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12/31/2020, 6 p.m. Mrs. Walden “I cannot do everything, but I can do some things. What I can do, I ought to do. What I ought to do, with the help of God, I will do.” Those are the words Ruby Holland Walden lived by until her death at age 99 in her native Suffolk on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, her family said. Though never elected to public office, Mrs. Walden became a force for community betterment in taking on multiple roles and freely “giving her time and resources to upl...

Obituary: Ruby Holland Walden Oct. 20, 1921-Dec. 22, 2020 December 29, 2020 Ruby Holland Walden, 99, passed on December 22, 2020. She was born on October 20, 1921 in Nansemond County (now Suffolk) to the late Axium Holland and Pearl Langston Holland. She was the sixth of seven children, all who predeceased her: Gladys, Stanley, Thelma, Doris, Roswell, and Reginald. Ruby was a lifelong resident of Suffolk, VA. In 1946, Ruby married her high school sweetheart, the late Frank LeGrant Walden, and...