{"id":831,"date":"2014-04-29T15:27:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamp1.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=831"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:23:20","slug":"in-memory-of-anne-reed-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2014\/04\/29\/in-memory-of-anne-reed-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"In memory of Anne Reed Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gray,<\/a>\u00a0 The St. Joseph community lost an outstanding citizen when Anne Reed Gray passed away Jan. 13, 2014. She will be fondly remembered by many organizations in the community as an active volunteer and an advocate for many important causes. Her family established an endowed scholarship fund for Missouri Western students in her memory.<\/p>\n

The scholarship is for students in the arts, including, music, art and theatre.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe arts were mom\u2019s passion and her background,\u201d said her son, Pete Gray, CEO and President of Gray Manufacturing. She earned more than 42 credit hours from Missouri Western, which were mostly in painting classes. She also took art lessons from local artists and won many awards in local art shows. In 1995, she helped Al Kost \u201932 paint the mural in the St. Joseph Junior College Room in the Blum Union.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe loved painting in oils, and some are hanging in our building (Gray Manufacturing) today,\u201d said her husband, Joe Gray.<\/p>\n

Starting an endowed scholarship in her memory is fitting, because she and her husband helped many Missouri Western students with college expenses over the years. Pete Gray said they wanted to establish a scholarship for his mother, but the employees at Gray Manufacturing suggested it be an endowed scholarship. The family, Gray Manufacturing employees, friends and community members have all contributed to the scholarship fund.<\/p>\n

Joe and Anne have always been supportive of Missouri Western. In fact, the initial meeting to talk about fundraising for the Glenn E. Marion Memorial Clock Tower now on campus was held in their home.<\/p>\n

Anne Gray volunteered for the League of Women Voters, Cathedral School PTA council, Audubon Society, First Presbyterian Church, Meals on Wheels and at the food kitchen.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a believer in being publicly active in the things she supported,\u201d Joe said. \u201cAnd if she believed in something, she put her whole heart and soul in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pete said as active and involved as she was in the community, she was a great mother to her eight children. \u201cIn our neighborhood, our house was the place to be,\u201d Pete said. \u201cWhen we sat down to eat, we always had neighbor kids eating with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe also had a lot of little traditions with the holidays that I continue with my kids today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Anne grew up in Philadelphia. She met Joe when he was in the Navy and she was dating his friend. The friend set Joe up on a double date with Anne and him, and it didn\u2019t quite work out as the friend intended.<\/p>\n

They married in 1947 and moved back to St. Joseph in 1952 to co-found Gray Manufacturing with Joe\u2019s father, Joseph Herman Gray.<\/p>\n

She and Joe were married 66 years when she died. She is survived by eight children, 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

To contribute to the Anne Reed Gray Memorial Arts Scholarship, contact the Missouri Western State University Foundation at (816) 271-5647.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 The St. Joseph community lost an outstanding citizen when Anne Reed Gray passed away Jan. 13, 2014. She will be fondly remembered by many organizations in the community as an active volunteer and an advocate for many important causes. Her family established an endowed scholarship fund for Missouri Western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}