Nedaye Gray Potts

Nedaye Eppes Gray Potts passed away peacefully, surrounded by family and friends on Wednesday, the 26th of September, 2018. She was well loved and she loved well. Her exquisite physical beauty was no match for her glorious soul.

She was born on the 10th of December 1936, in Houston, Texas. Nedaye attended River Oaks Elementary, Lanier Junior High, and Lamar High School. Her treasured friendships made then remained steadfast to the end of her days. She was a Tri Delt at the University of Alabama, where she met the love of her life, Douglas Warren Potts. Throughout their 62-year marriage, they enjoyed so much together – entertaining, trips to the ranch, traveling the world, and rooting for the Crimson Tide during football season. She was a supremely devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend.

Nedaye was preceded in death by her parents, Nedaye Gray Hester and Clifford Harold Gray, Jr., her brother, Harold Randal Gray, her niece, Jennifer Gray Golick, and nephews, Harold Wayne Chambliss, Jr. and Michael Andrew Kamburis. Left to treasure her memory are her husband, Doug, daughters Allison Potts Anderson and Andrea Potts Snoddy and husband Jim, granddaughters Mary Stewart Anderson Clark and husband Cotton and Addie Anderson Winslow and husband Luke, and grandson John Douglas D’Angelo. Survivors also include her two great grandsons, William Gray Winslow and Benjamin Anderson Winslow, her sister, Linda Gray Chambliss and husband Harold, and many beloved sisters-in-law, nieces, and nephews.

She was a voracious reader and an expert at needlepoint. Nedaye was a proud member of the Saintly Stitchers of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church where she adored her stitching companions and personally completed four kneelers for the new church.

Nedaye was the consummate family historian. She worked diligently to obtain Texas and National historical markers for her great grandparents’ home, the first concrete house built in Houston. She was an active member of Presidential Families of America, The Jamestown Society, Colonial Order of the Crown, The National Society of Magna Carta Dames, Colonial Dames of America, Chapter VIII, Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of American Colonists, National Society of United States Daughters of 1812, Daughters of the Founders of Patriots, and Daughters of the Republic of Texas among others.

We are so grateful for our 30-year friendship of love and devotion with Cathy Alvarez and her deep friendship and love for Mary Thompson and Henry Taylor. We sincerely thank Dr. Holly Holmes, Dr. Mona Lisa Alattar, Pamela Wyatt, Roshaundra Hogan, Alice Moore, and the entire Blue Team staff of Houston Hospice for the rich, gentle loving care they provided during her illness.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from four o’clock this afternoon until six o’clock this evening Sunday, the 30th of September, in the library and grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

Prior to the memorial service, the family will have gathered for a private interment at South Park Cemetery in Pearland. Those honored to serve as pallbearers will be John Douglas D’Angelo, James Emmett Snoddy, III, Mark Vincent Kamburis, Marty Douglas Kamburis, Luke Andrew Winslow, Harold White Clark, III, and Jim Russ.

A memorial service is to be conducted at two o’clock in the afternoon on Monday, the 1st of October, in the Old Church of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, 717 Sage Road in Houston. Immediately following, all are invited to greet the family during a reception to be held in the nearby Bagby Parish Hall.

“Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure,

you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.”

In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions may be directed toward St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, 717 Sage Road, Houston, TX 77056; or Amazing Place, 3735 Drexel, Houston, TX 77027.