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Submitted: 9/20/23 • Approved: 9/20/23 • Last Updated: 9/23/23 • R250695-G0-S3
June 8, 1921 - March 18, 2005
In Loving Memory
Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN) - Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Jean Gray Masengill passed away on Friday, March 18, 2005, in Burlington, Wash.
She was born in 1921 in Bakewell, Tenn., the daughter of Elizabeth Wall and William Gray. She grew up in Chattanooga, then attended Berea College, where she was a passionate thespian.
During World War II, she married Hal A. Masengill and spent most of her adult life living in Blountville, Tenn. In the early 1960s, she completed her bachelor's degree and began a 20-year career teaching English at Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingspsort, Tenn. After retirement, she lived in Durham, N.C., Fort Collins, Colo., Chattanooga and Burlington, Wash.
She is survived by daughters, Ann, Ellen, Liz and Logan; nine grandchildren, Hunter, Logan, Lauren, Jack, Kyra, Kate, Elle, Gray and Milo; and nieces and nephews, Betty Ray, Mary Gray, David Gray, Frank and Wayne Gray, Hope Howell, Bill Brownlow and Dick Tankersley.
Arrangements are through Williamson & Sons Funeral Home in Soddy-Daisy.
Contributed on 9/20/23
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