Funeral services for Bernice Elizabeth "Libby" Clay will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, at Hokes Bluff First United Methodist Church with interment at Forrest Cemetery. The Rev. Harvey Beck will officiate with a eulogy by her dear friends Mrs. Connie Grund and Mrs. Janeal Shannon. Glencoe-Hokes Bluff Funeral Service is in charge. Libby Clay, a resident of Hokes Bluff, died Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, in Birmingham. Ms. Clay was preceded in death by her parents, Ross G. and Nora Condray Clay; two sisters and brothers-in-law, Mrs. Edna Cornelia Clay Smith and Truman Smith and Mrs. Mary Emma Clay Thompson and Paul Thompson; two brothers, William Judson Clay and Joel Darrow Clay; maternal grandparents, John Woodford and Lou Elizabeth Brannon Condray; and her fraternal grandparents, William Edward and Emma Cornelia Lawson Clay. Ms. Clay was a lifelong Methodist, having been baptized as a baby at Attalla First United Methodist Church and ending her life as a member of Hokes Bluff First United Methodist Church, where seven generations of her family have been members. She was a 1958 graduate of Etowah High School, a 1962 graduate of Jacksonville State College and earned her MBA at Georgia State University. She worked 28 years for Scientific-Atlanta Inc., having retired in 1990. Ms. Clay was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, having served two terms as Regent, Recording Secretary and Vice Regent of the James Gadsden chapter. She served the State Society as DAR Representative to Bill Nichols Veterans Home, State Chairman of Project Patriot and the National Society as S.E. Division Chairman of Project Patriot. She was on the Board of Trustees of the Kate Duncan Smith DAR School and President of the Alabama Officers Club. She was also in the DAR Heritage Club, Founders Club, and a Benefactor to the President General's Project. One of her greatest joys in life was to visit her adopted kindergarten class at the DAR School to celebrate special days with the children and to make sure that Santa visited many of them at Christmas. She was a member of the Daughters of 1812, where she chaired Veterans Committees and served as State First Vice President and Second Vice President of the Alabama Charter Chapter; The Jamestowne Society, where she served as Recording Secretary; The National Society Colonial Dames of the XVII Century, where she served as both president and vice president of the Michael King chapter; the United Daughters of the Confederacy, where she chaired the Veterans Committee; the National Society of Dames of the Court of Honor; the National Society of Sons and Daughters of Pilgrims; The National Society of Daughters of American Colonists; the National Huguenot Society; the National Society of Daughters of Colonial Wars, where she served as Chaplain; and the National Society of Southern Dames of America, where she served as Treasurer. She served on the Board of the Gadsden-Etowah Patriots Association and was also a member of the N.E. Alabama Genealogy Society, the Etowah County Historical Society, the United States Capitol Historical Society and the White House Historical Society. She was also an avid supporter of the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity. Ms. Clay was twice awarded the Presidential Award for Community Service. Donations may be made to Lane Chapel KDS-DAR School, 6077 Main St., Grant, AL 35747, or Hokes Bluff First United Methodist Church building fund. (Excerpts from an obituary published in The Gadsden Times, Feb. 1, 2011)