Dobie Gray

Dobie Gray, age 71, of Nashville, Tennessee, passed away on Tuesday, December 6, 2011. Dobie was born on July 26, 1940, in Simonton, Texas. Dobie is survived by sisters, Vivian Jean Outley (H.L.-deceased), Arthurine Brown Williams (James) and Naomi Mason (Earl-deceased); brother, Lee Clifton Brown; and a host of nieces and nephews, great nieces and great nephews and other family and friends. Friends are cordially invited to the Funeral Service at Two O'clock the afternoon of Thursday, December 15, 2011 at Brentwood Baptist Church, 7777 Concord Road, Brentwood, TN 37027, with escorted cortege to Woodlawn Memorial Park for gentle placement there. Dobie was an award winning songwriter, producer and artist, whose music knew no boundaries. He will be missed by many loving friends who's lives he so profoundly touched, and will live on in the hearts of the millions of fans he reached through his music. In lieu of customary floral tributes, memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105, where Dobie will leave his gifts, or the Tennessee School for the Blind, 115 Stewarts Ferry Pike, Nashville, TN 37214. Friends are cordially invited to gather to remember Dobie at Woodlawn Roesch-Patton Funeral Home from Three O'clock until Eigth O'clock the evening of Wednesday, December 14 or from Twelve noon until the beginning of services at Two O'clock at Brentwood Baptist Church on the afternoon of Thursday, December 15, 2011. Woodlawn Roesch-Patton Funeral Home, 660 Thompson Lane, Nashville, Tennessee, 37204, 615-383-4754.