Ruby Shipley Burns

Ruby (Shipley) Burns, 97, of Monroeville passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 30, 2011.

Born in England on September 14, 1914 she was a daughter of the late Arthur and Josephine Parker Shipley.

Ruby loved dancing and was very fond of ballet. She was offered a position with a New York City ballet company but was forced by her mother to decline because of her tender years and inexperience. Before marriage she worked in her mother’s store on Bigelow Street in the Greenfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and later as a seamstress for a milliner and a sales clerk.

After Ruby was married to Wilkes-Barre native Edward J. Burns in 1939 she was devoted to her family and active in the communities where she lived, including Kingston, Forty Fort and Dallas. They also lived in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, Lakewood, New York and High Point, North Carolina before Ruby returned to the Pittsburgh area following the passing of her husband on September 17, 2006.

Ruby was also preceded in death by her infant daughter Patricia Eileen Burns, her son Michael Joseph Burns and her brother Orville W. Shipley.

She will be deeply missed by her loving children, Diane S. and her husband Karoly David of La Plata, Maryland and Edward J. Burns, Jr. of Monroeville, six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren as well as several nieces and nephews.

Celebration of Ruby’s Life will be held Friday with visitation from 11 AM to noon in the Church of Saint Stanislaus Kostka, 666 North Main Street in Wilkes-Barre. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at noon. Interment will be in Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Hanover Township.

Arrangements by McLaughlin’s.

Permanent messages and memories can be shared with Ruby’s family at www.celebrateherlife.com