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Curtis B. Doss

1922 - 2011 Hymnal Number: 39 Author of "The New Life" in Rainbow Rays Born: July 4, 1922, McGhee, Arkansas. Died: January 29, 2011, Crossett, Arkansas. Buried: Crossroads Cemetery, Crossett, Arkansas. Curtis Benson Doss, born on July 4, 1922, in McGehee to Clyde Doss and Estelle Boone Clayton, was a retired accounting office employee of Georgia-Pacific Corporation in Crossett. Following his retirement, he served as minister of music for Baptist churches in Crossett, Hazen, North Little Rock, Hot Springs Village and Bastrop, LA. He was a gospel music songwriter of many years, publishing songs for Jeffress Music Co. and Stamps Quartet Music Co. of Dallas, TX. He was a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and First Baptist Church of Crossett. He and his wife, Norma, formed the Wonder State Quartet in 1947, traveling the South performing at conventions and churches. --www.findagrave.com

Eugene Wright

Hymnal Number: 126 Composer of "[We read of a land supremely fair across the rolling sea]" in Rainbow Rays

William Walker Combs

1883 - 1974 Person Name: W. W. Combs Hymnal Number: 9 Composer of "[Not by anything that we may do]" in Rainbow Rays Born: June 1883, Locust Grove, Georgia. Died: Date unknown; the 1940 census shows him in Dallas, Texas. Combs’ parents were William McCollough Combs & Mary Elizabeth Walker Combs. He married Florence Bowman in 1909. His works include: The Voice in Singing: Its Care and Development, 1938 Modern Music Reader (Stamps-Baxter Music and Printing Company, 1939) © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)