Raymond LaPointe

Aunt Lorna, Cousins, Spouses and Grandchildren,
We are so sorry to be writing to you after too many years on your/our loss of Uncle Ray. We've lost the family patriarch, our alpha lion with his great silvery mane...a great man who lived the fullest of lives, saw war, retired in peace and got to watch his family grow and help raise their own. Who could ask for more?
The story from Uncle Ray for which I'm most grateful is the one regarding our family name...not LaPointe as we've all...

Kathy, Suzanne & Family

We are deeply saddened by the news of your loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

Lorna and family. Dr Kelly and I would like to let you know how saddened we are to know that your husband and father has passed away. Please know that our heart and prayers are with you.
Dr Lawrence and Diane Kelly

Even as a kid, I always enjoyed it when Uncle Ray would venture back East to visit, an envoy from the vast and exotic far West come to us way up there in little New Hampshire. It was many years before Susan and I and our son Tim finally had the opportunity to go to Las Vegas to visit him and Aunt Lorna--always our favorite Montana cowgirl. It would be impossible to overstate how accommodating they and our cousins and their families were, and how welcome they made us feel while there. Each...

Having traveled West with Bob to Vegas many times over the years, we were always welcomed by Ray and Lorna, as were all of our children who visited. We had some really great times together doing the town or just sitting around. I remember Bob and Ray sitting together reliving their shared past and laughing about their adventures and misadventures together. I am thankful that I had the opportunity to relive some of that by listening to their stories. I love them both and I will really miss...

Please accept our sincere condolences on your loss.
Les and Peggy Oxborrow

When my oldest son Bobby and I arrived in Las Vegas on a cross-county adventure moving my brother David's furniture from San Fran to NYC, Uncle Ray couldn't believe the size of the truck, the trailer and the attached Volvo we were dragging across the plains and right into his driveway. Boy did he laugh. And then, always the gracious host, he drove us all around town (including two train hobby shops of course and the Hoover Dam). He took us out to breakfast, lunch and dinner. When we tried...