Mitchell-Decatur County GaArchives Obituaries.....Gray, Dr. Joseph Lyford June 1961
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The Camilla Enterprise Jun 15, 1961
Obituary of Dr. Joseph Lyford Gray as written on page 1 B of "The Camilla 
Enterprise" dated 15 Jun 1961.  Camilla, Georgia.   
Funeral services for Dr. Joseph Lyford Gray, age 70, were held Tuesday 
afternoon at three o'clock at the Camilla Presbyterian Church with the Rev. A. 
M. Mitchell, of Columbia, S. C., a former pastor here, officiating.  Interment 
followed in Greenshade Cemetery in Bainbridge.  Dr. Gray, who had retired last 
January after practicing denistry in Camilla for forty-four years, died Sunday 
morning at Mitchell County Hospital.  He suffered a heart attack several weeks 
ago and had recovered sufficiently to be moved to his home across the street.  
Last Thursday his condition worsened and he was placed back in the hospital 
where death came early Sunday.  Survivors include his wife, the former Mrs. 
Johnnie Mae Palmer Faircloth; one daughter, Mrs. Laleah Gray Thomas of 
Arlington, Virginia; one grandson, Lt. Henry E. Thomas IV of Camp Pendleton, 
California, who made his home here with his grandfather as a young boy for 
several years; two step-sons, Major Winston H. Faircloth of Fort Knox, 
Kentucky, and John Marvin Faircloth of Jacksonville, Fla.; several step-
grandchildren also survive.  Dr. Gray's first wife died in August of 1943 and 
in May 1944 he was happily married to the former Mrs. Johnnie Mae Faircloth.  
Dr. Gray was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church in Donalsville and also in the 
Camilla Presbyterian Church, although serving as retired Elder in recent 
years.  Dr. Gray was born February 12, 1891, in Decatur County, the son of the 
late Joseph Howell Gray and Sarah Letitian Rogers Gray, pioneer settlers of 
Decatur County.  He attended school at Faceville in Decatur County but most of 
his elementary education he received from private tutorship of his mother.  As 
a young man he was employed at First National Bank in Bainbridge and later at 
Maddox Grocery Company, also of Bainbridge.  In April of 1914 he was married to 
the late Laleah A. Crawford and September of that year he entered Atlanta 
Dental College which emerged into Emory the year of his graduation in 1917.  
After graduation he set up practice in Donalsville and remained there four 
years.  Later, in February of 1921, he set up offices in the Lewis Building in 
Camilla where he remained the last forty years.  The body lay in state at the 
church in Camilla from 1:00 P. M. until hour of funeral service.  Honorary 
pallbearers were men of the Presbyterian Church.  Active pallbearers were 
Thurman Rigsby, C. L. Hudson, J. R. Ross, Robert Culpepper Jr., Wood Marshall, 
Troy Shiver, Theodore Palmer and Julian Rivers.  Braswell Funeral Home of 
Pelham had charge of arrangements.

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