JAMES  HUBERT  "OZ"  GRAY,  73 years of age of Drennen, went home to be with the Lord Thursday April 25, 2024.  He was the son of the late Hawley and Goldie McClung Gray and was born at Poe, September 18, 1950.  Oz was a retired minister and former pastor at Victor, Cowen, Belington and Pierson Chapel Church at Whitewater.  He was a former truck driver for Shelton Trucking at Drennen for twenty years.  Oz loved to preach and enjoyed hunting with his family.

He was also preceded in death by his first wife Betty Jo Branham Gray, daughter Jody Lynn Gray and sister Dorothy Gray.

Surviving:

Wife                Helen Peyatt Gray

Son                 Jamie Lee Gray (Alicia)                  Eleanore

Stepson         Kenneth Martin                                Craigsville

Stepdaughters.

Marie Boggs (Wally)                        Fairmont

Shelia Martin                                    Calvin

Carol Talbert (Tim)                           North Carolina

Brother           Paul Gray (Angie)                            Mt. Lookout

Sisters

Cecilia Hanks (David)

Debbie Brown                                   all of Poe

Brenda Willis                                    Drennen

12 Grandchildren including, Brandon and Maleigha Gray, Thor Young and Garrison Harrah

3 Great Grandchildren

Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday April 30th in the Bethel Church at Poe with Pastor Paul Gray officiating.  Burial will follow in the Branham Cemetery at Enon. Friends may call at the Waters Funeral Chapel in Summersville from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday evening.

Condolences: watersfuneralchapel.com