TUPELO – Frances Edge Ruff Taylor, 93, died Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo after a brief illness. She was born in Guntown on Jan. 13. 1921, to Elmer Francis and Eulala Stevens Edge. She graduated from Tupelo High School and married Balfour Ruff on May 22, 1943. A farmer's wife, they farmed the lands where the present Mall of Barnes Crossing is located, known then as Ruff Dairies and Farms. and lived there most of their married lives. A charter member of the St. Luke United Methodist Church in Tupelo, she was a former Sunday School teacher and active in many of the church's functions. She always dressed to the nine's and loved the history of things, especially her family. She traveled far and wide tracing her family genealogy. A lover of nature, she enjoyed bird watching, was a former president of the DAR and a member of the Colonial Dames of the 17th Century. She embraced life fully, lived well and touched the hearts of her family and many friends over her 93 years.
A celebration of life service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, in the Tupelo Chapel of Holland Funeral Directors with the Rev. Rick Brooks officiating. Burial will follow in Lee Memorial Park. Visitation will be from noon to service time Sunday only.
Survivors include her children, Amelia R. Morris and Balfour W. Ruff Jr., both of Tupelo; grandchildren, James Ruff Morris (Amanda), Dr. John D. Morris, Balfour W. "Bill" Ruff III and Adam Reed Ruff; great-grandchildren, Ellie Marie Morris, Anna Kathryn Morris, John Moquin Morris and Richard Ruff Morris; three nieces, Marian DeLoach, Susan Whitaker and Sylvia Filgo Brown; one nephew, Buddy Edge; her loving caregiver, Mae Patton.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Charles H. Taylor (died Oct., 2010); four siblings, Ellis F. Edge, James Clyde Edge, Ethel Edge Filgo and William "Bonnie" Edge.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons and great-grandsons.

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