Eleanor Osborn Gay

ELEANOR O. GAY Eleanor Elaine Osborn Gay, of Hogansville, died Wednesday, August 29, 2012, at Hospice LaGrange. The funeral service will be conducted at 12 noon, Friday, August 31, in the Chapel of Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home in Hogansville. The Reverend Wesley Boatman and the Reverend Clinton Hughes will officiate and interment will be in Myrtle Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 until 8 Thursday night and from 11 until 12 Friday morning. Born January 5, 1937, in Newnan, Mrs. Gay was the daughter of the late Susie Pauline McWhorter Osborn and Harry Wilson Osborn. She was raised in Grantville and graduated from Grantville High School in 1956, which was the final graduating class before the school's closure. She married Rex B. Gay and moved to Lexington, TX after he finished his service in the Army. Mr. Gay was electrocuted in a job accident in Caldwell, TX and Mrs. Gay then moved to Hogansville to live with her mother and brother. She was employed at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith and at Dean, Witter and Reynolds in Atlanta for 20 years, and then was employed by the Troup County Clerk of Court as a deputy clerk for the child support recovery unit, retiring in 2003 after 19 years of service. She was Baptist all of her life, being a former member of Grantville First Baptist Church and a member of First Baptist Church of Hogansville at time of her death. She was a member and chaplain of the LaGrange Chapter of the Red Hat Society. Survivors include her brothers and sisters, Wayne and Marie Osborn of Byron, Sandra and Harold Hambrick of Centerville, Carol and Raymond Simmons of Warner Robins, Kay and Bobby Poole and Gary Osborn, all of Kathleen; sister in-law, Tracey Osborn Davis of Warner Robins; her cats, Lindy and Libby; nieces; nephews, and many special friends. She was preceded in death by her brother, Ronald Osborn, and sister, Marion Osborn. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to West Georgia Hospice or to the Benevolent Fund of First Baptist Church of Hogansville. Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Visitation: from 6 until 8 Thursday night, August 30th, and from 11 until 12 Friday morning, August 31st, at Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home Services: 12 Noon, Friday, August 31st, in the Chapel of Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home Interment: Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Hogansville