GRAY (VETERAN WWII), JOHNNY JEFFERSON  - Lawrence County, Arkansas | JOHNNY JEFFERSON  GRAY (VETERAN WWII) - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

Johnny Jefferson GRAY (VETERAN WWII)

Old Military Cemetery
Lawrence County,
Arkansas

CORPORAL US Army Air Forces
World War II
May 08, 1922 - August 17, 2014



Marriage: 07 Jul 1943 recorded Lawrence County, Arkansas Book Q-149

Johnny Jefferson Gray the husband of Pearl Maxine (Neal) Gray.


Johnny Jefferson Gray, 92, of Pocahontas, Arkansas, died Sunday, August 17, 2014, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro.

He was born May 8, 1922, in Sedgwick, Arkansas, to “S.B.” and Loretta Dean Gray.

On July 7, 1943 he married Pearl Maxine Neal in Sedgwick.

Johnny was an Army-Air Force veteran, served as an airplane engineer during WWII, was a car hauler, worked at Oak Ridge Central Schools for eleven years, was an avid hunter and fisherman, and was a member of Cache River Pentecostal Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents; sons, Hubert Nelson Gray and John Donald Gray; daughter, Debra Louetta; and grandson, Lloyd L. Gray.

Survivors include his wife, Pearl, of the home; sons, James Glenn Gray of McDonough, Georgia, Lloyd Lee Gray of Dalton, Benny Randall Gray of Dalton; daughters, Judy Chiappelli of Hoxie, Rhonda Cherry and Tammy Tribble both of Pocahontas; numerous grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren; and numerous great-great-grand-children.

Funeral services were held in the Cox Chapel. Burial was in Old Military Cemetery in Sedgwick.

Obituary provided courtesy of The Jonesboro Sun Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas posted August 19, 2014.

Contributed on 5/9/18 by denise.bratcher63
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Submitted: 5/9/18 • Approved: 5/10/18 • Last Updated: 5/13/18 • R1222082-G0-S3

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