Ruby Jean Berridge

RUBY JEAN BERRIDGE

Solon

Ruby Jean Berridge, 91, of Solon, died at her home of cancer on Thursday, June 17, 2021.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 23, at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service, where there will be a time of visitation one hour prior to the services. Burial will be at Memory Gardens Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made in Ruby Jean's memory to Iowa City Hospice, Solon Fire Department or the family's choice. To share a thought, memory or condolence with her family, please visit the funeral home website at www.gayandciha.com.

Ruby Jean Long was born March 16, 1930, at her aunts' home on a farm in Iowa County, the daughter of Eugene and Laura (Goss) Long. She attended one-room country school Clear Creek No. 1, grades K thru 8, then University High School "U-High" in Iowa City graduating in 1948. Following high school, she attended Paris Academy of Beauty, which lead to her owning her own beauty shop, Ruby Jean's Country Side Beauty Shop in her home for 15 years. When the Iowa DOT bought their property, she went to work in the Beauty Shop in the Department of Psychology at the University of Iowa for over 20 years. She was united in marriage to Carl Berridge on July 2, 1949, in the First Presbyterian Church (Old Brick) in Iowa City. She enjoyed playing cards, crocheting, feeding and watching the birds and going to the casino.

Her family includes her daughter, Roxanne Vincent; grandchildren, Shonna Mitchell (Todd), Erica Landon (Tom) and Brian Vincent (Amber Carlson); and great-grandchildren, Cameryn Berridge and twins, Ben and Cole Stevenson; Lilly Vincent, Trevin and McKenna Landon.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Carl; son, Kim; and sister, Eunice Long Goodrich.