- Date Of Birth: January 28, 1938
- Date Of Death: August 23, 2022
- State: Georgia
Mrs. Mary Frances Shearin Ray, age 84, of Gaylesville, AL, died Tuesday, August 23, 2022, at Riverview Medical Center in Gadsden, AL.
Mrs. Ray was born January 28, 1938, in Chattanooga, TN, daughter of the late Edward and Edna Mathis Shearin.
She is now in the presence of the Lord that she spent many hours talking to. We are reminded of the “Amazing Grace” song’s line “I once was lost but now am found…was blind but now I see.” We are left to wonder what beauty that her blind eyes are now seeing. This beautiful, loving, sweet lady will be missed, but the love she has touched others with will continue. She would want the reflections of Christ in her to be passed on to her family and friends to know that her labor was not in vain. She has finished the race the Lord placed for her and is now sitting at His feet. One of her favorite Bible verses was Isaiah 55:8; “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.”
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Alvin Junior Ray; daughter, Joyce Battles; son, Lamar Addison; sisters, Peggy Kitchens, Christine Freeman, and Sue Smith; and a grandson, Stephen Addison.
Survivors include her sons, Michael (Tricia) Ray, Darryl (Carla) Ray, Randy Ray; daughters, Vicki Robbins, Pamela Porter, Kimberly (Michael) Reynolds; grandchildren, Whitney Miller, Russell Addison, Koby Addison, Leah Hairrell, Chris Battles, Colton Robbins, Michael Reynolds, Peyton Reynolds, Natalie Ray, Lyla Ray, Isaac Ray, Owen Ray, Tyler Ray, and Jamie Ray; and several great-grandchildren.
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