Ruby Keech Dunbar

Published 7:03 pm Thursday, June 23, 2016

Ruby Keech Dunbar, age 87, died on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at her daughter’s residence after a decline in health.

She was born in Beaufort County, NC, on May 7, 1929, a daughter of the late Levi Keech and Cora Webster Keech. Mrs. Dunbar was a member of West Main Baptist Church, the Friendship Sunday School Class and the ECHO group. She was married to the late Felton Conway Dunbar who died July 18, 1980.

Mrs. Dunbar retired in 1989 from the Rocky Mount, NC City School System as a teacher’s assistant.

Besides her parents and her husband, she was preceded in death by a sister, Sally Keech Woolard and brothers, Rudolph Keech and Berl Keech.

Mrs. Dunbar is survived by her children: Felton Cecil Dunbar and his wife Pamela Daniels Dunbar of Concord, NC, Leon Conway Dunbar of Newport News, VA, and Robin Dunbar Turner and her husband James Faison Turner of Danville; sister, Meredith Keech Carowan of Pantego, and a brother, J.T. Keech of Pantego; grandchildren: Sarah Ainsley Turner, Caroline Dunbar Turner and Felton Andrew Dunbar.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 12 noon from West Main Baptist Church with the Reverend Bruce Wilson officiating. The family will receive friends at the church one hour before the service and at other times at the residence of her daughter, Robin Dunbar Turner and her husband James Faison Turner, 344 Forest Circle.

A graveside service will be held on Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 4:00 P.M. from the graveside at the Pineview Cemetery, 761 North Raleigh Street, Rocky Mount, NC 27801.

Townes Funeral Home and Crematory, 215 West Main Street, is serving the Dunbar family.

Online condolences may be directed to www.townesfuneralhome.com.