Name: Aaron Ray
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Birth Date: 8 Nov 1913
Birth Place: Ballard, Kentucky
Death Date: 19 Jan 1993
Father: Henry Ray
Mother: Lizzie Collins
Published in The Paducah Sun (McCracken Co., KY), Thurs., 21 Jan 1993 - Services for Aaron "Jake" Ray, 79, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Burks Chapel AME Church. The Rev. Leon Maxwell will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Mr. Ray, a native of Ballard County, died at 7:57 a.m. Tuesday at Lourdes Hospital.
He was a member of Hills Chapel AME Church where he served on Steward Board. He was a retired employee of the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, where he worked for 32 years.
His parents were Henry and Elizabeth Ray.
Surviving are his wife, Ethel Ray; two sons, Nathaniel Ray and Aaron Ray, both of Akron, Ohio; two daughters, Mary Hammonds of Washington, D.C., and Barbara Townsley of Paducah; three brothers, Q.L. Ray and Edward Ray, both of Milwaukee, and Herdis Ray of Paducah; four sisters, Gerlie Smith, Edna Elliott, Mary Burt and Earlie C. McCury, all of Milwaukee; 15 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Name: Aaron Ray
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Birth Date: 8 Nov 1913
Birth Place: Ballard, Kentucky
Death Date: 19 Jan 1993
Father: Henry Ray
Mother: Lizzie Collins
Published in The Paducah Sun (McCracken Co., KY), Thurs., 21 Jan 1993 - Services for Aaron "Jake" Ray, 79, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Burks Chapel AME Church. The Rev. Leon Maxwell will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Mr. Ray, a native of Ballard County, died at 7:57 a.m. Tuesday at Lourdes Hospital.
He was a member of Hills Chapel AME Church where he served on Steward Board. He was a retired employee of the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, where he worked for 32 years.
His parents were Henry and Elizabeth Ray.
Surviving are his wife, Ethel Ray; two sons, Nathaniel Ray and Aaron Ray, both of Akron, Ohio; two daughters, Mary Hammonds of Washington, D.C., and Barbara Townsley of Paducah; three brothers, Q.L. Ray and Edward Ray, both of Milwaukee, and Herdis Ray of Paducah; four sisters, Gerlie Smith, Edna Elliott, Mary Burt and Earlie C. McCury, all of Milwaukee; 15 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
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