Memorial services for Ruby Lee Phelps Alvarez will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Springhill M.B. Church with the Rev. Reginald Anderson officiating. Visitation will be from 1 until 7 today at Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home with family present from 6 until 7 p.m.

Mrs. Alvarez died Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010, at River Region Medical Center. She was 86.

She graduated in 1943 from Magnolia Avenue High School. She worked as an elevator operator at The Valley and had been a deaconess and member at Spring Hill M.B. Church.