Margaret Lucille Fuller Gray

Margaret Fuller Gray died on October 20, 2026. She was born in Selma, Alabama, on January 31, 1929, to the late Dr. John A. Fuller and Ruth McCullough Fuller.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 77 years, Charles A. Gray, and her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Billie Fitzsimmons.

She is survived by her daughter, Margaret Gray (Kent) Cogle; her grandchildren, Rebecca Ruth Richards, Amy Miller (Bobby) Rinehart, Callis Cogle (Wesley) Blake, and Douglas Gray (Anne Larkin) Cogle; and her great-grandchildren, Charles Grady Woodall, Mary Kaitlin Woodall, Daniel Brady (Alea) Woodall, Fuller Elizabeth Blake, Matthew Douglas Cogle, Emily James Blake, Margaret Anne Cogle, and Charles Paul Blake.

Mrs. Gray graduated from Albert G. Parrish High School in 1946 and from Birmingham-Southern College, where she majored in English. She was a longtime member of Christ the King CEC Church in Selma, a lifelong member of the Federation of Music Study Clubs, and a member of the Daughters of the American Colonists and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Graveside services will be held at New Live Oak Cemetery on Friday, October 23, 2026, at 10:00 a.m., with Fr. Bracken Ingram and Pastor Jonathan Shanks officiating and Lawrence Brown-Service Funeral Home of Selma directing.

Pallbearers will be Gray Cogle, Matthew Cogle, Wesley Blake, Dobbins Cosby, Will Cosby, Reid Zuelzke, and Rand Smith.

A note from her daughter, Margaret: Our family is eternally grateful to the staff at Cedar Hill Assisted Living and Diversicare Park Place Nursing Home for their care of my mother. We also extend our heartfelt thanks to her devoted sitters, Lorece Lemon, Janice Johnson, Mary Burgess, and Annie McMillian, for the years of dedicated care and compassion they so generously gave her.