nurse. She met her husband at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois where they were married in 1966. They were then stationed at Clark Air Base, Philippines where Mark was born. Upon their return to the United States, they relocated to Warner Robins in 1969. Kelly was born here in 1971. Annette worked briefly as a nurse on Robins Air Force Base.

The next five years she attended and graduated from Macon Jr. College, Wesleyan College and the Medical College of Georgia earning AS, BA, BSN, and MSN degrees. She worked for fifteen years at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in nursing and management, retiring in 1995. Her life was devoted to her children, grandchildren, husband, profession and Trinity United Methodist Church Hope Sunday School Class. She will be sorely missed by all who knew her loving spirit and life.

Survivors include her husband, Ned M. Sanders, Warner Robins; son, Commander Mark E. Sanders, United States Navy, Norfolk, Virginia; daughter, Kelly J. Sanders Wayland and son-in-law, Dr. David Wayland, Canton, Georgia; two grandchildren, Jackson and Lindsay Annette Wayland; sister, Alice Greenleaf, Gulfport, Mississippi; brothers, Emerson Wilson, Brandon, Mississippi; and Bill Wilson, Moss Point, Mississippi.


Funeral Home:
McCullough Funeral Home
417 S. Houston Lake Rd.
Warner Robins, GA
US 31088