Evelyn Mae (Watson) Gray 1907-1988

Evelyn Mae Gray was born in Dixon, Missouri on October 6, 1907 the daughter of James and Lucinda Allen Watson and passed away in the Phelps County Regional Medical Center in Rolla on March 4, 1988. She had attained the age of 80 years.

She was united in marriage to Claude Gray and unto this union one son and three daughters were born.

Funeral services were held in the Long Funeral Home on Monday, March 7, 1988 at 2 p.m. with Rev. James Bailey officiating. Burial was in the Dixon Cemetery. Serving as her pallbearers were Ronnie and John Gray, Greg Metzen, Bill Mendenhall, Thomas Jacobs Jr. and Claude Jacobs.

She is survived by two sons and daughters in law, Harry and Wanda Gray of Dixon and James and Ellen Bullard of Oceanside, California; four daughter and sons in law, Elsie and Larry Sims, Flossie Mendenhall and Nancy Pennington of Columbia and Barbara Giordano of Washington, Missouri; four step-children, Francis Noll of Arnold, Missouri, Daisy Hirt of Marion, Indiana, Charles Gray of O’Fallon, Illinois, and Edward Gray of Brentwood, Missouri; 29 grandchildren; 25 great grandchildren; five sisters, Ethel McGee of Kansas City, Bertha Schoonover of Dixon, Missouri, Thelma Glawson of Crocker, Lillian Gibbons of New Lennox, Illinois and Letha

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