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Submitted: 6/20/21 • Approved: 6/21/21 • Last Updated: 6/24/21 • R429571-G0-S3
STAFF SERGEANT US Army
World War II
April 24, 1920-April 25, 1982
Mason
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services for Sumner Gray, 62, of 1402 Burch, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Lyman Wood, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors.
Mr. Gray died at about 7 p.m. Sunday.
A native of Meade, Kan., Mr. Gray had been a Borger resident for 28 years. He was a World War II veteran, member of the First United Methodist Church, past Worshipful Master of Isom Masonic Lodge, and a Shriner.
Survivors include his wife, Iva; two daughters, Mrs. O.C. Bowling of Minneola, Kan. and Mrs. W.R. Wiseman of Great Falls, Mont.; three sons, Bob Libby of Fort Worth, Col. Bill Libby of Ft. Monmouth, N.J., Francis Libby of Victoria; three sisters, Mrs. Betty Hinson and Mrs. Dorothy Boyd, both of Meade, Kan., and Mrs. Ena Wertz of Wichita, Kan.; two brothers, Bob of Cortez, Colo., Ted of Oceanside, Calif; 20 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Jack McCallie, Harry Wilborn, Cecil Springer, Roger Jones, James Roberts, and Wade Gillespie.
(Published in Borger News Herald, April 27, 1982)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Sumner Gray
Death Date: 25 Apr 1982
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Sumner Eliason Gray
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 62
Birth Date: 24 Apr 1920
Birth Place: Kansas
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 25 Apr 1982
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: Thomas Gray
Mother: Eva Eliason
Spouse: Iva Clapp
Contributed on 6/20/21
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