Submitted by Georgia Gill-Elkins

South Bend Tribune Tuesday, April 29, 1980

Edward D. Gray

Edward D. Gray, 99, formerly of 1114 Duey, died at 6:35 p.m. Saturday in the Northwood Nursing Home after a one year illness. He was a former construction worker. Born on Nov. 26, 1880, in Kosciusko, Miss., he had lived in South Bend for 34 years after coming from Blythville, Ark. He is survived by five daughters, Miss Alma Gray and Mrs. Velma Williams, both of Benton Harbor, Mrs. Valie Booker of Chicago, Mrs. Lue Ella Mason of Kenneth, Mo., and Mrs. Hattie Miller of South Bend; three sons Oren and Otis Gray of Benton Harbor, and Sgt. Eddie Gray, with the US Air Force, stationed in Dayton, Ohio; we grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church. Rev. Henry L. Giden, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 5 t0 9 p.m. Friday in Clark's Funeral Chapel. He was a member of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist church and its male chorus.