William Anderson Gray ’34

Bill Gray, whose true vocations, according to his family, were hunting, fishing, and tennis, in each of which he was expert, died Jan. 3, 1996, at his home in Santa Cruz, Calif. From 1945-94 he lived in Albuquerque, N. Mex., where he was an officer of the Tennis Club of Albuquerque, the HYP Club, the Fish & Wildlife Assn., Ducks Unlimited, and the Albuquerque Zoo. He moved to Santa Cruz, following a series of strokes, to be near his daughters and their families.

In WWII, Bill was in the Naval Reserve and was a purchasing agent for Ohio Tubular, a war plant. After his marriage in 1940 to Anna Lee Peters, the couple moved from Ohio to New Mexico, where they settled in Albuquerque. There Bill worked as a sales manager for Blue Cross of New Mexico and later Con Mutual of Omaha.

Survivors include Anna, a 1937 Ohio State graduate and a sister of Mary Larsen; two daughters, Mary Anderson Miles and Susan Peters Meschi, and three grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathies. A family memorial service was held in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and Bill's ashes were to be scattered near his beloved trout pond in Ruidoso, N. Mex.

The Class of 1934