Jack Clair Gravatt
The memorial service for Jack Clair Gravatt will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the All Veterans Memorial. The Rev. Lee Hoskins of the First United Methodist Church will conduct the service. Military honors will be provided by an honor detail from the U.S. Marine Corps. Mr. Gravatt was cremated.
The family suggests that, instead of flowers, memorial contributions be made to the Scholarship Fund of the 9th Engineer Battalion, Fleet Marine Force, and sent in care of the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, P.0. Box 175, Emporia, KS 66801.
Mr. Gravatt died Thursday, June 7, 2007, at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan. He was 76.
Mr. Gravatt retired from the U.S. Marine Corps as a master sergeant in 1971. During his service he served two tours in Vietnam and also served in Korea during the Korean War. After he retired, he returned to Emporia and operated Jack’s Donut Shop on Rural Street for several years.
The son of Clarence and Bessie Brady Gravatt, he was born Jan. 23, 1931, in Emporia. He married Eunice Turley on July 7, 1952, in Bentonville, Ark. She survives.
Mr. Gravatt was a member of the First United Methodist Church. He also was a member of Emporia Masonic Lodge 12, A.F. & A.M. and York Rite Bodies; American Legion Ball-McColm Post 5; Veterans of Foreign Wars Lowry-Funston Post 1980 and the Emporia Antique Car Club. He was a woodcarver.
He is also survived by one son, James A. Gravatt of Mission; one brother, Jerry Gravatt of Indianapolis, Ind.; one sister, Joyce Zinn of Troy, Texas; and a granddaughter.