Mary Louise Wigginton

Henry and Mary Louise Gray in 1955

Henry, Mary Louise Gray, Iris Sandra Bryant & Maria, Angela, and Sharon in 1965

Spurgeon Willard Napper

• Sex: F
• Born: April 21, 1917 in Louisville, Kentucky
• Died: November 22, 1988 in Boone County, Indiana
• Buried: Foral Park Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana (next to her husband, Henry Gray)
• Notes: Mary Louise gave birth to Iris Sandra in 1937. Spurgeon Willard (Bill) Napper was Sandra's father. Iris was named for the type of flower bouquet that Bill had given Mary Louise. Iris was conceived on Valentines Day during the 1937 Great Flood of Ohio River on the top floor of a building in downtown Louisville, KY. Bill was a very good musician that played in a popular big band back in the 1940's. He died on July 3, 1978 of a Cerebral Embolus at his home in Louisville, KY.
  
  Mary Louise later married Charles Moffet in 1945. Mary Louise and Charles Moffet had a daughter named Ethal Carol Moffet. Mary Louise and Charles divorced in the early 1950's.
  
  After Mary Louise married Henry Gray, they moved to Indianapolis, Indiana. In the mid 1950's Mary Louise and Henry took over the care of their grand-daughter, Maria Elaina Bryant. They raised her as if she were their third daughter.

Father: Ray Patan

Mother: Alice M. Wigginton, b. ca 1895 in Jefferson County, Kentucky

Family 1:

• Married:

1. Iris Sandra Wigginton

Family 2: Charles Moffet, b. ca 1917

• Married:
1945

1. Ethal Carol Moffet, b. January 28, 1945 in Louisville, KY

Family 3: Henry Phillip Gray, b. August 26, 1917 -- d. 1983 in Indiana -- buried in Foral Park Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana

• Married:
November 15, 1952

Sources:

1. Research by Angela Marie Bryant-Klein
2. Pictures contributed by Angela Marie Bryant-Klein