Goldie Ray Mosley

Goldie Ray “Cooter” Mosley, age 88, passed away peacefully on October 26, 2025 at his home in Sardis, Alabama surrounded by his family. He was born March 31, 1937 and raised in Whitesboro, Alabama. He graduated from Sardis High School in 1955. Cooter then began his adult life in the trade industry in both construction and the spinning mill. From there he started his own construction crew in Detroit, Michigan. After being away from home for several years, he moved his family back to Alabama where he began a long and distinguished career in sales for several well-known companies including Hav-a-Tampa cigar and City Wholesale Grocery Company in both sales and management. All this while maintaining a family farm where they raised cattle and poultry. Cooter served Etowah County and Sardis as both a county commissioner and an elected member of the Sardis City Council. He was well known in his community not only for his charitable donations or the driving of “his blondes” but also his love and dedication to the people of Sardis. He was a proud member of the Masonic Lodge. In addition to his parents, Goldie and Kathryn Mosley, he is preceded in death by his brother Johnny Mosley and sister Betty Jean MacMahon. He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Marie; his brother Tommy (Judy) Mosley; his children, David (Susan) Mosley and daughter Debbie Mosley; his grandchildren Laurie (Dustin) Sampson, Matt Mosley, Anna Lewis, Katy (Josh) Henry, and Josh Mosley; five great-grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, October 29th at Etowah Memorial Chapel from 5 pm to 7 pm. His funeral service will be on Thursday, October 30th at Whitesboro Baptist Church with Bro. Joe Noojin, Bro. Alan Hallmark, Bro. Ken Cooper, and Bro. Ricky Haygood officiating. He will lie in state from 1 pm to 2 pm with the funeral to follow. He will be laid to rest at Whitesboro Cemetery. Pallbearers are Matt Mosley, Josh Henry, Steve Mosley, Jon Lewis, Jake Cooper and Randy Stanfield. Honorary pallbearers are the Mayor of Sardis City, Russell Amos, Sardis City Council, city employees and Sardis Police and Fire Departments. Special Thanks to our family caregiver, Marilyn Thomas, our Enhabit hospice team and Lindsay Martin, RN. I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one, I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun. Of happy memories that I leave when life is done. Arrangements entrusted to Etowah Memorial Chapel

Goldie Ray Mosley

March 31, 1937 - October 26, 2025