Son of David C. Shatto and Susan Jane Heneman

Raymond Shatto was a serial monogamist. Family members lost track of how many marriages he had and, generally, lost track of him as well.

News item in Spirit Lake Beacon, 10 September 1931, states that he had been married twice in the last year. Below are his known marriages.

Ruth Clara Barton
William Wayne Shatto - 14 January 1931 (deceased)
- adopted by and took name of mother's second husband, Burkett

Dorothy Frances Taylor. Divorce granted in June 1935
Ronald Ray Shatto - 27 December 1931 (deceased)

Dorothy Ohmart 25 February 1937. Vermillion, Clay County, Iowa
Children:
Daughter - 5 November 1937

May Lucille Guidry late 1940's. Texas
Son - 9 September 1949

Married Alta Elizabeth Gregston. San Marcos, Caldwell County, Texas.
Children:
Son - 6 October 1951
Daughter - 5 November 1954

Married Carol Ann Keffler 28 June 1963. Divorced 11 October 1968, Bexar County, Texas
Children:
Son - 28 April 1964
Daughter - 29 December 1966

Lucille Marcella Kramer (widow of Clifford Joseph Nelson) 21 November 1969. Becker County, Minnesota
No children

Ray also had a number of problems with the law that put him in and out of jail in several states, usually involving forgery, bad checks and confidence games. He evidently found some peace in his last years
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Montana Standard (Butte, Montana)
1 June 1972, p. 10

Ray Shatto, 63, an employee the last two weeks at the Warm Springs State Hospital, died Tuesday afternoon in his living quarters on the hospital grounds.

Shatto had been dead several hours when found by fellow employees. Coroner Arthur A. Longfellow reported Shatto died a natural death.

He was born in Spencer, Iowa, March 20, 1909, and resided in Minnesota and Texas before he came to Montana. He had resided at Missoula, Galen and Deer Lodge a number of years before his employment at the State Hospital.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lucille Shatto, St. Paul, Minn.; three sisters, Mrs. Glen Lowe, Mrs. John Snyder, both of Sanborn, Iowa; Mrs. Pearl Beving, Spencer, Iowa, and two brothers, Lester, Omaha and Glen, Spencer.

The body is at the Finnegan Co. Funeral Home
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Montana Standard (Butte, Montana)
3 June 1972, p. 14

SHATTO -- Graveside services will be conducted for the late Ray Shatto at 9 o'clock this (Saturday) morning in the Mount Olivet Cemetery. The Rev. Ervin Rymes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church will officiate.