John Stephen Gray

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IN  LOVING  MEMORY  OF

John Stephen Gray

September 15, 1955 — October 15, 2023

GRAVESIDE  SERVICE

Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

Belmont Memorial Park

201 N. Teilman, Fresno, California

RELATIVES

Father:  Bobby Gray (deceased)

Mother:  B. Patricia Proudian (deceased)

Sister:  Michelle Elaine Gray (deceased)

Sister:  Melissa Proudian

THE  BRIDGE  BUILDER

By Will Allen Dromgoole

An old man, going a lone highway,

Came, at the evening, cold and gray,

To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,

Twas needful to reach the other side.

The old man crossed in the twilight dim;

The sullen stream had no fear for him;

But he turned, when safe on the other side,

And built a bridge to span the tide.

“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim, near,

“You are wasting strength with building here;

Your journey will end with the ending day;

You never again will pass this way;

You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide—

Why build you this bridge at the evening tide?”

The builder lifted his old gray head:

“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,

“There followeth after me today,

A youth, whose feet must pass this way.

This chasm, that has been naught to me,

To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.

He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;

Good friend, I am building this bridge for him.”

“May God touch you

with His healing hand

and give you the peace and comfort

you need to get through.”

Anon.

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