Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, Emmett A., 1971 

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EMMETT ALLEN GRAY 

   CARRSVILLE - A funeral service for Emmett Allen Gray was conducted Friday 
afternoon at 2 p.m. in Colosse Baptist Church by the Rev. Joseph L. McTeer 
and the Rev. Donald E. Trump.  Burial was in Southampton Memorial Park with 
W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home, Franklin, in charge.

   Pallbearers were P.B. Butler, George Parker, Jack Carr, Gilmer Parker, 
Delmar Carr, William Rose, Cliff Carr and John T. Carr.

   Gray, 73, of Route 1 died Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. in Southampton Memorial 
Hospital, Franklin, after a brief illness.

   A native of Como, N.C., he lived in this area 13 years and formerly in 
Norfolk.

   He was the husband of Mrs. Vivian Lankford Gray and a son of Henry Clay 
and Mrs. Sarah Atkins Gray.

   He was a retired pipefitter of Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

   He was a member of Colosse Baptist Church, Willie Lee Pythian Lodge 119 
of South Norfolk, Ziyad Temple 28 of Knights of Khorassan, and 29th Division 
Association.

   He was an Army veteran of World War I.

   Besides his widow, surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Helen Gray Williams of 
Salem, Ind.; a son  Emmett Ray Gray of Falls Church; a sister, Mrs. Eddie Vick 
of Seaford; six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.


Emmett Allen GRAY, of Carrsville, formerly of Norfolk, 
retired Norfolk Naval Shipyard pipefitter, Army veteran of WW-I, 
Como, NC native, d. 26 Jan 1971, Franklin, age 73, 
interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Christus I, Plot 96*), 29 Jan 1971, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 1, 1971, p. 5 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Southampton Memorial Park list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/somempk.txt 


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