Dr. Fred Hamilton Gray, 99, of Shreveport, and a native of Trout, passed from this life peacefully on Thursday, April 8, 2010.
Fred was born on August 24, 1910 in Trout to John S. and Lillie Clarke Gray. He was the youngest son of seven children and often claimed that he was the last of the Mohicans.
Dr. Gray was a retired dentist who had practiced with his two brothers in Shreveport for over 50 years. He was a graduate of The Normal, now known as Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. He graduated in Dentistry from Loyola in New Orleans.
He served in the U.S. Navy as a dentist and attained the rank of Commander J.G. He spent a year in the South Pacific on Johnston Island where he claimed he never saw as much as a female fly for that solid year. On his way back home, he stopped in Honolulu where he stayed at the Royal Hawaiian – that Pink Hotel. He also visited San Diego and Atlanta where he often talked of the Zoo and Club Drive.
In June of 1948, he married Bettye Vickers and this union lasted for 56 years. He enjoyed traveling with her to LSU football games where he considered himself an LSUABC (Alumnus By Choice) fan. They visited many spots in the U.S. and abroad and on one of their last trips, Fred went to I-de-Ho to white water raft the Snake River. To this day, no one knows how he got into that raft.
Services were held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, at Broadmoor United Methodist Church in Shreveport with Conrad Edwards officiating.
Interment followed in the Forest Park Cemetery under direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home of Shreveport.
His wife of 56 years, Bettye Vickers Gray; and his parents preceded Fred in death.
Survivors include his children, Dr. Richard Newton Vickers Gray and wife Marsha, Sara Susan Gray Schroeder and husband Mark, and grandchildren, Hillary Vickers Schroeder and Travis Fieldner Schroeder.
The family request memorials be made to the charity of the donor's choice.
Published in The Jena Times, April 14, 2010
Fred was born on August 24, 1910 in Trout to John S. and Lillie Clarke Gray. He was the youngest son of seven children and often claimed that he was the last of the Mohicans.
Dr. Gray was a retired dentist who had practiced with his two brothers in Shreveport for over 50 years. He was a graduate of The Normal, now known as Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. He graduated in Dentistry from Loyola in New Orleans.
He served in the U.S. Navy as a dentist and attained the rank of Commander J.G. He spent a year in the South Pacific on Johnston Island where he claimed he never saw as much as a female fly for that solid year. On his way back home, he stopped in Honolulu where he stayed at the Royal Hawaiian – that Pink Hotel. He also visited San Diego and Atlanta where he often talked of the Zoo and Club Drive.
In June of 1948, he married Bettye Vickers and this union lasted for 56 years. He enjoyed traveling with her to LSU football games where he considered himself an LSUABC (Alumnus By Choice) fan. They visited many spots in the U.S. and abroad and on one of their last trips, Fred went to I-de-Ho to white water raft the Snake River. To this day, no one knows how he got into that raft.
Services were held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, at Broadmoor United Methodist Church in Shreveport with Conrad Edwards officiating.
Interment followed in the Forest Park Cemetery under direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home of Shreveport.
His wife of 56 years, Bettye Vickers Gray; and his parents preceded Fred in death.
Survivors include his children, Dr. Richard Newton Vickers Gray and wife Marsha, Sara Susan Gray Schroeder and husband Mark, and grandchildren, Hillary Vickers Schroeder and Travis Fieldner Schroeder.
The family request memorials be made to the charity of the donor's choice.
Published in The Jena Times, April 14, 2010
Dr. Fred Hamilton Gray, 99, of Shreveport, and a native of Trout, passed from this life peacefully on Thursday, April 8, 2010.
Fred was born on August 24, 1910 in Trout to John S. and Lillie Clarke Gray. He was the youngest son of seven children and often claimed that he was the last of the Mohicans.
Dr. Gray was a retired dentist who had practiced with his two brothers in Shreveport for over 50 years. He was a graduate of The Normal, now known as Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. He graduated in Dentistry from Loyola in New Orleans.
He served in the U.S. Navy as a dentist and attained the rank of Commander J.G. He spent a year in the South Pacific on Johnston Island where he claimed he never saw as much as a female fly for that solid year. On his way back home, he stopped in Honolulu where he stayed at the Royal Hawaiian – that Pink Hotel. He also visited San Diego and Atlanta where he often talked of the Zoo and Club Drive.
In June of 1948, he married Bettye Vickers and this union lasted for 56 years. He enjoyed traveling with her to LSU football games where he considered himself an LSUABC (Alumnus By Choice) fan. They visited many spots in the U.S. and abroad and on one of their last trips, Fred went to I-de-Ho to white water raft the Snake River. To this day, no one knows how he got into that raft.
Services were held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, at Broadmoor United Methodist Church in Shreveport with Conrad Edwards officiating.
Interment followed in the Forest Park Cemetery under direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home of Shreveport.
His wife of 56 years, Bettye Vickers Gray; and his parents preceded Fred in death.
Survivors include his children, Dr. Richard Newton Vickers Gray and wife Marsha, Sara Susan Gray Schroeder and husband Mark, and grandchildren, Hillary Vickers Schroeder and Travis Fieldner Schroeder.
The family request memorials be made to the charity of the donor's choice.
Published in The Jena Times, April 14, 2010
Fred was born on August 24, 1910 in Trout to John S. and Lillie Clarke Gray. He was the youngest son of seven children and often claimed that he was the last of the Mohicans.
Dr. Gray was a retired dentist who had practiced with his two brothers in Shreveport for over 50 years. He was a graduate of The Normal, now known as Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. He graduated in Dentistry from Loyola in New Orleans.
He served in the U.S. Navy as a dentist and attained the rank of Commander J.G. He spent a year in the South Pacific on Johnston Island where he claimed he never saw as much as a female fly for that solid year. On his way back home, he stopped in Honolulu where he stayed at the Royal Hawaiian – that Pink Hotel. He also visited San Diego and Atlanta where he often talked of the Zoo and Club Drive.
In June of 1948, he married Bettye Vickers and this union lasted for 56 years. He enjoyed traveling with her to LSU football games where he considered himself an LSUABC (Alumnus By Choice) fan. They visited many spots in the U.S. and abroad and on one of their last trips, Fred went to I-de-Ho to white water raft the Snake River. To this day, no one knows how he got into that raft.
Services were held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, at Broadmoor United Methodist Church in Shreveport with Conrad Edwards officiating.
Interment followed in the Forest Park Cemetery under direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home of Shreveport.
His wife of 56 years, Bettye Vickers Gray; and his parents preceded Fred in death.
Survivors include his children, Dr. Richard Newton Vickers Gray and wife Marsha, Sara Susan Gray Schroeder and husband Mark, and grandchildren, Hillary Vickers Schroeder and Travis Fieldner Schroeder.
The family request memorials be made to the charity of the donor's choice.
Published in The Jena Times, April 14, 2010
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