{"id":14112,"date":"2025-10-14T15:34:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=14112"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:34:41","slug":"gray-betty-stephens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/gray-betty-stephens\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray, Betty Stephens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Betty Lue Stephens Gray, born May 23, 1945, in Linden, to the late Waymon R. Stephens and Alice Hinson Stephens, passed away on Monday, August 18, 2025, at the age of 80.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-container w100 storyimage_centeralign\">\n<div class=\"imageDiv\">\n<p class=\"caption\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Betty worked in the life and health insurance business for 50 years and was a dedicated member of Antioch United Methodist Church in Leoma. She had a love for collecting antiques and will be remembered for her kind heart, generous spirit, and outgoing nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">She is survived by her son, Eric Easterling of Lawrenceburg, brother, George (GW) Stephens and wife Jane of Clarksville, nieces, Stephanie Stephens of Clarksville, Bendee Bess of Dickson, and Mary Kay Bauer of Wyandotte, Michigan; great-nephews, Raymond and Earl Bauer of Wyandotte, Tyler Mayes of Clarksville, and Evan Bess of Nashville, along with several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">She was preceded in death by her sons, Tony and Randall Seiber; daughter, Renee Gray Smith; brother, Davis Hensley; and sister, Irene Prieur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Visitation will be held on Thursday, August 21, 2025, from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Hohenwald. Funeral services will follow at 2:00 p.m. with Martha Davison officiating, with burial to follow in the Lewis County Memorial Gardens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to the: Antioch United Methodist Church, P.O Box 6, Leoma, TN 38468.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betty Lue Stephens Gray, born May 23, 1945, in Linden, to the late Waymon R. Stephens and Alice Hinson Stephens, passed away on Monday, August 18, 2025, at the age of 80. Betty worked in the life and health insurance business for 50 years and was a dedicated member of Antioch United Methodist Church in Leoma. She had a love&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/gray-betty-stephens\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2611,247],"tags":[3530,7181,763,250,64,144,1695,4829,276,343,341],"class_list":["post-14112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewiscountyherald","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","tag-bauer","tag-bess","tag-easterling","tag-gray","tag-hensley","tag-hinson","tag-mayes","tag-prieur","tag-seiber","tag-smith","tag-stephens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}