Mary Evelyn McDowell

Funeral service for Mary Evelyn McDowell, 88, will be 1 p.m. Friday, June 19, 2015, at Gray Brown-Service Mortuary with the Rev. Dewayne New officiating. Burial will follow at Anniston Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends on Friday from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Mrs. McDowell passed away at her home Tuesday night. Survivors include her husband of 60 years, Calvin Harper McDowell; children, Don Bryant (Linda), Harold Bryant and Jan Brim (Jack); grandchildren, Kent Bryant (Kara), Marcus Bryant, Jennifer Brim Craig (Stephen) and Julia Brim Parris (Tyler); great-grandchildren, Kinley and Kayla Bryant and Ella Craig; several nieces and nephews. Mrs. McDowell is preceded in death by her previous husband, Harold Clark Bryant; her parents, C.A. and Jewell Gilbreath and her brother, Eldridge Gilbreath. Mrs. McDowell was a longtime member of First Baptist Church of Weaver.