John Henry Gray III ’57

John Henry Gray III ’57, of Winston-Salem, N.C., died peacefully March 5 at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home from Alzheimer’s disease. Gray was born April 11, 1935, in Washington, D.C., to the late John Henry Gray, Jr. and Elizabeth Nattress Gray of Statesville, N.C. He graduated from Davidson and Wake Forest College Bowman Gray School of Medicine. He completed a one year internship at the Medical College of Virginia, one year as a resident in internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Tex., two years of graduate training as a fellow in internal medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, and additional graduate training as a fellow in hypertension-renal disease there. He served his country for two years as a senior assistant surgeon in the Public Health Service Reserve Corps of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in Washington, D.C. Gray moved to Winston in 1968 to begin his practice and become board certified in internal medicine. He practiced for 30 years. He leaves behind his cherished and loving wife of 37 years, Mary Bailey Gray, 1771 Robinhood Rd., Winston-Salem, NC 27104, and his daughters, Emily Anne Gray and Amy Elizabeth Gray (Steven David Brook). Gray loved the great outdoors with boyish enthusiasm. He was an avid fly fisherman. He truly believed in practicing conservation so that others could enjoy what he had experienced in his life.