TITLE:    Dorothy M. Gray, Obituary, Feb. 23, 2001

SUBMITTERS:  The Coos County Democrat EST. 1838 LANCASTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE  
             Publishing news & views of LANCASTER - GROVETON -WHITEFIELD 
             & other towns of the upper Connecticut River valley of New 
             Hampshire & Vermont - John D. Harrigan, Publisher (Feb 21,2001
             -issue) "All the news that fits"

FORMATTED:   by CParziale, Feb 2001

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Dorothy M. Gray 

LANCASTER - Dorothy M. Gray died in Weeks Medical Center on
Feb. 23, 2001 at the age of 93. 

Born in Derry she was the daughter of the late John Colby Davis Jr.
and Janet (Slater) Davis. A graduate of Pinkerton Academy and
Plymouth State College, she taught school in New Hampshire and
retired from the Kittery (Me.) Scholl Department after serving as a
school principal and teacher for many years. She had lived in Dedham,
Mass., Portsmouth and Kittery Point, Me. for many years before
moving to Lancaster in 1998. 

Wife of the late Forrest E. Gray, she leaves a daughter, Dorothy-Ann
MacInnes and her husband, B. Scott MacInnes of Dedham, four
grandchildren: John S. Ingram of Scituate, Mass; Deborah A. (Ingram)
Dimmitt of Lancaster; Elizabeth A. (Ingram) Bishop of Hopedale,
Mass.; Christopher F. Colhard of Dedham, Mass.; and seven
great-grandchildren. She was the sister of the late Edward L. Davis of
Natick, Mass. and Edyth M. Beauchamp of Rockville, Md. 

She had attended Audubon camping and study facilities in Maine, being
honored by the Kittery Public Schools for her interest in nature and
bringing it to her classroom. She was an avid and knowledgeable bird
watcher, an artist working in oils and creative stitchery, and in her
retirement, continuing her studies at the University of New Hampshire
and traveled in this country and abroad. 

Funeral arrangements are by J. Verne Wood Funeral Home,
Portsmouth, N.H. A visiting hour will be held in Buckminster Chapel
today (Feb.28), followed by services at noon. Burial will be private. In
lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to the Maine
Audubon Society. 



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