Biography of Thomas G. Gray, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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Thirty-four years of successful drug business operation in Forrest City, and on
the corner of Izard and Broadway for 15 years. Thomas G. Gray was born and
reared in Forrest City, was a graduate of Forrest City High School, and latter
attended Quachita College. In 1920, the Gray brothers had an opportunity to
return their hometown and purchase the old City Drug Store, then owned and
operated by Ed Neal on Front Street, where the Mosely Furniture Co. is located
now. For eighteen years they operated as City Drug Store, and in Sept. of 1938,
Thomas Gray founded the Palace Drug Store. Mr. & Mrs. Gray are members of the
Baptist Church and have two daughters, Mrs. Fred (Jane) McMurray and Ruth Ann,
and a son Joe, who is associated with his father in the business. Mrs. Gray is
the former Grace Donham of Little Rock. Both father and son are Registered
Pharmacists, Joe attended the Univ. of Tennessee Pharmacy School, after
finishing high school here. During World War II, he served in the U. S. Army Air
Corps, and saw action in the European Theatre and was a sergeant when he was
discharged. His wife is the former Marion Powell of Mobile, Alabama, and they
are members of the First Baptist Church.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas