In loving memory of
Beverly June Gray
March 7, 1954 – July 13, 2025
Services to be held on Saturday, August 9, 2025
Homegoing Service (Live Stream)
2:00 PM Pacific
Inglewood Cemetery Mortuary
3801 W. Manchester Boulevard
Inglewood, CA
Entombment (Live Stream)
3:15 PM Pacific
Inglewood Park Cemetery
Grandview Mausoleum
Repast
5:30 PM Pacific Time
16114 Virginia Avenue
Belflower, CA 90706
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Beverly June Gray Obituary
Sunrise: March 7, 1954
Sunset: July 13, 2025
Beverly June Gray was born on March 7, 1954, in Las Vegas, Nevada, to the union of Ruffus Gray and Johnnie Gray. Beverly embraced Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior at a young age. Her mother imparted a Christ-centric lifestyle in Beverly and her siblings. As a child, Beverly found solace in Bible study. She chose to attend summer school as she liked school and was bored otherwise. Her summers were also filled with active pursuits, including softball, swimming, and riding her beloved Honda 150 motorcycle.
Beverly graduated from Valley High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1972. She relocated to Reno to pursue her college degree at the University of Nevada, Reno. She transferred to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1974 and completed her Bachelor’s degree in Education in 1977. Beverly was characterized by her athleticism and exceptional competitiveness. She was a volleyball, basketball, softball, track, and roller derby player, competing with the Los Angeles Thunderbirds Junior League Roller Derby Team while in California.
God blessed Beverly with two children, Reginald Courtney Gray in 1971 and KaDeidra Luella Franklin in 1978. Beverly packed up her two children, as a single parent, and relocated to Long Beach, California in 1979. She later purchased a home and settled in Compton, California. She resided in Compton until May 2025, when she moved to Bel Air, Maryland, to be with her son, Reginald, daughter-in-law, Christy, and granddaughter, Courtney.
Despite the challenges of being a single parent, Beverly remained steadfast in her faith, allowing it to guide her life decisions. She consistently maintained that she made the decision to raise her children in a manner similar to how her mother raised her. In December 1979, she joined Texaco Oil Refinery (now known as Marathon) as an operator.
Beverly nurtured a passion for cooking and fishing. She cherished spending time with her children and began taking them fishing on the rocky shores of Long Beach. As KaDeidra grew older, she introduced her to bowling, which they both enjoyed regularly.
Beverly, a dedicated mother, found innovative ways to balance working rotating shifts with caring for her children. When she had to work during KaDeidra’s after school activites, Beverly would enlist the help of one of her aunts. When KaDeidra became a single mother, Beverly stepped in to help with Anajé, but the demands of both their full-time jobs necessitated additional assistance. This is when Sara, Beverly’s best friend and sister, took on the role of “Auntie” and assumed the necessary responsibilities. While Beverly never indulged in an extravagant lifestyle, she lived a life that brought her the greatest joy. She raised her children, assisted in raising her granddaughter, supported her mother, and provided for her younger brother Dennis after her mother was called home by the Lord.
When asked if there were any lonely periods in her life, Beverly responded, “When she lost her father, mother, Paul and Dennis, and when her son and daughter fell ill.” Nevertheless, she emphasized, “I have experienced both highs and lows in life, but God was there to provide me with guidance and protection.”
Beverly built a 42-year career as an oil refinery operator, before retiring. Although she missed working, she cherished her new daily routine of going for coffee or shopping in the mornings and driving to Shoreline Drive in the evenings to fish. She and Sara traveled back and forth to Las Vegas to visit her mother and prepare for holiday celebrations. After a brief medical illness, Beverly passed away on July 13, 2025 in Bel Air, Maryland with her family present.
Preceding her in death were her father: Ruffus Gray, mother: Johnnie Gray, stepfather: Bob Melton, three older brothers, one being Paul Gray, and her younger brother: Dennis Gray. Beverly is survived by her brother, Alfred James, and her close friend, Sara Washington, who is thought of as her sister. Beverly leaves behind two children: Dr. Reginald Courtney Gray (Dr. Christy Deloris Gray) of Bel Air, Maryland, and KaDeidra Luella Franklin of Las Vegas, Nevada. She also leaves four grandchildren: Reginald Courtney Gray, Jr., Quintin Desmond Gray, Sr., Anajé Breaun Johnson, and Courtney Deloris Gray. She leaves several great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and a host of relatives and friends who will cherish her memory.
“For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.” (Romans 14:8 ESV)
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Gonna miss you my friend, save me a seat next to you we got some more laughs to have. I won’t say goodbye but I’ll see you later!!
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Bless your soul Grandma I know you are with God in heaven and all our loved ones who has been waiting for us all to return to the father one day
I love you and I will miss you !
I know I will see you tomorrow as the Bible says
2 Peter 3:8
King James Version
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Love you grandma
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You will be missed🙏 I love you.
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You will be missed.
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Our prayers and love are with you and Family!🙏❤️
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The service was beautiful. Although I only met Ms. Gray a few times she was always pleasant and from my brief interactions I knew she cared about people. I know that she is in a better place. Although sometimes our heart might be wondering because of the heartache take solace in the love she had for you and the love you had for her those memories will carry you through the rough patches in life.
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Praying for you’ll and deepest condolences!
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With deepest condolences 🙏. Girtha Stout
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I’m so sorry for your loss I wish I could be there. I continue to pray for you and family my brother I love you so much
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Love you Bev!!!
Thanks for being a shoulder to lean on in difficult times. Gonna miss those conversations at work, you were funny.
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We share our deepest sympathies in the loss of Mom Gray. Your family continues to be in our prayers! We pray that the GOD of compassion provides strength, support and encouragement over the weeks, months and even years ahead! Love & Blessings!
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Am so sorry for what has happened to you sir may the good lord have mercy on us may God continue to protect us from any bad news that’s coming to us again 🙏🏾
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Mama,
First and foremost, I want to thank you for being my mom. You’ve been my rock, my protector, and my guide. You’ve raised me, provided for me, and helped me become the man I am today. And you’ve always trusted and depended on God to guide your every step in doing so.
I recall you mentioning on multiple occasions that you were confused by this situation and why it was happing to you. You expressed your deep faith in God and your continuous prayers for more time on earth. While I deeply miss and love you, I must remember that God’s ways are beyond our ways and our comprehension. As Isaiah 55:8-9 (ESV) beautifully puts it, everything that He does is for reasons that we are incapable of understanding.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Everything that God does is beyond anything we can ask, think or imagine. To be absence from the body, means that you are present with the Lord, because I know in my hearts of hearts that you are a child of God. (2 Corinthians 5:8)
In addition to the pain and suffering that you were stricken with, God spared you from the current state of this world, we truly are in the “last days.”
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.” (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
One day, I too as a child of God, will be present with the Lord, you, my father, my stepmother, my grandparents, and all the other Saints. I love and adore you immensely.
Your beloved child, Reginald
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Beverly you will be missed. We didn’t see much of each other when you left Las Vegas, but you, Paul and Dennis were the best cousins to me. Fun times in 4-mile. Rest in peace.
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Beverly was the mother of my nephew a very beautiful,friendly and kind person to be around and talk to she will be missed. RIP
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Sending love and prayers to the family knowing Tt Beverly was a pleasure even though she wasn’t real blood you would never know that she wasn’t always fun and loving and blast to be around God always picks the best flowers rest well you will be missed