In Memory of Lieutenant General (Retired) Robert E. Gray First Baptist Church Augusta, Ga.

IN MEMORY
OF
LIEUTENANT GENERAL (Retired) ROBERT E. GRAY
First Baptist Church
Augusta, Georgia
ORDER OF SERVICE
8 December 2011
Prelude
Greeting
1100
U.S. Army Signal Corps Band
Dr. C. Gregory DeLoach III
Pastor, First Baptist Church
Laying of the Wreath
MG Alan Lynn
Commanding General,
U.S. Army Signal Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon
COL Marc Harris
Regimental Adjutant,
U.S. Army Signal Regiment
CSM (Ret) James Hussey
Former Signal Corps Regimental CSM
Words of Grace
Chaplain (COL) Craig Wiley
Installation Chaplain, Fort Gordon
Song of Hope How Great Thou Art! SPC Jamison Walker
U.S. Army Signal Corps Band
Scripture Reading Isaiah 40:25-31
Dr. Rodger Murchison
Assistant Pastor, First Baptist Church
*Lords Prayer All
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory,
For ever and ever. Amen.
Words of Remembrance
MG Alan Lynn
Commanding General,
U.S. Army Signal Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon
MG (Ret) Wallace Arnold
Former Commander, Army Reserve Officer Training Corps
BG (Ret) Vernon Spaulding
Former Commander, D.D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center
Special Musical Selection Ellis Johnson and Charlotte Jenkins
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Words of Hope and Courage
Chaplain Craig Wiley
Song of Peace SPC Jamison Walker
It Is Well With My Soul
^Benediction Chaplain Craig Wiley
^Military Honors
**Rifle Salute
Taps
Presentation of the Flag
Postlude U.S. Army Signal Corps Band
(Please remain in place while the family departs the Chapel)
Congregation Please Stand
**During Honors Soldiers will discharge their rifles
In Memory of
LIEUTENANT GENERAL (Retired) ROBERT E. GRAY
18 October 1941 - 23 November 2011
General Gray is a native of Algoma, West Virginia. He was born of the union of Lloyd
Gray Sr. and Hattie B. Parker Gray on 18 October 1941. He graduated from Elkhorn
High School at Elkhorn WV. in 1959. He later attended and graduated from THE"
Ohio State University with a Bachelors Degree in Computer and Information Science.
He was awarded a Masters of Military Arts and Sciences Degree from the United States
Army Command and General Staff College. He is a graduate of the National Security
Seminar at Harvard University.
In May of 1966. upon his graduation from the Officer Candidate School at Fort Gordon,
Georgia. General Gray was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U. S. Army
Signal Corps. He is a graduate of the Signal Officer Advance Course, the Command and
General Staff College, the United States Army War College, the Joint War Fighting
Course for General Officers and a Senior Fellow at the Joint Forces Staff College.
His most significant career assignments have been: Signal Olticer, 56th Field Artillery
Group (Pershing); Commander, Company C, 97th Signal Battalion; Commander,
Company A, 501st Signal Battalion; 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); Plans and
Operations Officer. Directorate of Security, Defense Intelligence Agency; Executive
Officer, 50th Signal Battalion (Airborne Corps); Chief, Readiness Command Plans
Branch. G-3, XVIII Airborne Corps; Commander, 82d Signal Battalion, 82nd Airborne
Division; Chief, C2 Division, United States Army Combined Arms Combat Develop-
ment Activity, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Commander, 35th Signal Brigade, XVIII
Airborne Corps Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Special Assistant to the Commander, XVIII
Airborne Corps. Fort Bragg. North Carolina; Deputy Commanding General / Deputy
Commandant, United States Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon. Fort Gordon, Geor-
gia; Deputy Director for Plans. Programs and Systems, Office of the Secretary ot the
Army, Washington. DC; Commanding General, United States Army Signal Center and
Fort Gordon and simultaneously Chief of Signal, United States Army; Chief of Staff,
United States Army. Europe and Seventh Army. He was appointed as the Deputy Com-
mander in Chief, United States Army, Europe and Seventh Army, and promoted to
Lieutenant General in May 1995.
General Gray's awards and Decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal (2nd
OLC), Legion of Merit (2nd OLC), Bronze Star, Air Medal, Meritorious Service Medal
(3rd OLC), Army Commendation Medal (2nd OLC), Army Good Conduct Medal, Na-
tional Defense Service Medal (2nd OLC); Vietnam Service Medal (4th OLC); several
foreign awards, Army Staff Badge and the Master Parachutist Badge.
General Gray retired as Deputy Commander In Chief, U. S. Army Europe and Seventh
Army on 1 August 1997. At the time of his death General Gray was serving as Presi-
dent and CEO of Gray Consultants Incorporated. He is survived by his wife. Annie,
three children, seven grandchildren, his mother, two sisters, one brother and a host of
relatives and friends.