Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, Walter P., 1960 

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WALTER PERCY GRAY

   COURTLAND - Walter Percy Gray, 88, retired undertaker and hardware dealer, 
died Friday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Elmo E. Pittman, near 
Courtland, after an illness of one week.

   He was a native of Southampton County, a son of William and Mrs. Mary Lou 
Gray.  He was the widower of Mrs. Sarah Vincent Gray.

   He was a member of Boykins Methodist Church and the Woodmen of the World.

   With his late brother, he had operated the Gray Brothers Hardware and 
Undertaking Co. for 40 years.  He had been retired for 30 years.

   Besides his daughter, surviving are one son, Beverly R. Gray of Washington 
and three sisters, Mrs. Virgie Wartham, Mrs. Ed Moore and Mrs. W.J. Worrell, 
all of Richmond, and one granddaughter, Kathryn Gray Pittman of the home.

   Funeral services were held at Boykins Methodist Church Sunday at 3 p.m. by 
the Rev. H.G. Thach, pastor, and the Rev. R.L. Bailey, pastor of Courtland 
Baptist Church.  Burial was in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins.

   Pallbearers were Franklin Stephens. L.L. Worrell, Norman Beaton, Jack 
Britt, J.C. Blowe and Stuart Jenkins.


[Walter Percy GRAY, retired undertaker and hardware dealer, 
 Southampton Co. native, 
 d. 5 Feb 1960, at daughter's home, near Courtland, age 88, 
 interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 195), Boykins, 7 Feb 1960, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 8, 1960, p. 4] 

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