Willie Jo Gray, Age 85 of Greenville passed away on June 10, 2008. Services will be on Monday, June 16th at 11:00 AM at Coker-Mathews Chapel with Rev. Kirk Holdridge officiating. Interment will follow at Memoryland Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 9:30 AM until service time on Monday morning.
Born on February 24, 1923 in Lone Oak, Texas, she was the daughter of George Willie and Bertha Lee Brazil Burchett. On March 24, 1945, she married James Clyde Gray in Dallas. Mrs. Gray served as a WAC in the armed forces during WWII. She was an Avon Sales Representative for over twenty-eight years where she maintained her President’s Club Membership for many years. She was currently working as a house manager for Trinity Manor where her mentally challenged residents adored her. She was a member of the former Bethel Baptist Church and was presently attending the Heritage Church in Richardson with her daughter and her group home residents.
Survivors include her daughter, Carolyn Gray Shannon and grandson Jay Shannon and wife, Teresa all of Garland.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband on Oct. 2, 1998, and her brother, Lougene Burchett.
Pallbearers will be Jay Shannon, Mike Shannon, Robby Webb, Billy Kovacsy, Mike Sickels, and Gerry Spears.
