CORDELE – Ruby Nell Hughes, 88, passed away Friday, April 30, 2021 at Crisp Regional Nursing & Rehab. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Monday, May 3, 2021 at the chapel of Hughes & Wright Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Sunnyside Cemetery. The family will receive friends Monday, May 3, 2021 from 10:00 A.M. until time of service. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, seating is limited, masks are required, social distancing should be maintained.
Mrs. Hughes was born in Crisp County, Ga. to the late Truman Harris and the late Ruby Nipper Harris. She was preceded in death by her husband Lanier “Buddy” Hughes. She was retired from Cordele Banking Company where she was head bank teller for 36 years. She was also a member of Penia Baptist Church.
She is survived by her sons: Mike Hughes of Blackshear, Ga. and Rick Hughes of Cordele, Ga.; her sisters: Mary Ethel Bailey and Betty Smith both of Sylvester, Ga., Clara Dunbar of Vienna, Ga. and Brenda Ruff and her husband Roger of Cobb, Ga. grandchildren: Amy Teston and her husband Ray, Michael Hughes Jr., and his wife Emily, Jenn Averill and her husband John John, Clint Hughes and his fiancé Rachael Hughes, great-grandchildren; Landon Teston, Beau Teston, Sam Hughes, Sawyer Hughes, Bailey Grace Averill, John Monta Averill, IV, Novalee Hughes.