March 26, 2014
LGBT activisit Vernita Gray and her wife, Pat Ewart. Gray passed away last week after succumbing to breast cancer.
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Vernita Gray, of Illinois' First Legally Married Couple Passes Away
Vernita Gray, one half of Illinois’ first legally married lesbian couple, passed away last Tuesday after succumbing to breast cancer. Gray, 65, married her wife, Pat Ewart, on November 27 last year, after a federal judge made a ruling in respect to Gray’s terminal illness that allowed Gray and Ewart to marry before Illinois’ Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act took effect on June 1, 2014.