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aircrafts on patrol through often-heavy
fog, persisting, as he recalled, on a diet of
corn flakes.
On October 16, 1942, Mr. Gray married
Barbara Carroll Bintz of Salt Lake City,
Utah. Together the couple raised three
children, Pamela Carroll Gray (born in
1944), Elizabeth Sherman Gray (born in
1947), and Prentiss Sherman Gray (born
in 1955).
After his discharge from the military,
Mr. Gray entered into a career in bank-
ing, becoming vice president of J. Henry
Schroder Bank and Trust Company from
1945 until 1959. He later joined Merrill
Lynch, where he established the corpora-
tion’s first overseas offices in Switzerland.
Mr. Gray and his young family moved back
and forth across the Atlantic several times
for his job. Mrs. Gray enjoyed learning to
cook the local cuisine and became well
practiced in the art of setting up a house
by the time the family had lived in 15 dif-
ferent residences. The Grays spent the
most time in Sands Point on Long Island
and, later, in London.
Mr. Gray retired from Merrill Lynch in
1982. In retirement, he enjoyed fly-fishing,
tennis, and golf. His many travel destina-
tions included Greece, Italy, Mexico, Tan-
zania, Singapore, Bali, Hong Kong, Japan,
Quebec, Puerto Rico, England, Yugoslavia,
China, and Fiji.
An avid sportsman and conservationist
from his childhood adventures on the
family ranches in Wyoming, Mr. Gray was
a longtime member of the Boone and
Crockett Club, the Angler’s Club of New
York, the North Woods Club, and Parkside
Angling Club. He was also a member of
the Brook Club in New York City and the
Nassau Club in Princeton, N.J. In an effort
to pay homage to his father’s relief efforts
in Belgium during World War I, Mr. Gray
became an avid supporter of the Belgian
American Educational Foundation, serv-
ing as both director and treasurer.
Mr. Gray’s wife, Barbara, died on Decem-
ber 21, 2014. His 72-year marriage to her
was, in his own words, “the most interest-
ing event in my life.” She was, he wrote in
his correspondence to St. Paul’s, “charm-
ing, talented, gorgeous, and…looking over
my shoulder.” Mr. Gray also lost his eldest
daughter, Pamela Gray Martindale, to
ovarian cancer in 2011.
Mr. Gray is survived by his daughter,
Elizabeth Gray Lilleston; his son, Prentiss
Gray; and seven grandchildren.
1937
Llewellyn “Lew” Powell, Jr.
a World War II vet-
eran, who loved to
travel, died on De-
cember 19, 2015,
at the age of 97.
He was a resident
of the Duncaster
Retirement Com-
munity in Bloom-
field, Conn.
Mr. Powell was born in Schenectady, N.Y.,
on July 11, 1918, to Llewellyn Powell and
Elizabeth Goodwin Beach Powell Capen.
He was raised in Schenectady and entered
St. Paul’s School as a Second Former in
the fall of 1932. He competed with Delphian
and Halcyon. Mr. Powell eventually grad-
uated from the Kingswood School in West
Hartford, Conn. He later attended Okla-
homa Baptist University.
Mr. Powell loved his time at St. Paul’s,
where he made many wonderful friends.
He always wore his jacket with the School
shield proudly.
Mr. Powell served in the U.S. Army
during World War II. He married Par-
thenia Grier in 1947, and together the
couple had three children. Mr. Powell
worked for General Dynamics in Groton,
Conn., and later became both member-
ship director and harbormaster for the
Mystic Seaport museum in Mystic, Conn.
Although Mr. Powell retired to Sarasota,
Fla., he eventually returned to West Hart-
ford. He also married again, to Peggy Smith
Marsh Powell. The couple enjoyed 29 years
of marriage until his death.
Mr. Powell was a member of several
clubs and organizations, including the
Hartford Golf Club, Mason’s Island Yacht
Club, and Kiwanis International. He also
served as emeritus editor for Duncaster
Retirement Community’s magazine,
The
Thistle
. He also enjoyed traveling, favoring
cruises on barges, freighters, and wind-
jammers. In addition, Mr. Powell was an
avid reader.
Mr. Powell was predeceased by his
brother, Charles Beach Powell, and his
stepson, Terry Marsh.
Survivors include his wife, Peggy; his
sister, Eunice Powell Grover; his children,
Parthenia “Peri” Powell Lagassa, Llewellyn
“Bos” Bosworth Powell, and Ashley Powell
Hanson; his stepchildren, James Marsh
and Cathy Marsh Anderson; 12 grand-
children and step-grandchildren; several
nieces and nephews; and many friends
and caregivers.
1938
Haliburton Fales II
respected attor-
ney, Navy veteran,
husband, and
father of five,
died peacefully
on November 2,
2015, at his home
in Gladstone, N.J.,
with his family
by his side. He
was 96 years old.
Mr. Fales was born in New York City on
August 7, 1919, the second son of lawyer
DeCoursey Fales of the Form of 1907 and
Dorothy Mitchell Fales. He attended The
Buckley School in New York City before
entering St. Paul’s School as a First Former
in the fall of 1932. Mr. Fales followed his
father, his uncles, Haliburton Fales (1904)
and Clarence Mitchell (1909), and his
brother, DeCoursey Fales ’37, to SPS. His
SPS relations also included several cousins.
At SPS, he served as secretary of the
Cadmean Literary Society, played fourth
Isthmian hockey, rowed with Shattuck,
and was a member of the Library Associa-
tion and Le Cercle Fran
ç
ais. Mr. Fales’s
primary interest at SPS was writing for
Horae Scholasticae
, the student literary
magazine, of which he served as editor
in his final year.
He went on to Harvard, from 1938 to
1941, where he studied English and phil-
osophy. But the undergraduate education
of Mr. Fales was cut short by his enlistment
in the U.S. Navy. He served four years of
active duty, until 1945. From 1942 to 1943,
he was the commanding officer of the
U.S.S. Alabaster
PYc-21, which patrolled
the Atlantic Coast until it, with Mr. Fales
aboard, was sent to the Pacific in 1944,
remaining there until the end of the war.
Upon his discharge, he was a Lieutenant
Commander. Mr. Fales continued his edu-
DECEASED
