Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, Alice J., 1940 

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ALICE JEAN GRAY

   Miss Alice Jean Gray died last Saturday afternoon at H.M. Purviance’s 
residence in Boykins following an illness of several months.

   She was the youngest child of John and Margaret Allen Gray and was born in 
Detroit, Mich.  She was 65 years of age and had made her home with Mrs. Belle 
Purviance for the last 27 years.  She and Mrs. Purviance moved to Boykins 
several years ago from Huntington, Indiana.  At Huntington she had been 
supervisor of art in the seven graded school and the high school of that city. 
She taught there 30 years. She was elected honorary member of Indiana State 
Artists Association.

   Her parents and all her sisters and brothers preceded her in death.  She is 
survived by a number of nieces and nephews residing in Detroit and in 
California.  She was a member of the Boykins Methodist Church and the Epworth 
Bible Class of that church.

   Funeral services were held in the Purviance Funeral Home Sunday afternoon at 
3:00 o’clock with her pastor, Rev. E.B. Loving officiating.  He was assisted by 
Rev. F.B. Handley.  The music was furnished by the combined choirs of the town. 
Honorary pallbearers were the members of the Epworth Bible Class of the 
Methodist Church.  The active pallbearers were: Earl W. Bryant, J.M. Britt, J.C. 
Blowe, C.T. Beaton, W.E. Spencer, J.M. Hill, C.M. Edwards and Wallace W. White, 
Jr.

   Interment was in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins.


[Alice Jean GRAY, former Huntington, IN art teacher, 
 Detroit, MI native, d. 11 May 1940, at home, Boykins, age 65, 
 interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 2, Sect. D, Plot 181), Boykins, 
    12 May 1940, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 17, 1940] 

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