Ruby Louise Denning

Ruby Louise Denning, age 82, died Tuesday, November 10th, at the Tara Plantation of Carthage.

The viewing will be at Red Branch Baptist Church from 2:00-3:00pm on Saturday, November 14, 2026. Funeral services will follow at 3pm on Saturday, November 14th, with the Rev. Tim Coe officiating. Burial will follow at Priest Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Friends and family are invited to join the family back at Red Branch Baptist Church’s fellowship hall for the funeral reception.

Louise was born on January 28th, 1944 to the late James Oscar & Ruby Ethel Carter Chappell. They raised her in a Christian home. Her family attended Union Presbyterian Church where her dad was a Deacon and where Louise was invited to give her first sermon. While attending Carthage High School, she was Student Council President and was crowned Mrs. Carthage.

When Louise graduated from high school, she earned a full scholarship from Sandhills Veterans Association to attend the High Point School of Nursing. She married her late husband, George Elridge Denning and had her daughter, Katherine Elizabeth Denning. She worked several years at Moore Regional Hospital as Nurse Manager of the Waldrip Medical Intensive Care Unit. She worked at St. Joseph’s on the Pines Home Health Care as a supervisor for 5 years until her husband asked her to help manage his paving business.

In her later years, Louise could be found in the early morning reading in her Bible, watching the birds on the front porch build their nest, and looking after her two chihuahuas, Little May and Baby Kay. She played an instrumental role in raising her granddaughter. Louise was a good, Christian woman who cared for everyone around her.

She is survived by her daughter, Katherine Elizabeth Denning and her granddaughter, Katherine Louise Denning; her brother-in-law, Johnny Denning; her nephews, Phillip and Jimmy Chappell; her nieces, April Kelley and Kandie Stec, as well as several cousins, great-nieces and great-nephews.

Services are entrusted to Fry & Prickett Funeral Home.

Online condolences can be made at PinesFunerals.com