Her appointment in the WRANS was terminated on 30 September 1946. For her wartime services, Ruby was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1944, which was presented to her in a ceremony in Suva in 1946. She also received the 1939–1945 Star, the Pacific Star, the Australia Service Medal 1939–1945 and the War Medal 1939–1945; but no pay, as her rank was, unlike that of her male counterparts, considered honorary. She was Australias only female coastwatcher. The timber industry resumed after the war ended, but in 1947 Skov became seriously ill with leukemia, and they returned to Sydney in August 1947. He died two weeks later. She married Frank Bengough Jones, a departmental manager, at St John's Anglican Church in Penshurst on 19 June 1950, but he died in 1961. In later life, now known as Ruby Boye-Jones, she suffered from diabetes, and had her left leg amputated below the knee. On the occasion of her 98th birthday in 1989, the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Michael Hudson, wrote to her: "Your name is synonymous with the finest traditions of service to the Navy and the nation. We have not, nor will not, forget your wonderful contribution." Ruby died in Narwee, New South Wales, on 14 September 1990. Her remains were cremated. An accommodation block at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra was named after her, and the Ex-WRANS Association dedicated a page to her in the Garden Island Chapel Remembrance Book.