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Born: September 30, 1958
Death: July 24, 2010
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Ruby Jaye Lucas
September 30, 1958 -
July 24, 2010
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Life Legacy
Ruby was born at Letterman Army Hospital on September 30, 1958. She was the youngest of three children born to Cornelio and Leonora Lucas. She earned her lifelong nickname before she was 12, by writing it on the side of one of her tennis shoes....and it stuck. Her family and her husband usually used her nickname rather than her real name because BooBoo just sounded right.
She went to Lowell and graduated at the top of her class. She went on to SF State and majored in music. She loved to sing and eventually joined the Peninsula Women's Choir, sometimes featured as a soloist. She was even invited to join the San Francisco Symphony Chorus but decided that singing was more of a passion than a profession. She also sang in a Russian Orthodox Church in San Francisco for many years, even though she didn't speak Russian. She had self taught herself the Cyrillic alphabet, so many times when she sang, she had no idea what the words meant in Russian. She just liked the way it sounded.
Ruby met her husband Bundy in 1989 at one of the Christmas recitals for the Peninsula Choir in Palo Alto. He was attracted to the girl who sang louder and better than anyone there and she was intrigued by the fact that he had been a Green Beret in Vietnam and had been a long time fire department paramedic and had then become a movie and television set medic on some very large Hollywood shows and soon they were living together. Shortly after that, they were married in September, 1989 and settled in Daly City.
Ruby was a lifelong aerobics fanatic and when her best friend and instructor Melanie and her husband decided to leave the Bay Area, she asked Ruby to take over her company and run her classes. Melanie donated all the equipment to her including her sound system and soon Ruby was expanding ACME Exercise Company on her time after work and on the weekends.
She and Bundy had one of the best weeks of their married lives in Hawaii and it was always her desire to travel back there again. Often, she would fly over to whatever city Bundy happened to be working in on a movie and she loved to meet interesting and popular actors. She was on a first name basis with people like Matt Damon, Benjamin Bratt, Martin Landau, Sir Ben Kingsley and Clint Eastwood.
Ruby died on Saturday, July 24th at home. She is survived by her husband Bundy, her father Cornelio and her brother Cornelio Junior. She was loved and will be greatly missed.
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