This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Babcock Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/4241 Message Board Post: Obituaries: Grayson W. Babcock. Grayson was born May 12, 1933, to Bert and Dorothy (Vail) Babcock in Geneva, Wisconsin, and passed away at home in Edmonds, Washington, on October 27, 2005. He graduated from Delevan High School in 1951; he received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and a Master of Music Education degree from Vandercook College in Chicago, Ilinois. He married Ann Bartels in 1956. He was a high school band director in Wisconsin for 35 years, and continued to lead his own big band and combo for many years. After his retirement from teaching, he traveled with several well-known dance bands, including the Dick Jurgens, Russ Morgan, Jan Garber, Henry Cuesta, Guy Lombardo and Jimmy Dorsey bands. Grayson and his wife moved to Edmonds in 1998, and he performed with several Seattle area bands. He is survived by his wife of almost 50 years, Ann; their three sons, Mike (Gwen), of Seattle, Washington, Scott (Ania), of Sh! oreline, Washington, and Steve (Mary Lynn), of Denton, Texas; four grandchildren Brian, Kevin, Christopher, and Maria, and his brother, Leslie (Joyce) in New Bern, North Carolina. A celebration of Grayson's life will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, November 5, at Trinity Lutheran Chruch, 6215 196th St. S.W., Lynnwood, WA 98038. Memorials may be made to the Trinity Lutheran Church Music Department. Private interment. Arrangements by Beck's Funeral Home, Edmonds, Washington, 425-771-1234.