Mrs. Gray was a life long resident of Macon County, daughter of the late Judson Jefferson D. and Ella Bates Stiles. She was a member of the Home Demostration Club until ill health prevented her attendance. She was also a Gold Star Mother, having lost a son, Major J. Fred Gray, in World War II, on May 24, 1943. She was married to Javan J. Gray of Macon County in 1907, who survives.
She was a homemaker and member of Morrison Presbyterian Church for 59 years.
Surviving in addition to the husband, are three daughters, a son, three sisters, four brothers, ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at 11 a. m. Saturday in First Presbyterian Church.
The Rev. Ed Smith Jr., Dr. Thomas W. Lane and Rev. Robert Weaver will officiate and burial will be in Rush Cemetery. Pallbearers will be John Rush, Horace Nolen, Lloyd Stamey, Edwin Pitts, Bill Williamson and Robert Hooper.
The body will remain at Potts Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p. m. Friday.
Mrs. Gray was a life long resident of Macon County, daughter of the late Judson Jefferson D. and Ella Bates Stiles. She was a member of the Home Demostration Club until ill health prevented her attendance. She was also a Gold Star Mother, having lost a son, Major J. Fred Gray, in World War II, on May 24, 1943. She was married to Javan J. Gray of Macon County in 1907, who survives.
She was a homemaker and member of Morrison Presbyterian Church for 59 years.
Surviving in addition to the husband, are three daughters, a son, three sisters, four brothers, ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at 11 a. m. Saturday in First Presbyterian Church.
The Rev. Ed Smith Jr., Dr. Thomas W. Lane and Rev. Robert Weaver will officiate and burial will be in Rush Cemetery. Pallbearers will be John Rush, Horace Nolen, Lloyd Stamey, Edwin Pitts, Bill Williamson and Robert Hooper.
The body will remain at Potts Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p. m. Friday.
Family Members
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Hermie Thedocia Stiles Lawson
1888–1965
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John Brackenridge "Brack" Stiles
1890–1939
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Lela Ethel Stiles Cunningham
1892–1972
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Henry Harrington Stiles
1894–1974
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Thomas Watson Stiles
1896–1957
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Claude Daniel Stiles
1898–1981
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Sadie Emogene Stiles Penland
1901–1987
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Orville Judson Stiles
1903–1992
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George Theodore Stiles
1905–1989
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Fred Verrel Stiles
1909–1938
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Helen Belle Stiles Rogers
1911–1997