Linda Qualls Gray

Linda Qualls Gray, 52, resident of Arno Road in Franklin, died Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at Alive Hospice at St. Thomas Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday at Harpeth Hills Funeral Home, 9090 Highway 100, Nashville, with Rev. Jim Denning officiating. Burial will be in Santa Fe Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Friday from 5 - 8 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. until time of service at Harpeth Hills. Oakes & Nichols Funeral Directors are assisting the family with arrangements. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. She was born in Lewis County and reared in Perry County, the daughter of Paige Janette Bell Qualls of Lawrenceburg and the late Dr. Wiley Qualls. She was a graduate of Perry County High School and the University of Tennessee. In 1977 she married Alan Eugene Gray who preceded her in death November 10, 2000. Mrs. Gray was Branch Sales Manager at Bankers Life and Casualty. She was a member of First United Church of Christ in Nashville. In addition to her mother she is survived by a daughter, Kathryn Joan Gray of Franklin; a son, Samuel Alexander Gray of Franklin; one sister, Mrs. Jane Qualls (Kenney) Morton of Hohenwald; one brother, Wiley Wayne (Gina) Qualls of Lawrenceburg; and several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Doug Gray, Tom Kittrell, Dale DeMoss, Kenney Morton, Mike Hall and Stephen Dean. Memorials may be made to the Lance Armstrong Foundation, National Mail Processing Center, P. O. Box 6003, Albert Lea, Minnesota 56007 or Lungevity Foundation, 435 North LaSelle Street, Chicago, Illinois 69654.