McGuffey

Includes Becker, McGuffy, Menge

Reverend Ruby Rose Becker

Nov. 23, 1928 – May 10, 2006

A memorial service for the Rev. Ruby Rose Becker will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Unity Church of the Valley in Vacaville. The Rev. Vic Jenkins will officiate. The Rev. Becker died at her home in Vacaville on May 10, 2006. She was born on Nov. 23, 1928, in Redmond, Ore.

Becker was an associate minister at Unity Church of the Valley in Vacaville for the past nine years. She served as coordinator of the chaplaincy program and was very involved with her native American culture, facilitating a drumming circle at Unity. Ruby Rose graduated from San Jose State with a degree in psychology in 1979, and shortly thereafter, graduated from Ministerial School and became an ordained minister of the Science of Mind Church in San Jose. In the early 1980s, she was called to serve as minister of Unity Church in downtown San Francisco.

Ruby Rose was preceded in death by her mother, Doretta Nicholas Watrous; father, Alvin Becker; an infant child, Sean; and first husband, Frank McGuffey.

She is survived by her sister, Alvina Long; brothers, Jacob Alvin Becker and T.J. Alvin Becker; as well as her daughter, Dee; and son, Frank.

In the early 1950s, Ruby Rose and husband, Frank, moved to the Bay Area to raise their family. From this union she has five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Ruby Rose married a second time in 1969 to Pax Cheng, who had two young daughters, Charlotte and Karen. From this union, she has two grandchildren.

Published in The Reporter from June 2 to June 9, 2006