Beth Adella Gray
Beth Adella Gray (Code)
June 7, 1943 - May 30, 2024
Beth Adella Gray, of Calgary, passed away on Thursday, May 30, 2024, a few days short of her 81st birthday.
Beth will be greatly missed by her husband of 58 years, Ralph Gray; son, Mark (Stephanie) Gray; daughter, Denise (Jason) Gray-Lozinski; and grandsons, Evan (Laura Schnell) Lozinski, Derek Lozinski, Rhett Gray, and Vance Gray. She will also be remembered by sisters, Edith (Ed) Beaudoin and Myrna Smigelski; special “double cousins”, Olive Skakun and Myrtle (Charlie) Caldwell; sister-in-law, Donna Isaac; brother-in-law, Barry Gray; and numerous nieces, nephews, relatives, and friends.
Beth Adella Gray (Code), the youngest daughter of Noah and Adella Code, was born on June 7, 1943, in Cereal Alberta. She grew up with her two sisters, Edith and Myrna, on the family farm near New Brigden, Alberta. After graduation from New Brigden School, Beth moved to Calgary and went to Calgary Business College. She then went to work in the Directory Department for Alberta Government Telephones.
Beth Code and Ralph Gray met on a blind date at a Calgary Stampeders vs Saskatchewan Roughriders football game. They married in Oyen, Alberta on October 9,1965, and started their life together in Edmonton. They welcomed their son Mark on March 22, 1966, followed by their daughter Denise on April 26,1968.
There were several moves back and forth along Alberta Highway 2 - in 1969 to Calgary, 1976 back to Edmonton, and in 1981 one final move returned to Calgary to the house in the Temple neighbourhood, home for the past 43 years, until the final move from Peter Lougheed Hospital to the hospice at Agecare Skypointe.
Beth worked at home taking care of the family. She enjoyed reading, doing crosswords, sewing, volunteering at the kids’ schools, went door-to-door doing census taking, was a Girl Guide leader for one year, and worked as an Elections Officer in Civic and Provincial elections. As Mark and Denise became more independent, Beth went to work in 1982, as a clerk in the Historical Searches department of the Alberta Land Titles Registry in downtown Calgary. She continued there until the privatization of that department in 1997.
Beth added mother-in-law to her resume in 1992 when Denise married Jason Lozinski, and Mark married Stephanie Malachowski in 2000. She was a proud grandmother to her four grandsons: Evan and Derek Lozinski, and Rhett and Vance Gray.
Beth and Ralph enjoyed traveling - there were many camping trips, starting with a tent trailer, then a truck and camper, and finally 5th wheel trailers. Destinations included the western Canadian provinces, across Canada as far as Niagara Falls, north to the Yukon and Alaska, and through the USA down to Arizona and California. There were trips to the Maritimes and thrown in there was some more exotic travel including Hawaii, Mexico, Barbados, Australia and the Cook Islands.
A Celebration of Beth’s Life will take place on Saturday, July 13, 2024, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Sedalia Hall.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations in Beth’s memory can be made to the Alberta Children’s Hospital
To view and share stories, memories, and photos of Beth with the family, please visit www.choicememorial.com.