Eva A. Ross was born in Cotton Grove, N.C. on Dec. 19, 1917 to Etta Meningall and Ray Owens. She departed this life on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, after battling illness for four years. She professed Christ at an early age, joined and was baptized at Smith Grove Baptist Church. Eva attended public schools in Lexington, N.C. She and her family came to Brooklyn, N.Y. via train in 1929. Eva became a member of the St. Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. Soon after, Eva married James E. Ross, and out of that loving marriage came Phillip M. Ross. In the early 1950s the Ross family moved from the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn to make Cream Ridge, N.J. their home. Eva quickly became accustomed to the community in New Jersey. Eva and her husband, James (Jimmy), planted their own vegetable garden at the side of their home every summer. In addition, she enjoyed going to DeWolf and Hollock U-Pick farms to pick and buy fresh vegetables. She had an active spiritual and social life within her church ? Shiloh Baptist Church. Eva enjoyed baking cakes to assist in contributing for various church functions. Eva was a devoted Christian, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend. Eva?s husband, and two sons, Howard and Richard, preceded her in death. She leaves to mourn, her son, Phillip; her sister, Elizabeth; three grandchildren, many great-grandchildren, and a host of nieces and nephews. She also leaves two devoted friends, Sandra Brown and Shirley Johnson. A funeral service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Tilghman Funeral Home, 52 Main St., New Egypt, NJ 08533. Burial wil follow at Brig. Gen. Wm. C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, North Hanover Township, N.J. Visitation will be from 10:30 a.m. until time of services Tuesday at the funeral home.