Death in family

NY Post reporter Ruby, 29

Reporter Elizabeth Ora Ruby, 29 — for five years a shining light in the New York Post newsroom — died suddenly in her sleep Wednesday in her Bronxville home.

Ruby started at The Post as a copy clerk and typist, immediately distinguishing herself as unfailingly outgoing, good humored and kind.

“I’ve never seen her down,” her supervisor, Ianthe Ephraim, recalled.

“She was fearless,” remembered friend and paginator Richard “Rico” Rossiello. “She talked to absolutely everybody — and she liked absolutely everybody.”

Ruby was soon reporting and writing for the news, features and sports sections.

She was uncommonly generous.

Reporter Isabel Vincent remembers Ruby once returning from a vacation with an unbidden gift: “She told me, ‘I brought you back a purple T-shirt, because you never wear that color — and you should.’ ”

Ruby would patiently explain computers, phones and balky copy machines to new hires, and was incapable of go- ing out for lunch or coffee without asking multiple co-workers if she could get something for them.

Undaunted by “No thanks,” she’d ask again the next day, explaining cheerfully, “One of these days, you might surprise me and say yes.”

An avid sailor and accomplished flutist, Ruby grew up in Midland Gardens. She was a 2012 graduate of Gettysburg College.

Ruby is survived by her parents, David Ruby and Sarah Gavan, and her younger sister, Caroline.

Calling hours will be at the Fred H. McGrath and Son Funeral Home, Bronxville, next Tuesday between 4 and 8 p.m.

A memorial service will be held at the Reformed Church of Bronxville on Wednesday at 11 a.m.