Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, M. Bruce Hodsden, 1961 

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Dies At Church; Mrs. Mary Gray Rites Tuesday 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Bruce Hodsden Gray will be conducted Tuesday 
at 3 p.m. at the Baker Funeral Home, by the Rev. James H. Unruh, pastor of 
Providence Methodist Church, and the Rev. R.E. Brittle, pastor of Bethlehem 
Christian Church.  Burial will be in Old St. Luke's Cemetery near Benn's 
Church, Isle of Wight County. 

  Mrs. Gray, 72, a member of an old and prominent family of Isle of Wight 
County, died Sunday at 12:15 p.m. at Providence Methodist Church.  She had 
attended Easter service and was stricken going from the church to the family 
car. 

  A member of the church and its Woman's Society of Christian Service, she was 
assistant teacher of its Sadie Whitley Bible Class. 

  She was a member of the Col. William Allen Chapter, Daughters of the 
American Revolution, and of Blackstone College Alumnae Association.  She was a 
charter member of the Jumbo Woman's Club and an honorary member of King's Fork 
Woman's Club. 

  She grew up in the Chuckatuck section of Nansemond County and first was a 
member of Benn's Methodist Church.  Her parents were Robert and Mary Batten 
Hodsden. 

  Survivors include her husband, Nathaniel T. Gray; a stepson, N.T. Gray Jr., 
and a stepgrandson, N.T. Gay III, all of Nansemond County. 


Mary Bruce (HODSDEN; Mrs. Nathaniel Thomas) GRAY, 
b. 28 Jun 1888, Nansemond Co., d. 2 Apr 1961, Nansemond Co., 
interred in Old St. Luke's Cemetery*, Benns Church, 4 Apr 1961, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 39, No. 79, Mon., Apr. 3, 1961, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #17: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

Photos of her gravestone & plot - added by Jake Dog - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #78681469. 

Her parents are also buried there. 

D.Cert. 10656 (Chuckatuck #127) 

Her husband (1881 - 1961) is buried with his first wife in Cedar Hill 
   Cemetery, Suffolk - Block G, Lot 21. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_g.txt 


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