My Maw passed away on August 24, 2010. She was a very special lady.
She was 81 years old and she had been married to my Grandaddy for 61 years!!
This is when me and Maw first met!
Four generations...
She was a good snuggler.
I am so happy I got a chance to bring a smile to my Maw's face!
We will miss Maw so very much! We know that she is with Jesus and having lots of fun spending time with him. She is a wonderful example of how to serve others!
She made the best grilled cheese and everything else for that matter!
Thelma DuBose Bray
March 1, 1929-August 24, 2010
Mrs. Thelma DuBose Bray, 81, of Lake City, passed away Tuesday evening, August 24, 2010, at Haven Hospice following an extended illness. A native of Glenwood, Alabama, Mrs. Bray was the daughter of the late Homer and Edna DuBose. She was a member of the 1947 graduating class of Luverne High School in Luverne, Alabama, and also an accounting graduate of the Massey Business College located in Montgomery, Alabama. She married James Bray in 1949, and together they moved to Lake City in 1950 from Homestead, Florida. Mrs. Bray did bookkeeping for Mathis Welding and then for the City of Lake City until retiring. She was an accomplished seamstress and loved to read and garden. Mrs. Bray was a charter member of Parkview Baptist Church and was extremely active in her church until her ill health. She was a Sunday school teacher for more than sixty years and had served as President of the Women’s Mission Organization at Parkview. Mrs. Bray was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Douglas DuBose, and a sister, Frances Dunaway. She is survived by her husband of sixty-one years, James Bray and her children, Brenda Smithey and Beth Bullard and her husband Gene all of Lake City; and two sisters and their husbands, Martha and Rudy Smith of Manning, South Carolina, and Diane and Roger Brunner of New York, New York. Five grandchildren also survive: Jim Smithey, Leah Smithey, Kyle Smithey, Brad Bullard, Della Jones and her husband Kyle, and her great-grandson, Hayden Jones. Funeral services for Mrs. Bray will be conducted at 4:00 P.M., Friday, August 27, 2010, at Parkview Baptist Church with Rev. Mike Tatem officiating. Interment will follow in Memorial Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 4:00-6:00 Thursday evening at the Parkview Baptist Church. Flowers are welcome; but should you choose to send a memorial the family requests that they be directed to The Thelma Bray Memorial Mission Fund in care of Parkview Baptist Church, 268 N.W. Lake Jeffery Road, Lake City, FL 32055 or to a charity of your choice.
Your Maw was an amazing woman that I feel very blessed to have known.
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