Elizabeth Easterling Ferguson Gray, 90, died Sunday, November 16, 2025, at Delta Rehabilitation and Healthcare center in Cleveland. Services will be held Saturday, November 22, 2025, 1:00 PM at Williams and Lord Funeral Home in Ruleville, MS. Visitation will be held from 12:00 PM until service time at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Drew Cemetery. Rev. Larry Chouccoli will officiate the services.

Elizabeth was born in Golden, Mississippi, to Hoyle and Lela Easterling on October 17, 1935. She was a hairdresser for 23 years and then worked at the postal service at Parchman for 6 years. She then started a house cleaning business, which she did for many years. She loved to stay busy. She loved cooking, canning and working in her flower beds. She could cook or can anything and had the prettiest flowers that you've ever seen. Most of all she loved her family.

She is preceded in death by her parents Hoyle and Lela Easterling, her brothers, James, Charles and Lawrence Easterling, beloved grandson Shane Champion, and her late husband Ben Gray.

She is survived by her daughter, Lela Cynthia Sims of Drew, MS; grandson, Shannon Sims of Drew, MS; great granddaughter, Felicia Hutchinson of Ruleville, MS; and great great granddaughter, Lynlee of Ruleville, MS. She had two special nieces, Connie McKnight of Tillatoba, MS, and Alice Bright of Drew, MS;  special great niece, Tonya Winters; and great nephew, Robbie McKnight.

Pallbearers will be Buddy Winters, Robert McKnight, Jr, Robert McKnight, III, Pete Ferguson, Tony Champion, and Rod Parker.