Day: June 13, 2014
In Loving Memory of Ruby Dee
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In Loving Memory of
Ruby Dee (Ruby Ann Wallace) 1922-2014
Our condolences go out to the surviving family of faithful wife, endearing friend, multi talented singer, actress, poet, performance artist, and activist, Ruby Dee. May God strengthen the interplanetary movement. Where there is sorrow, may joy in Christ lift your spirits, where there is pain via matters of the heart; may His soothing present help provide comfort. The journey was a long one, fought tooth and nail and now heaven called her home to the much of avail. May sympathy be soon washed with empathy that to be present with the lord is only via bodily absence, with Heaven welcoming home the spirit.
“The greatest gift is not being afraid to question”
(Ruby Dee , American Poet,1922).
Ruby Dee & Husband Ossie Davis
“Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it” (Ecclesiastes 12:7 KJV).
My first encounter with this couple was as a child watching sesame street as they sang along Oscar the Grouch. Their talent, love, activism, and professionalism has graced a many screens, stages and causes before then and afterwards until called home to Glory.
I think my most memorable or cherished roles for Ruby Dee would be from the movie “Just Cause” along Sean Connery and Blair Underwood, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” along Halle Berry.
She and her husband also entertained via numerous other plays, movies, performances…but I guess the Spike Lee Films/Movies were a ground-setting for my admiration and respect for this couple. They also had roles in Alex Haley’s Roots. He, her husband Ossie Davis, graced me with auditory from the late great Langston Hughes, preceded her in death and afterwards, I had the opportunity to see her in an unshared light more often.
However, something has to be noted about their marital bond (in public view). This couple was in deep and altruistic love both onscreen and off-screen and never once was there any scandal that I viewed against that tri-cord union. They were most often photographed, filmed, and recorded together, yet collectively as an item singular via love. This idealistic of someone’s gifts making extraordinary room for them and placing them in the view of great men (humanity).
We salute you Ruby Dee as you join Ossie in the gates of heaven. The party is going to be massive as the greats will all be waiting to sing along with you praises to the Most High.
“And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken” (Ecclesiastes 4:12 KJV).
“And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder”
(Mark 10:8-9 KJV).
SALUTING THE DEFYING OF ALL ODDS via the BOND of LOVE
Farewell Ruby Dee…Gone, but not forgotten
IEPM STC-TSG Web Admin
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