
Race F. Drake, Sr., 98, passed away peacefully at Moultrie Creek Nursing Home in St. Augustine, Florida on February 16, 2012.
Race was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas and resided in Little Rock, Ark. until moving to St. Augustine, Fla. in 2000. He graduated from Arkansas School for the Deaf in 1933 and Gallaudet University in 1938. He was a printer at the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock, Arkansas for almost 40 years.