Ozell Brooks Ray Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Funeral Services for Ozell Brooks Ray, 93, of Rusk, will be at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home Chapel, with Brother Herring, and Brother Socia officiating. Burial will follow at Oakland Cemetery, Oakland, Texas. Mrs. Ray was born in Rusk on June 5, 1921 to the late Claude and Gertie Higgins. She retired from Rusk State Hospital Food Service. She was a member of Maranatha Worship Center. She loved to cook and spent her life serving the Lord. She is pre-deceased by her parents, husbands, Ben William Brooks, Robert Ray, sons Claud Thomas Brooks, Richard Brooks, grandson Gary Wayne Brooks, sisters Adelle Beard, Mozelle Langston, Marcelle Haney, brothers Jeff Higgins, and Bill Higgins. She is survived by sons Howard L. Brooks, Rusk, TX, Jimmy L. and his wife Julie Brooks, San Antonio, TX, Benny R. Brooks, Rusk, TX, Larry Joe and his wife Rita Brooks, Elkhart, TX, daughter Barbara and her husband Larry Bowermaster, Palestine, TX, sisters Pauline Love, Mesquite, TX, Della Christian, Tennessee, 16 grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. Visitation will be from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be Jody Gray, R.C. Langston, David Socia, Terry Lee Wheeler, Joey Brooks, L.C. Langston, Keith Brooks, D.J. Brooks. Honorary Pallbearers will be David Messersmith, Larry Bowermaster, Josh Price, Jimmy Brooks Jr., Clinton Bass, and Rodney Brooks.

Ozell Brooks Ray

June 5, 1921 - May 23, 2015