Billy Wyatt Gay, Jr.

Billy Wyatt Gay, Jr., 65, of Smiths Station, AL passed away on Friday, July 12, 2024.

A Service of Remembrance will be held at 2:00 PM (EST) on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in the Chapel of Vance Brooks Funeral Home, Phenix City, AL with Rev. Derrick Millirons officiating. The family is requesting those who wish, to wear an Alabama Football shirt to the service. He will be placed with his mom, Lydia, at Lakeview Memory Gardens following the service. 

Mr. Gay was born March 17, 1959, in Paris, France son of the late Billy Wyatt Gay, Sr. and Lydia Frehechoux Gay Boykin. He was a carpenter and flooring man by trade. Billy found great satisfaction in finishing a job with excellence. He enjoyed fishing and being outdoors, however his favorite things were Alabama Football and watching NASCAR. Billy loved his family and friends. To him if you were his true friend, you were family. For him a great weekend was enjoying Alabama Football with his family around him.

We will remember his free spirit, strong devotion to family and willingness to give to others in times of need. We will miss him, but he is forever in our hearts.

Mr. Gay was preceded in death by his parents, Billy, Sr. and Lydia Boykin and a brother-in-law, Paul Hicks.

Survivors include his five siblings, Teresa Hopper (Bill), Rabun Gap, GA, Linda Hicks, Dothan, AL, Angela Albertson (Darren), Ft. Mitchell, AL, John Gay (Lisa) and Todd Hudgins; ten nieces and nephews, Michael and Lori Hopper, Johnathan and Dakota Albertson, Shaina Lewis, Claudia and Melody Gay, Ivey Leah Hudgins, Michelle Owens and Stacey Albright; numerous great-nieces and nephews and friends.