John 14
¹   Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
²   In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
³   And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
⁴   And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
⁵   Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
⁶   Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
⁷   If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

1 Corinthians 13
¹²   For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
¹³   And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

    Joyce C. Gray, 65, of Mexico, died at 5:09 p.m. Wednesday December 24, 2003, at Audrain Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Pickering Funeral Home with Rev. Larry Baitinger officiating. Visitation will be Friday from 6 – 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Gray was born May 16, 1938, in Doniphan, Missouri, a daughter of Haskel Baron and Almar Elizabeth (Bridgmon) Cagle. On Feb. 4, 1955, in St. Louis she married Van Lloyd Gray who survives.

She was a member of the First United Pentecostal Church in Mexico.

In addition to her husband survivors include her mother Almar Cagle of Mexico; one son, Rick Gray and wife Sandy, Mexico; two daughters, Gail Woolridge and husband Bob, Mexico, and Debbie Kidwell, Fulton; one brother, Loyd Cagle and wife Rosemary, Chesterfield; six grandchildren, Danielle Johnson, Christina Wyss, Jennifer Gray, Derek Johnson, Heather Wyss, and Holly Owen; and four great grandchildren.

In addition to her father, an infant daughter and one brother, Robert, preceded her in death.

Memorials may be given to Audrain Home Health. They may be sent in care of Pickering Funeral Home, 403 N. Western, Mexico, MO 65265.

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