Grace Lee Stallings Etheridge

Grace Lee Stallings Etheridge, 88, of Birmingham, Al formerly of Albany, GA, passed away, September 24, 2026 . Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. at Floral Memory Gardens. Mr. Ross Powell will officiate.

Grace was preceded in death by her husband, William Thomas Ethridge, her parents, Ray Marvin Stallings and Ethel Irene Carter Stallings and a brother, R. M. Stallings.

Born in Gadsden, AL, Mrs. Ethridge was a graduate of Gadsden High School and a graduate of Sanford College in Birmingham, AL After Grace and Tom were married they taught school in Demopolis, AL, Orlando, FL, La Grange, GA and settled in Albany, GA where they lived for forty years and  taught school for twenty five years. Grace retired as director of the math lab at Westover High School. She was a member of Sherwood Baptist Church.

Tom and Grace enjoyed going to Lake Eufaula in the summertime and camping out. Grace would read books while Tom fished.

Survivors include her siblings, Jere H. Stallings and his wife Dianne Stallings and Ruth Stallings Wise all of Birmingham, AL and a number of nieces and nephews..