Gray discusses her service in the WAVES as a yeoman from 1943 to 1946, including boot camp at US Naval Training School (WR) and yeoman school at Oklahoma State University as well as her assignment at the Norfolk Naval Air Station during the war. She was head of demobilization office at Bainbridge, Maryland, by the end of the war. Joining the WAVES was the most important thing she did in her life.

Gray was born in Scituate, RI in 1923. She graduated from Coventry High School in 1941 and worked as an office clerk before joining the WAVES. She graduated from RI College and taught English in RI public schools before retiring and running a girls camp in Maine. Part of the WAVES in WWII Oral History Project.