TITLE:   Addie E. Gray, Obituary, Dec 18, 2000

SUMITTERS:    COLEBROOK NEWS & SENTINEL
              "Independent but not Neutral"
              1 Bridge Street, P.O. Box 39, Colebrook, NH 03576
 	      (603) 237-5501 (issue- Dec 27, 2000)

FORMATTED:    by CParziale, 2000
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ADDIE GRAY


Addie E. Gray, 81, died on December 18, 2000 at the Upper Connecticut Valley
Hospital after a brief illness. 

Born on September 20, 1919 in Canaan, Vt., she was the daughter of John and 
Alda (Guay) Elliott. Mrs. Gray was a 1939 graduate of Canaan Memorial High 
School, Canaan, and a 1941 graduate of Lyndon Normal School. She married 
Gordon Gray on January 8, 1944. 

Mrs. Gray taught school throughout the North Country for many years, 
including two years in Thetford, Vt., three years in Pittsburg, and 27 years
in Canaan, Vt. She taught for 28 years in Stewartstown, served as the 
Stewartstown school librarian for 15 of those years, and continued on two 
more years after she had retired as a teacher. 

Mrs. Gray was employed for 15 years as a cashier at the Balsams Grand Resort 
Hotel and was employed for several years at the Norton Drive-in Theatre in 
Norton, Vt. She was one of the founding board members of Colebrook Home 
Health. She was active in the Canaan (Vt) Womanıs Club, and was a member of 
the Metallak Retired Teachers Association. Mrs. Gray enjoyed cooking, reading
cookbooks, doing crafts, traveling, searching for antiques and going to yard
sales. She will be remembered as a caring teacher and a loving mother, who 
at age 55 took on the responsibility of four foster children. 

She is survived by her husband of 56 years, Gordon Gray, of West 
Stewartstown; two sons, Richard Gray of Red Hook, N.Y. and Donald Gray of 
Kittery, Me.; a daughter, Patricia Grover of West Stewartstown; a brother, 
Francis Elliott, of Willimantic, Conn.; and four foster children, Paul Koch 
of Florida, Johan Koch of Manchester, Kirsten Lyons of Canaan, Vt. and Teresa 
Pendell of Exeter; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. 

She was predeceased by a son, Mahlon, seven brothers, Medie, Eugene, Leo, 
Ted, Dominic, Romauld, and Jessy, and a sister, Addie. 

Those wishing to make donations in memory of Addie Gray may give to the Home
Health Care of Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital, Corliss Lane, Colebrook, 
NH 03576. 

Calling hours were held on Wednesday, December 20 at the Newman Funeral Home
in Colebrook. A mass of Christian burial was celebrated at St. Albert Church
in West Stewartstown on Thursday, December 21. Interment will be in the 
spring. 

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Newman Funeral Home. 


(Issue of December 27, 2000) 


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