- Date Of Birth: November 9, 1923
- Date Of Death: March 16, 2013
- State: Florida
LAWRENCE
ECCLES
GRAY, Jr., 89
FMC Corp
LAKELAND – Lawrence Eccles Gray, Jr., 89, passed away as a result of natural causes Saturday, March 16, 2013.
Mr. Gray was born November 9, 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in North Carolina and attended Belmont Abbey parochial school. As a young man during World War II, he moved to New Jersey to work at the Bakelite Corporation where he met his wife Margaret. Before the end of the war, he and his wife moved to Davis Island in Florida where he worked at the Navy shipyard.
After his retirement, Mr. Gray became an avid collector of stamps, coins, boxes, bricks, “round” things that he found on the ground and couldn’t identify, and Lakeland postcards. He used his postcard collection to give several presentations on Lakeland history to local groups. He also loved meeting his friends for breakfast at Reececliff every morning, where copies of his Lakeland postcards adorn the walls.
Mr. Gray was preceded in death by his brother, Francis Eugene “Gene” Gray. He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Margaret Gray; daughters, Caroline Gray Krombach and Susan (William) Melson; sister, Dorothy Groom; brother, James (Yamara) Higgins; grandson, Alfred (Molly) Krombach III; granddaughters, Kerry and Brittany Melson; and 3 great grandchildren.
