Gray, Garfield
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Funeral services were incomplete today for Garfield C. Gray, Quapaw Oklahoma mine operator who died at his home Wednesday evening. He had been seriously ill for one week. Gray, 49, had lived in this area for the past 33 years. He belonged to the Pentecostal Holiness church at Picher. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Jessie Gray, of the home; two sons, Garfield Gray, Jr., Metalline Falls Washington, and Oscar Gray, Quapaw; a daughter, Lillian Feltrot, Miami; a sister, Mrs. Lillie Robinson, Miami; his foster-mother, Mrs. Anna Gray, Marionville Missouri; a foster-sister, Mrs. Helen Henry, Nashville Tennessee; a foster- brother, Charles Gray, Joplin Missouri, and six grandchildren. The body was received by the Hunter mortuary, Picher.
Miami News Record — Miami, OK
Nov 29 1956 · p.1 · col.7
Final rites for Garfield C. Gray, Quapaw Mine operator, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at the Pentecostal church there. The Rev. Pete Thrasher will officiate. He will be assisted by the Rev. William Terry. Burial will be in G.A.R. cemetery at Miami under direction of the Hunter funeral home of Picher. The body will lie in state from 1:30 p.m. today until the funeral hour. Gray, 49, died at his home in Quapaw, Wednesday.
Miami News Record — Miami, OK
Dec 02 1956 · p.3 · col.2
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