Ray Ely

My heartfelt condolences to the family of Ray Ely. I met Ray several years ago when I volunteered to serve lunch at the senior center. Ray was my very favorite person there and when I left to take on more hours at work, we continued our friendship by telephone. I so loved hearing the stories and adventures from childhood on. He had an amazing work ethic and knowing I was apprehensive he encouraged me to pursue training in a new field. He told me his attitude had always been "if someone...

Over the last few years of my Grandpa's life his short term memory was not so good but he could sure remember his life as a child and young man. When I would visit he'd tell stories of his childhood with his brother Bud, how he first met my Granny Marcelle and even the words he asked her father the first night they met, how he would ride shotgun with his Dad as they delivered their moonshine into town during the proabition, all the cars and miles he had driven over his lifetime and all the...