Jack Ross Gray 1927 - 2017

GRAY, LANGLAND

Posted By: Connie Swearingen -Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/20/2017 at 20:48:42

Sioux City Journal
26 August 2017

Sioux City, formerly Rockwell City, Iowa

Jack R. Gray 90, a longtime attorney, of Sioux City, formerly of Rockwell City, passed away Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, at Holy Spirit Retirement Home in Sioux City.

Memorial services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Paul's Lutheran & Presbyterian Church in Rockwell City, with the Rev. James Hoover Mossman officiating. Burial of cremains will be in Rosehill Cemetery. Visitation will be 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Palmer & Swank Funeral Home, Rockwell City. Visitation will resume 5:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Twin Lakes Golf Club.

Jack Ross Gray was born on Aug. 9, 1927, in Rockwell City. He graduated from Rockwell City High School, with the class of 1945. Jack attended college in Iowa City, Iowa, and graduated from the College of Law at the University of Iowa in 1952.

On Sept. 7, 1952, he was united in marriage to Audrey A. Langland. The couple established their home in Rockwell City, where Jack practiced law with his father, uncle, and brothers at Gray & Gray Law Firm. He later practiced law with David Gidel at Gray & Gidel Law Firm. Audrey passed away in 2013, and later that year Jack retired from law. In 2014, he became a resident of Holy Spirit Retirement Home in Sioux City.

Jack was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran & Presbyterian Church, Twin Lakes Golf Club, Rockwell City Rotary Club, and the Iowa State Bar Association. He was also past county attorney, and past city attorney. He enjoyed playing snooker, bridge, and cribbage. Jack collected nearly everything, and he loved his hometown.

Jack is survived by his son, John C. Gray and his wife, Di of Sioux City; daughter, Anne Pergiel and her husband, Charles of Hillsboro, Ore.; five grandchildren, Joe (Stephanie) Canny, Ross, Kathryn, and John Pergiel, and Jack Calhoon Gray; great-grandson, Calhoon Harold Canny; and other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Audrey; son, Todd Gray; his parents, Ross C. and Jennie Geist Gray; brothers, Ward, Lynn, and Dale Gray; and sister, Jean Hull.

In lieu of flowers memorials can be left to Holy Spirit Retirement Home, St. Paul's Lutheran & Presbyterian Church, or Twin Lakes Golf Club.