Jerome C. Gray Funeral Program
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Jerome C. Gray Funeral Program
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Program for the funeral of Jerome C. Gray, held at Mt. Olive Baptist Church on Thursday, November 16, 2006 and officiated by Rev. James E. Victor, Jr.
Funeral Programs located in “The Personal Papers of Birdie and Mabel Alston, 1905-2019.” Series 1, Funeral Programs, are over one hundred programs from funerals the Alston’s attended throughout Virginia and the Washington DC area. They contain information about the deceased’s life and family, and many include photographs; the deceased were part of the area’s Black community.
Birdie (1919-2020) and Mable (nee Shirley) Alston (1920-2017) were married neighborhood activists and prominent community members in the Halls Hill/Highview Park area. The Alston’s came to Arlington in 1944 and settled in Halls Hill in 1947
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Jerome C. Gray
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Mt. Olive Baptist Church
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Funeral
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