Longtime Oak Forest volunteer’s name lives on at animal agency where she helped

Not one to be put off by a hissing kitten, Laura Gray had a knack for calming even the feistiest felines at the Oak Forest Animal Control & Care Center.

“She would just snuggle with them, pull them in,” said Dawn Isenhart-Copp, Gray’s friend and colleague. “She was so excited when she’d come in that door.”

Gray, who died in February, was a relentless advocate for the dogs and cats at the Oak Forest facility, Isenhart-Copp said. The two animal lovers started Friends of Oak Forest...