Service will be held on Saturday, August 13, 2022, at 11:00 am at Heritage Chapel Funeral Home. Visitation will start at 9:30 am. Interment will be at Tuscaloosa Memorial Park immediately following the service.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Thomas A. Colvin, father Claude Ryan, and mother Jennie Bell Sutton Ryan, brothers Curtis Ryan, and Donald Ryan.
She is survived by her son Tommy Colvin (Samone), grandchildren, Ryan Colvin (Allis Hamby) and Leah Colvin, sisters Lois Lawrence and Betty Terry, and brother David Ryan.
Gay Colvin was born on July 29, 1936, to Claude and Jennie Bell Ryan. She graduated from Holt High School in 1954. She married Thomas A. Colvin in June of 1958. They had one son, Tommy, born in 1960. Gay worked various bookkeeping jobs in the Tuscaloosa area before retiring as the bookkeeper at Tuscaloosa County High School in 1999. She was a faithful member of Holt Baptist Church for seven decades before moving her membership to Taylorville Baptist Church.
Pallbearers are Ryan Colvin, Barry Lawrence, Mark Lawrence, Steve Terry, Scott Ryan, Dave Ryan, C.D. Elliot, Hubert Colvin, and George Colvin.
Honorary pallbearers are Paul Gartman, Mary Ann Perrigin, Daisy McAlpine, Barbara Alawine, Marilyn Foster, Wendy Wells, Patsy Lawrence, Sharron Stone, Miriam Aycock, Brenda Justiss, Eleanor Bush, Ronnie and BeBe Jan Lett, Susan and Greg Hamrick and staff at Hamrick Highlands Assisted Living, staff at Aspire Physical Recovery Center of West Alabama, and Joy Sunday school class at Taylorville Baptist Church.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations are made to Taylorville Baptist Church or Hospice of West Alabama.
Heritage Chapel Funeral Home in Tuscaloosa, Al Directing.
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