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 was a homemaker and a member of Pleasant Valley # 1 Baptist Church. She loved the Lord Jesus Christ and she loved her family and friends very much. She was so gentle and always had a listening ear. She was always willing to help anyone in need and will be greatly missed by all who knew her. She was the glue that held her family together and was a beautiful reflection of the Lord that she loved.

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, Whitey 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.

Graveside and interment services will be held at 3:30 P.M. (E.S.T.) Friday, August 26, 2022, at Mount Zion Cemetery with Rev. Briggs King and Rev. Ronald Berry officiating. Pallbearers will be Russell Addison, Koby Addison, Tyler Ray, Chris Battles, Michael Reynolds, and T.J. Miller.

Mrs. Ray will be in state at Mason Funeral Home and the family will receive friends from 2:00 until 3:00 P.M. (E.S.T.) on Friday.

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Arrangements are provided by Mason Funeral Home- Summerville, GA.