Submitted by: Brenda Felder ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Do not know which paper this obituary appeared in, but Mrs. Gray died August 27, 1967. MRS. RUTH G. GRAY Mrs. Ruth Grafton Gray of Bernice, La, died in a Bernice hospital Sunday afternoon following a lengthy illness. She was born in Bernice August 22, 1913, and was the daughter of Daniel Tate and Alfia Johnson Grafton. Survivors include her husband, Lonnie Gray of Bernice; two sons, Jimmy Gray of Bernice and Gene Gray of Farmerville, LA; one daughter, Mrs. Maureen Coles of El Dorado; five grandchildren; four sister, Mrs. Joanne Grafton and Mrs. Kermit Pilgreen of Bernice, Mrs. Alfred Gatlin of Little Rock and Mrs. Don Parks of Niagara Falls, NY; four brothers, Billy Grafton and Webster Grafton of Bernice, Tate Grafton, Jr. of Camden, and E. W. Grafton of Bossier City, LA; and her stepmother, Mrs. Tate Grafton of Bernice; and father, Daniel Tate Grafton. Funeral services will be at 10 am Tuesday at the Pisgah Baptist Church with the Rev. Alton Hawk officiating. Interment will be in the Pisgah Cemetery by the Bailey Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be Frank McIntosh, John Robinson, Paul Gray, M. F. Copeland, Earl Milner, and Jesse Copeland. The body will lie in state in the Pisgah Baptist Church from 12:30 pm Monday until service time Tuesday. # # #