Mrs. Zilpha Gray Died in Greenville; Services Wednesday Mrs. Zilpha Caroline Gray, eighty-year-old Celeste resident, died at 9:30 PM Monday, January 10, 1966, in a Greenville hospital. Services were at 10:00 AM Wednesday in Coker-Mathews-Peters Funeral Home Chapel in Greenville with the Revs. Bob Layman of Celeste and U. C. Broach of Leonard officiating. Burial was in Grove Hill Cemetery near Leonard. Mrs. Gray was born July 29, 1885 in Marshall County, Tennessee, the daughter of W. B. Sikes and Celia Ann Powell Sikes. She came to Texas as a small girl, living in Fannin County until 1943, when she moved to Celeste. She married Otto Gray on February 11, 1904. He preceded her in death on May 23, 1942. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Lee McCorstin of Celeste and Mrs. George A. Bickham of Fort Worth; one son, James E. Gray of Garland; two brothers, J. B. Sikes of San Angelo and Green Sikes of Crowell; six grandchildren, including James Richard Gray, who was reared by her; and five great-grandchildren. Pallbearers were Carl Lacy, Morris Babers, Calvin Stapleton, Ernest Brazil, Jacque Bickham, and Don Armstrong. (January 14, 1966, The Celeste Courier)