Julia Self
Posted: October 4, 2017
STARKVILLE — Julia Ann Gray Self, 101, died Oct. 3, 2017, at her residence. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Welch Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Allen Dees officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to services. She was preceded in death by her parents, Thomas Carroll Gray and Dell Edwards Gray; husband, Ellis Matthews Self; siblings, William Guy Gray, Thomas Carroll Gray Jr., John Franklin Gray, Sam Fitzgerald Gray, Howard Fredrick Gray and Robert Lee Gray Sr. She is survived by her daughter, Judy Carol Buster of Hoover, Alabama; sons, Preston Self and Edwin Self, both of Starkville; sister, Francesca Dell Gray Laufer of Annandale, Virginia; brothers, James Moore Gray of West Point and Stanley Randolph Gray of Brooksville; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to The Gideons, PO Box 669, Starkville, MS 39760; Bethesda Baptist Church, 1189 Bethesda Road, Crawford, MS 39743; or Palmer Home for Children, PO Box 746, Columbus, MS 39703.