# Name: Joseph Forrest RAY
# Sex: M
# Birth: 7 NOV 1892 in Adams Co, IN
# Death: 10 OCT 1971 in Decatur, Adams, Indiana
# Burial: 12 OCT 1971 Monroe Twp, Adams, Indiana; Spring Hill Cemetery
# Reference Number: 38064
Father: Shelby RAY b: in Adams Co, IN
Mother: Alice Lorena POGUE b: in Adams Co, IN
News Banner, Wells County, Indiana; Monday, Oct 11, 1971
J. FORREST RAY FUNERAL TUESDAY
J. Forrest Ray, 78, of Monroe died Sunday in Decatur Hospital after an illness of three months.
He was born in Adams County and was a retired General Electric Co., employee of Decatur. He was a lifetime member of Blue Creek Twp. Conservation Club.
Surviving are two sons, Fred F. Ray, Chief of Fire Prevention Bureau in Fort Wayne, and Harold Ray, LaJolla, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Harry Beitler, Kendalville, Mrs. Wayne Hirschy, Monroe, and Mrs. Lee Parrish, Monroe; one sister, Mrs. Chauncey Aurand, Grand Rapids, Mich.; one brother, Wilfred Ray, North Manchester; 11 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. His wife, Leslie, died in 1959.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Winteregg-Linn Funeral Home, Decatur, Rev. Donald E. Wilks officiating. Burial will be in Spring Hill Cemetery near Monroe. Friends may call after 2 p.m. today.
# Name: Joseph Forrest RAY
# Sex: M
# Birth: 7 NOV 1892 in Adams Co, IN
# Death: 10 OCT 1971 in Decatur, Adams, Indiana
# Burial: 12 OCT 1971 Monroe Twp, Adams, Indiana; Spring Hill Cemetery
# Reference Number: 38064
Father: Shelby RAY b: in Adams Co, IN
Mother: Alice Lorena POGUE b: in Adams Co, IN
News Banner, Wells County, Indiana; Monday, Oct 11, 1971
J. FORREST RAY FUNERAL TUESDAY
J. Forrest Ray, 78, of Monroe died Sunday in Decatur Hospital after an illness of three months.
He was born in Adams County and was a retired General Electric Co., employee of Decatur. He was a lifetime member of Blue Creek Twp. Conservation Club.
Surviving are two sons, Fred F. Ray, Chief of Fire Prevention Bureau in Fort Wayne, and Harold Ray, LaJolla, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Harry Beitler, Kendalville, Mrs. Wayne Hirschy, Monroe, and Mrs. Lee Parrish, Monroe; one sister, Mrs. Chauncey Aurand, Grand Rapids, Mich.; one brother, Wilfred Ray, North Manchester; 11 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. His wife, Leslie, died in 1959.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Winteregg-Linn Funeral Home, Decatur, Rev. Donald E. Wilks officiating. Burial will be in Spring Hill Cemetery near Monroe. Friends may call after 2 p.m. today.
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