01-2023 Special Proclamation Honoring the Life & Legacy of Ruby Walker

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*iceFiled in Ciork's JAN 0 3 2023 SPECIAL PROCLAMATION NO. 1-2023 Ruble L. Walker was born in South Bend, Indiana on Christmas Eve, 1940, the daughter of Charles Sr. and Ollie Mae Walker; and Rubie was the sixth of eleven children and grew up in a loving Christian home where family values were taught; and Rubie graduated from Washington High School in 1958 and in 1970, she and her four children relocated to Kalamazoo, Michigan where Rubie continued her education at Kalamazoo Valley Community College earning an associate degree in Social Work; and Rubie eventually found her way back to South Bend where her service to others continued, first by helping to start and co-facilitate “The Diamondnettes” a social club for teenage girls at Washington High School and then becoming involved in the wider South Bend Community; and G^erea^ Rubie began her career of service to others in Kalamazoo where she worked at Bronson Hospital and helped start the Para-Learning Center; and GM£*ea^ Rubie was first employed in South Bend by the Department of Health and Human Services where she led the fight to organize the first union and later by the South Bend Heritage Home foundation, from which she retired in 1998; and in 2022, Rubie relocated to Covington, Georgia, fulfilling a life-long dream of becoming a “Georgia Peach” and where she continued to enjoy cooking, traveling, interior decorating, planning weddings, shopping, talking on the phone and volunteering at the Barksdale Boys & Girls Club in Conyers, Georgia; and G^ema^ Ruble’s first love was praising her Lord through her memberships with the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in South Bend and the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia; and A SPECIAL PROCLAMATION AWARDED BY SOUTH BEND COMMON COUNCIL MEMBERS SHARON MCBRIDE AND KAREN WHITE COMMEMORORATING AND HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF RUBY L. WALKER (^u>nsa^ Rubie transitioned from this life into the next on December 22, 2022, in Conyers, Georgia, survived by two daughters, three grandchildren, five siblings, three “bonus” daughters and a host of nieces, nephews, godchildren, cousins, and friends. G^erea^ after several more years of activism and serving others, Rubie was named a “South Bend Hometown Hero” as an individual who goes above and beyond to serve and help others in the community; and DAWN M. JONES CITY CLERK. SOUTH BEND, IN GH^crea^ Rubie was active in the Democratic Party, serving as a poll supervisor for several years and was also a member of the Urban League, Black Expo & Rainbow Coalition and sat on the board for the AIDS Ministries; and