Post by Admin on May 28, 2021 12:34:54 GMT -4
L-R: Nedra Ruffin, Kimberly Ruffin Jones and Cheryl Ruffin Robinson (Gina Ruffin Moore, via Detroit Free Press)
Nedra Ruffin, daughter of the late R&B singer and Meridian native David Ruffin of the Temptations, was described as loving, kind, sweet individual with a heart of gold. Ruffin, 58, died May 19 at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak as a result of complications from COVID-19.
Nedra Ruffin’s father, David Ruffin, sang lead for the Temptations in the 60s and went solo in the 1970s. He passed away tragically from a drug overdose in 1991 when Nedra was 27.
She told Ask The Messengers in 2018 that she’d also struggled with drug and alcohol addiction but got clean 18 months after her father passed away.
Ruffin has two sisters, Cheryl Ruffin-Robinson and Kimberly Ruffin Jones, who the singer had with his wife, Sandra, and a brother, David Ruffin Jr. Throughout her life, Ruffin worked as a model, bartender, hospice caretaker, and a ballroom dance teacher, the Detroit Free Press reports.
RIP Miss Ruffin
