Love Co., OK. - Obits: Elizabeth Ann "Lizzie" Gray
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Submitted by: Martha N Reddout <MReddout@aol.com>
July 6, 2002
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                    Elizabeth Ann "Lizzie" Gray

Services for Elizabeth Ann "Lizzie" Gray, 92, longtime Wilson area resident,
were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, December 5, at First Baptist Church in Wilson,
with the Rev. Jason Langley officiating.

Mrs. Gray was born June 26, 1908, at Spurry, Texas, the daughter of James Riley
and Bonnie Ann Sanders Jones.  She died Sunday, December 3, 2000, in Ardmore.

She came from Surrey County, Texas in a covered wagon with her family to New
Wilson (Old Hewitt) at the age of eight and grew up and attended school at New
Wilson, Simon, Post Oak and Blackjack.  She and Oscar Lee Gray were married May
28, 1927, at Wilson, and they lived at Bryant and Simon communities where they
raised nine children and three of her sisters, Marie, Mildred and Dollie.  He
preceded her in death January 3, 1969.

Survivors include five sons, O.L. Gray and Roger Gray of Wilson, Danny Gray of
Simon, Jimmie Gray of Greenville, Texas, and Richard Gray of Campbell, Texas;
three daughters, Bonnie Hodges of Wilson, Jo Ann Kinney of San Angelo, Texas,
and Carolyn McKinnon of Gainesville, Texas; two brothers, Dave Jones of Chula
Vista, California, and J.R. Jones of San Diego; 54 grandchildren, 73 great-
grandchildren, and eight great-great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Gray was also preceded in death by one daughter, Ima Jewell Simmons on
June 24, 1995; four sisters, Dollie Evans, Maggie Easterwood, Mildred Banks and
Marie Beck; two brothers, Arvel Jones and Fred Jones; two grandchildren, Angela
Morgan and Gayle Grissom; and two great-grandchildren, Josh Collett and Colby
Reason.

Pallbearers were grandsons.  Honorary pallbearers were the granddaughters.

Interment was in Hewitt Cemetery, Wilson, under the direction of Alexander
Funeral Home, Wilson.

Source:  Marietta Monitor, Love County, December 8, 2000, page 4