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Fern Gaines

1928 - 2017

BORN

1928

DIED

2017

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United Funeral Service, Inc.

700 State Highway 15 S

New Albany, Mississippi

Fern Gaines Obituary

Mary Fern Gray Gaines, 88, got her angel wings on Tuesday, March 21, 2017. She was born July 1, 1928 in Union County to Washie Franklin Gray and Zona Gilliam Gray. She loved working in the yard and raking leaves or anything to be outside. She was a member of Enterprise Church of Christ. She loved reading her Bible and singing.

Services will be 3:00 pm Friday, March 24, 2017 at United Funeral Service with Bro. Jay Tidwell officiating. Burial will be at Enterprise Cemetery. United Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.

She is survived by her daughter, Mary Gaines of Myrtle; 6 granddaughters; and 7 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Thomas Boyd Gaines; a son, Gale "Chief" Gaines; three sisters, Betty Benjamin, Jimmie Horn, and Maveline Coffey; and a brother, Johnny Gray.

Visitation will be Friday, March 24, 2017 from 1:30 pm until 3:00 pm at United Funeral Service.

For online condolences please visit www.unitedfuneralservice.com

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal on Mar. 23, 2017.

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