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    2. FULTON: Travis Moore Gray, 92, died Thursday, June 08, 2000, at the North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born April 10, 1908, to Martin Mattox and Ida Frances Moore Gray. He was a resident of Dorsey for more than 70 years. He was a 1929 graduate of Itawamba Agricultural High School. He was a member of Hopewell Baptist Church, where he was treasurer and a Sunday school teacher. He was the first paid school bus driver in Itawamba County, a fact that was written about in the Itawamba County Times newspaper in 1997 and in a "Journal of Mississippi History" article. He was a past president of the Dorsey Rural Community Development Club. An avid gardener and accomplished tomato grower, he enjoyed sharing his garden produce with friends and neighbors. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Hopewell Baptist Church with Bro Grover Laird, Bro Eugene Digby and Bro Danny Pitts officiating. Burial will be in Keyes Cemetery. Senter Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Survivors include his wife, Cuple Works Gray of Dorsey; four daughters, Montine Posey of Tupelo, Martha Berryhill of Hoover, Ala., Ina Kimbrough of Florence and Ida Ballard of Brandon; a sister, Sue Burch of Keizer, Ore.; five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Johnny Mann, Adron Mattox, John Ed Gray, Robin Gray, Tim Berryhill and James McMillian.

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