Eloise Gray : Obituary

Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville announces funeral services for Mrs. Eloise Addington Gray, age 90, of Blairsville, Georgia, who passed away on Friday, April 20, 2012 in North Carolina.

Mrs. Gray was born in Union County, Georgia, on November 11, 1921, a daughter of the late Herman T. Addington and the late Laura Belle Jones Addington. She was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church of Blairsville. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Gerald Gray, who passed away in 2009; and a sister, Ruth Addington Walker, who passed away this year.

Eloise will be greatly missed by all, especially by her family: daughter and son-in-law, Jerry Sue and Terry Bowersox, of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina; daughter and son-in-law, Anna Lee and Wayne Huffman, of Herndon, Virginia; grandchildren: David S. Bowersox; Dianna L. Dell; Gary R.Huffman; Gregory T.Huffman; nine great grandchildren; and sister: Regenia Addington Nichols and her husband Quince, of Atlanta; many other relatives and friends also survive.

Funeral services have been scheduled for Thursday, April 26, 2012, at 12 noon, in The Rock Chapel of First Baptist Church of Blairsville, with Rev. Danny Parris officiating. Special music will be presented by Minister of Music R. Terry Hooper. The following gentlemen have been selected to serve as pallbearers: David Bowersox, Terry Bowersox, Anthony Hamby, Gary Huffman, Gregory Huffman, Wayne Huffman, James Postell, Jeffrey Walker, and James Williams. Serving as honorary escort to the family will be Dianna Dell and William Ferguson. Burial will be in Union Memory Gardens Cemetery in Blairsville.

The family will meet with friends on Thursday, April 26, at 11:00 a.m., for one hour prior to the beginning of the service.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville.