Veteran World War II United States Army; Rank: Major
Services for Eloise Gray, 83, of Ralls will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Apr. 24, 1999, at Adams Funeral Home in Ralls with the Rev. Gary Hubbard, pastor of Ralls First United Methodist Church, officiating and Dr. Leon Upshaw of Austin assisting.
Private burial will be in the Ralls Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
She died Apr. 13, 1999, at the Ralls Nursing Home.
She was born Feb. 17, 1916, in Roswell, NM. She married Ralph Gray on Feb. 11, 1942, in Littlefield.
She was a 1932 graduate of Commerce High School and 1935 graduate of East Texas State College with a BA degree and received her Master´s degree from Texas Tech in 1968. She taught school in Littlefield. she was member of the Presbyterian Church and was active in church work at First Presbyterian Church in Lubbock, First Presbyterian Church in Bridgeport and at the Churchill Way Presbyterian Church in Dallas. She was active in Presbyterian Women and the Lubbock Women´s Club. She moved to Ralls in 1998 from Dallas.
Survivors include her husband, Ralph Gray of Ralls, one daughter, Lisa Ann Gray and her husband Joe Marshall of Lake City, CO; one granddaughter, Catherine Gray Peters of Dallas; six cousins, Kenneth Hanes, and Beulah Hanes both of Possum Kingdom Lake, Charles B. Gray of Ralls, Mary Jane Parker, Lucille Abercrombie, and Faye Kuykendal, all of Lubbock.
The Crosby County News & Chronicle, Friday, April 23, 1999
RALLS — Memorial services for Ralph Gray, 93, of Crosbyton will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church in Ralls with the Revs. Gary Hubbard and Larry Reed-Harris officiating and Catherine Gray Peters assisting.
Arrangements are under the direction of Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
He died Friday, Dec. 28, 2001.
He was born Sept. 20, 1908, in Govee and married Eloise Hanes on Feb. 11, 1942, in Littlefield. She died April 13, 1999. He attended Ralls schools and began work as a warehousing agent in 1938 for West Texas Warehousing in Lubbock and Littlefield.
He was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Emma Masonic Lodge in Ralls and a lodge in Dallas. He was a member of Churchill Way Presbyterian Church in Dallas and attended Runaway Bay Presbyterian Church and First Presbyterian Church in Lubbock. He served in the Army during World War II, achieving the rank of major.
Survivors include a daughter, Lisa Gray of Lake City, Colo.; and one grandchild.
The family suggests memorials to the Ralls Library or the Crosbyton Library.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Thursday, January 17, 2002
Note: Died in Crosbyton, body cremated.
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