Date: 6-8-1967
Source:
Cleveland Press;
Cleveland Necrology
File,
Reel #149.
Thanks to the pioneering spirit and determinatinon of Mrs. H. Franklin
Bray, at least two
Negro organizations are firmly established as part of the
Cleveland community.She was the first president of the
Negro Federated
Clubs here, which she helped organize 40 years ago. She also was the first paid worker of the then infant institution, the Phyllis
Wheatley Assn., in 1913, and directed it's first fund drive. After a long absence from
Cleveland, she returned in 1944 and from 1948 to 1951 served as a trustee of the Phyllis
Wheatley Assn.The former
Virginia Robins, Mrs. Bray died Friday in Chicago where she had lived for the past 10 years. She was 90. She will be buried tomorrow at Idlewild,
Mich., where she and her late husband, the Rev. H. Franklin
Bray had made their home during the late 1920's and 30's. Mrs. Bray was born in
Carter County,
Ky. She is survived by one brother, Harry
Robinson, of
Cleveland.