Roy Albert Gray Jr.

Roy A. Gray Jr. “Butch” was born August 7th, 1942 in Detroit, MI to Roy Albert Gray Sr. and Anna Mazurkiewicz. After growing up and finishing high school, Butch embarked on his first adventure by becoming a United States Marine- possibly the single accomplishment he was most proud of. After five years and achieving the Rank of Corporal E4 and working as a radio operator (scope dope), he met and eventually married Rosa Flores. They moved to Southern California and had two sons, Roy Albert Gray III and Christopher Brian Gray. While still a young, working father of two, Roy worked them through college with the help of his G.I. bill and eventually graduated from California State University of Fullerton with a BA in Political Science.

After working for Amoco in Southern California, work moved Roy and family to Marysville, Washington where his new company was John Fluke. After a short working adventure to the Netherlands for John Fluke/Philips, Roy and family returned to Washington and after a few years Butch started his own successful computer Business with three other software gurus and they called themselves Terra Nova Group. After living many years as a self- employed successful businessman, Butch retired in 2001.

Throughout his life, Butch was a student of the world, fisherman, an historian of baseball, a pipe smoker and a voracious reader of the written word.

In death he leaves behind (ex-wife) Rosa Barringer; sons, Roy and Chris; grandsons, Emmett and Samuel; siblings, Sandra (Kinoshita), Ken (Gray), Katherine (Campbell) and many beloved cousins, nephews and nieces.