Richard Gray Avent, entrepreneur, educator, and lawyer, died Monday, July 21, 2008 at age 90. He was born to Col. Hugh P. Avent and Ruth Gray Avent in Palestine, Texas on April 2, 1918. .He graduated from high school in Greenville, south Carolina and attended Clemson University. He enlisted in the Army-Air Corp in 1941.

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