SNYDER DAILY NEWS
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Alice Ruth Gray 

1927-2000 

Alice Ruth Gray, longtime Snyder resident, passed away unexpectedly Wednesday, 
July 26, after being airlifted by AeroCare Services to Covenant Medical Center in
 Lubbock, Tex. 

Funeral service for Mrs. Gray, 73, is set for 2 p.m. Friday in the First United Methodist
 Church with the Rev. Miller Robinson, retired Baptist minister, officiating. Burial will
 follow in Hillside Memorial Gardens under the direction of Bell-Cypert-Seale Funeral Home. 

Born June 26, 1927 in McCamey to Edward and Nellie Forsyth, she graduated from Mirabeau 
B. Lamar High School in Houston, Tex. While working at her family�s dude ranch, 
she met and later married Paul �Dick� Gray on Jan. 17, 1946 in Llano. 
They moved to Eunice, N.M. where Dick worked for Samedan Oil Company until moving 
to Goldsmith, Tex. with Phillips Petroleum. 

In 1953, they moved to Snyder and over the years she worked with Von Roeder Seed Farms, 
Dickie�s Work Clothes Rental Service, Howard Gray Auto, Key Brothers Implement Company
 and Western Texas College as book store manager. All the while, she was Co-owner and
 Office Manager of Paul Gray Oil Company and their affiliated companies.
 She was a Methodist. 

Mrs. Gray was preceded in death by a brother, Lewis Forsyth, as well as her mother and dad. 

Survivors include her husband, Paul �Dick� Gray of Snyder; two sons and daughters-in-law,
 Gordon and Barbara Gray of Snyder and Rodney and Mary Gray of Aledo, Tex.;
 grandsons Brandon Gray of Dallas and Spencer Gray of Aledo, Tex., and Stafford and
 Alan Gray of Snyder; two brothers, Clarence Edward Forsyth of Oceana, Calif., 
Frank Richard Forsyth of Midland; two sisters, Jewel Ziriax of Rye, Tex. and
 Alla Mae McDowell of Baytown. 

Family visitation will be Thursday, July 27, at Bell-Cypert-Seale Funeral Home 
from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m.; the family will be at home at 2604 46th St. in 
Towle Park after services on Friday. 

The family has requested that in lieu of flowers that contributions by made to a
 favorite charity, the American Heart Association, the West Texas Rehabilitation Center
 in Abilene, Tex. or San Angelo, Tex., or the Veterans of Foreign Wars. 
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