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==Family and death==
==Family and death==
Grey and his wife, the former Lillian Tooke, whom he married in 1927, had twin daughters born in 1941, Martha Ann Cantrell and her husband, Richard, and Mary Beth Burg and husband, Jules L. Burg, Jr. (1923-2011).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Jules-Burg&lc=7863&pid=153502123&mid=4803597|title=Jules L. Burg, Jr., September 2, 2011|publisher=obits.dignitymemorial.com|accessdate=July 3, 2012}}</ref>lolokmkg There are three Grey grandchildren, Bryant Curtis Cantrell, Patrick Grey Cantrell, and Joe David Burg.<ref name=bio/>
Grey and his wife, the former Lillian Tooke, whom he married in 1927, had twin daughters born in 1941, Martha Ann Cantrell and her husband, Richard, and Mary Beth Burg and husband, Jules L. Burg, Jr. (1923-2011).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Jules-Burg&lc=7863&pid=153502123&mid=4803597|title=Jules L. Burg, Jr., September 2, 2011|publisher=obits.dignitymemorial.com|accessdate=July 3, 2012}}</ref> There are three Grey grandchildren, Bryant Curtis Cantrell, Patrick Grey Cantrell, and Joe David Burg.<ref name=bio/>
Grey died at the age of seventy-eight of a lengthy illness in Baptist Hospital in New Orleans.<ref name=obit/> He is interred in Metairie in Jefferson Parish, across the [[Mississippi River]] from New Orleans.<ref name=jdg/><ref>The cemetery in Metairie where Grey is interred is unidentified.</ref>
Grey died at the age of seventy-eight of a lengthy illness in Baptist Hospital in New Orleans.<ref name=obit/> He is interred in Metairie in Jefferson Parish, across the [[Mississippi River]] from New Orleans.<ref name=jdg/><ref>The cemetery in Metairie where Grey is interred is unidentified.</ref>
G. Earl Guinn, the president of Louisiana College in Pineville from 1951 to 1975 and like Grey a native Kentuckian, said of his friend: "I feel toward J. D. Grey about like [[Winston Churchill]] felt toward his friend, the first F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead. ... I would rather have J. D. Grey at my side, cataracts, arthritis, and all, than 99 percent of the people in all of the world."<ref>Cole and Lee, ''St. J. D.'', p. 41</ref>
G. Earl Guinn, the president of Louisiana College in Pineville from 1951 to 1975 and like Grey a native Kentuckian, said of his friend: "I feel toward J. D. Grey about like [[Winston Churchill]] felt toward his friend, the first F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead. ... I would rather have J. D. Grey at my side, cataracts, arthritis, and all, than 99 percent of the people in all of the world."<ref>Cole and Lee, ''St. J. D.'', p. 41</ref>
==References==
==References==
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