Welcome to the Tim Gray Memorial site. This site has been built to raise funds for the Memorial Fund. Proceeds from this fund go to scholarships for participants in the White Plains Plainsmen hockey program at Ebersole Ice Rink in White Plains and to provide scholarship funds for students at SUNY-Plattsburgh.
Tim was murdered on October 10, 2004. His killer has been caught, tried, found guilty and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. The Gray family is extremely grateful to the Bethlehem, New York Police Department and to the Albany County District Attorney's Office for the work they did in delivering justice for Tim.
Tim went to White Plains Public Schools from kindergarten through 12th grade. He attended and graduated from SUNY-Plattsburgh. While at SUNY-Plattsburgh, he was an active member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. He participated in many of the programs that the White Plains Recreation department operated and sponsored.
Growing up, Tim worked as a skate guard at Ebersole Ice Rink and in the White Plains Recreation Department Summer Camp program. He also worked for Sam's of Gedney Way. He worked at Playland as a ride operator and later as a ride manager. His experiences there led him to working at Disney World. He also worked for Poland Spring in White Plains and later Culligan Water in Albany.
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It has been 5 years since Tim was killed. And yet, it seems like yesterday.
Death is nothing at all. I have slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed, at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Pray, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effect, without trace of shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was, there is an unbroken continuity. What is death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.
ALL IS WELL.
-Canon Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)
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