Topeka — Funeral services for Howard S. "Sam" Gray, 80, Topeka, will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Countryside United Methodist Church in Topeka with the Rev. Paul Mitchell officiating.
Graveside services and burial will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Mount Hope Cemetery in Neosho Rapids with military honors conducted by a Fort Riley military detail.
Mr. Gray died Monday at a Topeka nursing home. He was born Jan. 11, 1911, in the Fruitland neighborhood near Americus. He attended Americus schools and graduated from Emporia High School in 1930.
He served in the Army Air Corps from 1942 until 1945. Mr. Gray worked as a carman for the Santa Fe Railway in Topeka and Emporia before retiring in 1975.
He was a member of Countryside United Methodist Church of Topeka, the Santa Fe Retired Employees Club, the Transportation and Communications International and Topeka Area Retired Teachers.
He married Fern Daily on May 18, 1941, in Council Grove. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include a daughter, Gaylynn; two sons, Gerry, and Geoffrey; a brother, Hugh, Smiths Ferry, Idaho, and three grandchildren.
Graveside services and burial will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Mount Hope Cemetery in Neosho Rapids with military honors conducted by a Fort Riley military detail.
Mr. Gray died Monday at a Topeka nursing home. He was born Jan. 11, 1911, in the Fruitland neighborhood near Americus. He attended Americus schools and graduated from Emporia High School in 1930.
He served in the Army Air Corps from 1942 until 1945. Mr. Gray worked as a carman for the Santa Fe Railway in Topeka and Emporia before retiring in 1975.
He was a member of Countryside United Methodist Church of Topeka, the Santa Fe Retired Employees Club, the Transportation and Communications International and Topeka Area Retired Teachers.
He married Fern Daily on May 18, 1941, in Council Grove. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include a daughter, Gaylynn; two sons, Gerry, and Geoffrey; a brother, Hugh, Smiths Ferry, Idaho, and three grandchildren.
Topeka — Funeral services for Howard S. "Sam" Gray, 80, Topeka, will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Countryside United Methodist Church in Topeka with the Rev. Paul Mitchell officiating.
Graveside services and burial will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Mount Hope Cemetery in Neosho Rapids with military honors conducted by a Fort Riley military detail.
Mr. Gray died Monday at a Topeka nursing home. He was born Jan. 11, 1911, in the Fruitland neighborhood near Americus. He attended Americus schools and graduated from Emporia High School in 1930.
He served in the Army Air Corps from 1942 until 1945. Mr. Gray worked as a carman for the Santa Fe Railway in Topeka and Emporia before retiring in 1975.
He was a member of Countryside United Methodist Church of Topeka, the Santa Fe Retired Employees Club, the Transportation and Communications International and Topeka Area Retired Teachers.
He married Fern Daily on May 18, 1941, in Council Grove. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include a daughter, Gaylynn; two sons, Gerry, and Geoffrey; a brother, Hugh, Smiths Ferry, Idaho, and three grandchildren.
Graveside services and burial will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Mount Hope Cemetery in Neosho Rapids with military honors conducted by a Fort Riley military detail.
Mr. Gray died Monday at a Topeka nursing home. He was born Jan. 11, 1911, in the Fruitland neighborhood near Americus. He attended Americus schools and graduated from Emporia High School in 1930.
He served in the Army Air Corps from 1942 until 1945. Mr. Gray worked as a carman for the Santa Fe Railway in Topeka and Emporia before retiring in 1975.
He was a member of Countryside United Methodist Church of Topeka, the Santa Fe Retired Employees Club, the Transportation and Communications International and Topeka Area Retired Teachers.
He married Fern Daily on May 18, 1941, in Council Grove. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include a daughter, Gaylynn; two sons, Gerry, and Geoffrey; a brother, Hugh, Smiths Ferry, Idaho, and three grandchildren.
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