Funeral service for Mary Sue Gray, age 87, of Cullman, is Monday, January 13, 2025, at 11 a.m. at Cullman Funeral Home Chapel, with Josh Duncan officiating. Visitation will be held at the chapel from 10-11 a.m. and interment will follow at Cullman Memory Gardens.
Cullman Funeral Home is honored to serve the family.
Sue was born on January 3, 1938, to Ellis Breeding and Leatha Columbus Henderson Breeding. She passed away on Monday, January 6, 2025, at Princeton Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, John Gray; children, Chuck Nixon, Ricky Nixon, Bobbie Shedd, and Wanda Walsh; grandchild, Adam Pitts; her brothers and sisters.
She is survived by her daughter, Debra (Kert) Parker; grandchildren, Josh Duncan, Gerald McDonald, Jenny Rodgers, Luc Nixon, Jacolby Nixon, Christina (Jason) Cluxton, Tosha Rodgers, Kelsey (Matthew) Clenney, Lexi (Luke) Snider, Raven Nixon; great-grandchildren, Mason Hayes, Taylor (Jesse) Olin, Sadie McDonald, Hana McDonald, Cameron (Autumn) Glasscock, Madeline Cluxton, Jaxon Cluxton, Skylar Rodgers, Alyaah Akers, Cullen Adams, Mathew Clenney, Jr., John Baker Snider; and many great-great grandchildren.
Sue loved old country music and bluegrass. She loved to “people watch” and she really loved to make people laugh. She enjoyed reading a good book and she truly loved being with her family and they did her as well. She was a lifetime member of the Moose Lodge and enjoyed being social with others.
The following is lovingly written by Sue’s family:
Mamaw/Nanny was one of the strongest women I’ve ever met. She was funny and loved to ruffle some feathers. She endured things in her life that would have broken most anyone else. She loved her kids and would walk through fire for all of them, but she didn’t want them to know that because she wanted them to be equally as strong. Her heart was tender, but she presented it with a hard exterior. She was independent and looked at help as a handout, which she never needed, because truly she always made her own way. She was absolutely amazing and would have your back no matter if she agreed with what you were doing. She was love and the rock of this family and we are all blessed to have her DNA in us. If we can be half of what she was, we have truly accomplished something.
Serving as pallbearers will be Mrs. Gray’s family.
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