Times Leader
Princeton, Ky.
Aug. 5, 2009

Rev. L. C. Gray, 73, of Owensboro, died Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009.

Born July 19, 1936, a son of the late Albert and Effie Williamson Gray, in Lyon County, he was a member of Crosspointe Baptist Church, and was a graduate of Butler High School in Princeton.

He attended Mid-Continent College and Kentucky Wesleyan College, surrendering to the ministry on Mother’s Day, 1956. He served as pastor of Cedar Bluff Baptist Church in Princeton, Epley Station Baptist Church and Oak Grove Baptist Church, both in Russellville, Pleasant View Baptist Church in Clarksville, Tenn., and Glenville Baptist Church and Parrish Avenue Baptist Church, both in the Owensboro area. He served on several mission trips to Guatemala, Brazil, Russia, Romania and Belize and led evangelistic teams to Honduras, where he was instrumental in beginning a church. He also spent 23 years as a full-time evangelist, preaching revivals and Bible conferences.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, Teresa Gray; and a brother, Willard Gray.

Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Nadine Crenshaw Gray; two daughters, Rhiannon Gray and Anita Wilson and husband Matt, all of Owensboro; two grandsons, Rev. Kenny Rager and wife Taran Smith Rager of Hartford, and Nicholas Adams of Princeton; a brother, Billy Gray and wife Joann of Newburgh, Ind.; a sister-in-law Dottie Gray of Hopkinsville; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, Aug. 5, at noon at Crosspointe Baptist Church.

Burial will follow in Pleasant Grove Cemetery. (Caldwell Co., Ky.)

Honorary pallbearers will be any ordained minister.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Crosspointe Baptist Church Building Fund.

Online condolences may be sent to www.glennfuneralhome.com.
Glenn Funeral Home in Owensboro is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Glenn
Funeral Home in Owensboro and from 10 a.m. to the funeral hour Wednesday.