Ruby Ann Halpin was born on October 4, 1935 at Bonne Terre, Missouri the daughter of Everette August and Hester Elizabeth Genevieve (Boyer) Klob and passed away on July 5, 2013 at Madison Medical Center in Fredericktown at the age of 77 years. Ruby married Hilton Trip and to this union were born three sons Cary Devaughn Tripp, James Franklin Tripp, and Jackie Tripp and four daughters Judy Tripp-Shafer, Cathy Walsh, Rebecca Brent, and Tracy Edmonds. Ruby later married Emmett Halpin. She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands Hilton Tripp and Emmett Halpin, sons Cary Devaughn Tripp and James Franklin Tripp and one sister Helen Tripp. Ruby is survived by son Jackie (Holly) Tripp of Farmington, daughters Judy (Tom) Tripp-Shafer of Fredericktown, Cathy (John) Walsh of Desloge, Rebecca (Gary) Brent of Fredericktown, and Tracy (Tony) Edmonds of Fredericktown, one brother Robert Klob of St. Louis, and one sister Edith Holst of New York. Also thirteen grandchildren, fourteen great grandchildren, and numerous step-grandchildren and step-great grandchildren.

Visitation; 5:00 P.M. Monday, July 8, 2013 at the Follis and Sons Funeral Home

Funeral Sevice: 1:00 P.M. Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at the Follis and Sons Chapel

Officiating; Rev. Charles Sutton

Interment; Marcus Memorial Park