Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, Oscar L., 1968 

************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm
************************************************

OSCAR LEE GRAY

   FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Oscar Lee Gray was conducted Friday at 
3:30 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Robert D. 
Fridley of High Street Methodist Church.  Burial was in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Curtis Rose, Jimmy Surace, Jet Handford, George Hedgepeth, 
Robert Hollowell, Floyd Wall, Otto Harcum and Robert Owens.

   Gray, 47, died in Southampton Memorial Hospital Wednesday after a brief 
illness.

   A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of Mrs. Anna Cutchins 
Gray and a son of Mrs. Blanche Miles and the late Willie Davis Gray.

   He was supervisor for St. Regis Paper, a member of Franklin Methodist 
Church, and a Navy veteran of World War II.

   Besides his widow and mother, surviving are a son, Oscar Lee Gray Jr. of 
Sandston; three brothers, Berkley Gray and Ashley Gray and Boykins and Marvin 
Gray of Shallotte, N.C.; a sister, Mrs. Minnie Cogsdale of Boykins; and two 
grandchildren.


Oscar Lee GRAY, St. Regis Paper Co. supervisor, Navy veteran of WW-II, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 24 Jan 1968, Franklin, age 47, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 226*), Franklin, 
   26 Jan 1968, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 29, 1968, p. 3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g600o1ob.txt