A native of Wayne County, TN, Mrs. Lay was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church, Collinwood. She was a former director of the Wayne County Senior Citizens and during her career, she was instrumental in developing the Collinwood and Clifton Ceneters and in getting van transportation service for the public. Mrs. Lay was one of the original founds of the CHS Quarterback Club for the Collinwood football team that began in 1974. She was a daughter of the late Burbin C. and Viola Ray Kelly.
Survivors, husband, Billy Wade Lay, Collinwood, sons, Brent Lay and wife, Thais, of Parsons, TN, Bart Lay and wife, Lisa, of Smithville, TN, grandchildren, Tara, Zack, John, and Jake Lay and Dee Dee Butler, sisters, Jean Thacker, Clifton, TN, Margaret Horn, McMinnville, TN, Shirley Kelley, Waynesboro, TN, Nancy Moorehead, Chapel Hill, TN, several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations be given to the Gideons Organization.
NOTE: The above obituary was taken from the Shackelford Funeral Home Directors, Wayne County, TN website.
Her birth name was Emma Ann Kelly.
A native of Wayne County, TN, Mrs. Lay was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church, Collinwood. She was a former director of the Wayne County Senior Citizens and during her career, she was instrumental in developing the Collinwood and Clifton Ceneters and in getting van transportation service for the public. Mrs. Lay was one of the original founds of the CHS Quarterback Club for the Collinwood football team that began in 1974. She was a daughter of the late Burbin C. and Viola Ray Kelly.
Survivors, husband, Billy Wade Lay, Collinwood, sons, Brent Lay and wife, Thais, of Parsons, TN, Bart Lay and wife, Lisa, of Smithville, TN, grandchildren, Tara, Zack, John, and Jake Lay and Dee Dee Butler, sisters, Jean Thacker, Clifton, TN, Margaret Horn, McMinnville, TN, Shirley Kelley, Waynesboro, TN, Nancy Moorehead, Chapel Hill, TN, several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations be given to the Gideons Organization.
NOTE: The above obituary was taken from the Shackelford Funeral Home Directors, Wayne County, TN website.
Her birth name was Emma Ann Kelly.
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