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Submitted: 6/25/09 • Approved: 10/10/16 • Last Updated: 10/13/16 • R208129-G208128-S3
Benton
September 15, 1895 - December 8, 1977
*Obituary
Springdale News
Friday, December 9, 1977
Benton McMillin Wray, 82, Rt. 1, Farmington, died Dec. 8 in Springdale Memorial Hospital. Born Sept. 15, 1895, in Estaline, Tex., he was the son of Thomas and Sarah Carr Wray, a retired farmer and a member of the Church of Christ.
Survivors include two sons, Gorman Wray, Norwalk, Calif., and Benton M. Wray Jr., Farmington; two daughters, Mrs. Bertha Reddin, Garden Grove, Calif., and Mrs. Juanita McClelland, Summers; one brother, John Wray, DeKalb, Tex.; two sisters, Mrs. Maggie Needes, Belton, Tex., and Mrs. Mattie Copeland, DeKalb, Tex.; 12 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Farmington
Church of Christ with A. E. Spurlock officiating. Burial will be in Farmington Cemetery under the direction of Luginbuel Funeral Home of Prairie Grove.
Ethel:
February 17, 1897 - June 2, 1977
*Obituary
Springdale News
Thursday, June 2, 1977
Mrs. Ethel Wray, 80, Farmington, died June 2 in Fayetteville hospital. Born Feb. 17, 1897, in Oklahoma, she was the daughter of C.R. and Nettie Lloyd Thompson and a member of the Church of Christ.
Survivors include her husband, Benton Wray Sr. of the home; two sons, Gormon Wray, Norwalk, Calif., and Benton Wray Jr., Farmington; two daughters, Mrs. Bertha Reddin, Garden Grove, Calif., and Mrs. Juanita McClelland, Summers; one brother, C.R. Thompson, LaRue, Tex.; two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Bunger and Miss Stella Thompson, Big Spring, Tex.; 12 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Farmington Church of Christ. Burial will be in Farmington Cemetery under the direction of Luginbuel Funeral Home of Prairie Grove.
Married July 2, 1916
*Photo taken and submitted by volunteer Debbie Henbest Jordon, May 2009.
Contributed on 6/25/09 by reachdebbie
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