Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, Roy L. Sr., 1956 

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ROY LEE GRAY, SR. 

   Roy Lee Gray, Sr., 51, resident of Franklin and the Franklin community for 
the past 20 years, died at Raiford Memorial Hospital Thursday, January 26, 
after suffering a stroke Wednesday night.

   Mr. Gray, a lifelong resident of Southampton County, was employed by J.R. 
Ford Asphalt Paving Company of Franklin.  He was a member of the Sunbeam 
Baptist Church.

   He was the son of the late Willis Davis and Dora Drake Gray of Southampton 
County and husband of Mrs. Katie Newsoms Gray of Franklin, who survives him.

   Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Joyce Inez and Phyllis 
Ann Gray, and a son Roy Lee Gray, Jr., all of Franklin; a sister, Mrs. W.G. 
Cogsdale of Newsoms; five beorthers, Berkley and Ashby Gray of Boykins, Herman 
Gray of Suffolk, Marvin Gray of Severn, N.C., and Oscar Gray of Franklin, and 
a number of nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were conducted Saturday in the chapel of the W.J.M. 
Holland & Sons Funeral Home by Rev. Clyde Fields, pastor of the Hunterdale 
Christian Church.  Burial was on Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Active pallbearers were Richard E. Carter, Stafford Blythe, Harry Rutledge, 
J. Richard Lawrence, Caroll Scott, Lawrence Councill, M.D. Blythe and A.E. 
Drewry.


Roy Lee GRAY, Sr., of Franklin, asphalt paver,  
lifelong resident of Southampton Co., d. 26 Jan 1956, Franklin, age 51, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 226*), Franklin, 
   27 Jan 1954, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 2, 1954, Sect. II, p. 3 

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


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