Mary Ellen Newman Gray

October 22, 1941 - February 4, 2021

Mrs. Mary Ellen Newman Gray, age 79, of Forrest City, died Thursday, February 4, 2021, at the Crossridge Hospital in Wynne. Her death came sudden and unexpected. Mrs. Gray was born October 22, 1941, in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was the daughter of Orville Robert Newman and Sarah Elizabeth Gavin Newman. She lived in St. Francis County most all of her life, was a housewife, and a Catholic. Mrs. Gray married Johnny T. Gray in 1971, and he preceded her in death in 2018. She is survived by three sons; Steve Gray, and wife, Stacy, of Austin, Arkansas, Tommy Gray, and wife, Sandra, of Colt, and Rob Gray, and wife, Kerri, of Edmond, Oklahoma, three daughters; Pat Coley, and husband, Darrell, of Checotah, Oklahoma, Ellen Jolly, and husband, Lance, of Colt, and Lisa Long, and husband, Shawn, of Moro, two brothers; Jimmy Newman of Portland, Oregon, and Bob Newman of Elk Grove, California, sixteen grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. She had one granddaughter, Kristy Marie Martin, who preceded her in death. Services for Mrs. Gray will be held Graveside, 10:00 A.M., Monday, at the Loughridge Cemetery in Colt. Stevens Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Memorials are to be made to the Blue Mountain College, 201 West Main St., Blue Mountain, Mississippi, 38610. You may log on to stevensfuneralhome.net for the online registry.