Find a Grave: 2026-10-06

URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3813396/edwin-vincent-gray (Chrome; reached by search for Edwin Gray, born 1925, died 1990, Riverside CA: 1 match).

Found [web: URL above]

"Edwin Vincent Gray Sr.", marked VETERAN. Birth "8 Jan 1925, Washington, District of Columbia". Death "20 Apr 1990 (aged 65), Sparks, Washoe County, Nevada". Burial "Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside", plot "27, 1479".
"Originally Created by: US Veterans Affairs Office. Added: 3 Mar 2000". So the core dates come from the VA's national cemetery burial data, a government record. Family members are listed as parent, spouse and siblings; that link-up is user-maintained.
Ancestry record hints (not opened; a subscription site): "Nevada, U.S., Death Index, 1980-2012", "U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index", "U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947", 1930 and 1940 censuses.

Claim 5: this is a government-derived record of the death date (20 April 1990), the place of death (Sparks NV) and the burial (Riverside National Cemetery). Lindemann's "April 1989 ... at his Sparks, Nevada shop" has the right month and place but a year one year early. KeelyNet 2000 has the burial in Riverside right, but the year (1993) and the place of death (a Riverside trailer) disagree with this record. The record says nothing about the cause of death.
A burial in a national cemetery confirms military service, which agrees with Lindemann's "Army then Navy service". The VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator would give branch and dates. Next run.
Next records: a Newspapers.com obituary-index entry (Reno Gazette-Journal or Riverside Press-Enterprise, April 1990), and the Nevada death certificate (cause of death, informant, place).