Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, Marq, Jr. October 27, 2003 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Woolfitt http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008401 November 14, 2025, 2:30 pm Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, NC) October 29, 2003 Hertford resident - Marq Gray Jr., 80, of 130 Evergreen Drive, Hertford, died Monday afternoon, Oct. 27, 2003, in Chowan Hospital. Born in Norfolk, Va., he was the husband of the late Doris Hope Hutcheson Gray and the son of the late Marq and Lillian Ruth Russell Gray. He retired as a senior master sergeant with the U.S. Air Force after 29 years of service and later worked for 11 years in civil service with the Elizabeth City Coast Guard Air Station. He was a member of Bethel Baptist Church, where he was a lay minister; the Bethel Ruritan Club and Perquimans Masonic Lodge #106. Gray was also a member of American Legion Post #126, VFW Post #8148, a life member of the Air Force Association and the Retired Enlisted Association. Survivors include a niece, Marcia Gray, and a nephew, David Gray, both of Hampton, Va.; and two sisters-in-law, Mildred Gray of Hampton, Va. and Virginia Perry Baldwin of Norfolk, Va. The family will receive friends Friday from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Swindell Funeral and Cremation Services, Hertford. Graveside services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. in Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Shriner's Crippled Children's Hospitals, c/o Sudan Temple, P.O. Drawer 490, New Bern, NC 28560. Swindell Funeral and Cremation Services of Hertford is serving the Gray family. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/g/gray17815nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/vafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb