Ruby Helen (DeBusk) Boyce was born February 11, 1945, in Morrill, Kansas to Benjamin F. DeBusk and Odie L. (Ball) DeBusk. She died March 24, 2022, in Chickasha, Oklahoma at the age of 77.
 Private family services will be held at a later date for Ruby Helen Boyce of Chickasha. Cremation and arrangements were under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home, where words of comfort and condolences may be left for the family.
 Ruby grew up in Morrill, Kansas where she graduated high school. After high school she was employed with a nursing home.
 She married Kenneth L. Boyce in 1965.
 Ruby later moved to Avoca, Iowa where she and her husband owned and operated a bar for some time. Ruby had lived in Kansas, Iowa and later moving to Marlow, Oklahoma where she and her husband owned and operated B & B Concrete. She also had been employed with HollyTex in Anadarko and Gabriel in Chickasha.
 Ruby enjoyed spending time with friends, fishing and reading books.
 Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Kevin and Samantha Boyce, of Loveland, CO, one sister Rose Stephens of Chickasha, OK, brother Charles DeBusk of Morrill, KS, and 3 grand-daughters.
 She was preceded in death by both parents, her husband in 1995, four brothers: Jess, Tillman, Frank and Barney DeBusk, Paula Gayle Bevill two sisters, LaVone Beach and May Titus.