Obit of Gray, Lloyd Jack - Garvin County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 17 Aug 2008 Return to Garvin County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/garvin/garvin.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Laurel Land Memorial Park--Ft Worth TX Gray, Lloyd Jack 1915 - 2005 Lloyd Jack Gray, died on Friday, Jan. 7, 2005, of natural causes related to cerebral atrophy. Memorial Service: 11 a.m. Thursday at Gambrell Street Baptist Church in Fort Worth. Interment: 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Laurel Land Memorial Park. Visitation: 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday. Memorials: The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to Gambrell Street Baptist Church of Fort Worth, Advent Lutheran Church of Arlington or Covenant Hospice. Dr. Gray was born Oct. 16, 1915, in Stratford, Okla., to Walter and Georgia Glover Gray. He held degrees from East Central State College (Oklahoma), Southwestern Baptist Seminary, and Southern Baptist Seminary (ThD). Above his academic diplomas, the piece of paper Jack Gray was proudest of was his license to preach, dated June 24, 1934. He cherished this date as much as he cherished his wedding anniversary. In the early 40s, while he was a student at Southwestern Seminary, he caught a train every weekend and traveled to Bennington and Bokchito, Okla., where he pastored two churches. During World War II, he served as a chaplain in the Navy, and was stationed in the Aleutian Islands, and aboard the S.S. Makassar Straits, an aircraft carrier. Before returning to Southwestern Seminary to teach in 1956, he pastored churches in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Missouri. During his tenure at Southwestern he sang in the Theology School men's quartet. He also served as pulpit supply and interim pastor in many Texas churches, including Woods Chapel Baptist Church in Arlington. During his sabbatic leave years from teaching at Southwestern Seminary, he pastored churches in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Blantyre, Malawi; and Taiwan. As his academic interests broadened, he became a frequent speaker on prayer and spiritual formation. After retirement, he wrote a curriculum for the endowed Chair of Prayer at Southwestern Seminary. He also personally mentored many seminary students through prayer groups. Through this activity his ministry has reached around the world as his students have graduated and moved to their places of service. He was a devoted husband to Elsie Carr Gray, who died in 2002. He was also preceded in death by a brother, Allen Gray, and sister, Opal Miller. Survivors: Daughters, Noralyn Gray Carpenter and Kristen Gray Desbien; son-in-law, Bob Desbien; granddaughter, Susanne Gray Carpenter; brother, Morris Gray; and numerous nephews and nieces. Published in the Star-Telegram from 1/8/2005 - 1/9/2005. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Garvin County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/garvin/garvin.html