Ruby Pearl Keithley, 89 of Cedar Rapids, died Sunday, September 18, 2011 at Willow Gardens Nursing and Rehab Center in Marion. Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday, September 22nd at Brosh Chapel in Cedar Rapids, located at 2121 Bowling Street SW, with burial to follow in Shiloh Cemetery. Visitation will be from 12 noon until services Thursday at the chapel. Ruby was born February 12, 1922 in Saybrook, Illinois, the daughter of Johnnie and Pearl (Morton) Abel. Ruby had made homes for her family in Center Point, Cedar Rapids and Canton, Missouri. She spent most of her life in Service of the Lord. She married Charles Keithley December 25, 1973. Ruby is survived by her husband Charles; children Lee (Jim) Meyer, Jim (Jane) West, Dave West, Marla (Keith) Stanley; fifty-one grand-great and great-great grandchildren; a daughter in-law Sue Carnahan; a son in-law Gary Otterbeck; a daughter in-law Shawn West as well as numerous foster children. Ruby is preceded in death by her parents, a brother Howard (Lillian) Abel, her husband John West, sons Jack West and Bob West, a daughter Kay Otterbeck and a great-grandson Andrew Heit. Memorials may be directed to family.