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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., July 15, 1943, page 1

JOHN RAY VICTIM OF HEART ATTACK; SERVICES JULY 14

John M Ray, 75, passed away at his home in Spring Creek Saturday, July 10, following an illness of one week. A series of heart attacks were said to have been the cause of his death. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. from the Phillips Funeral Home with Raymond I. Gibbs, officiating.
Mr. Ray was born in Nebraska and came to Klickitat county when a young man, settling in the Chamberlin Flat district. He and his family later moved to Pleasant Valley where they lived until September 1929, when they moved to Spring Creek.
He is survived by his wife, Molly Jane; one daughter, Mrs. Albert Stevens, of Vancouver and one son Pvt. Roy Ray, of Santa Ana, Calif. Pvt. Ray arrived in Goldendale Friday and was at the bedside of his father when he passed away
Interment was in the Spring Creek cemetery. An obituary will be published next week.

The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., July 22, 1943, page 2

JOHN MARSHALL RAY

John Marshall Ray was born in Nebraska on October 16, 1867, and died at his home on Spring Creek on July 10, 1943.
He was one of five children, one half-brother of whom survives him. He went to Kansas as a young man where he was married in June, 1889, to Flora Mesenger. No children were born to this union. Flora passed away about four years later.
After working in the silver mines in Idaho for a few months he came to Klickitat county in 1908, where he was united in marriage to Mollie Jane Horn on December 2, 1908. To this union one daughter and son were born.
He was baptized in the Church of Christ in 1908.
He leaves his wife, Mollie, of Goldendale; his daughter, Leona Stevens, of Vancouver; his son, Roy, of the United States Army Air Corp; his half-brother, L.J. McCusky, of Clifton, Colorado; his nieces and nephews, and a great many friends.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon, July 14, at 2:00 p.m. from the Phillips Funeral Home, with Raymond I. Gibbs, of the local Church of Christ, officiating. Interment was in the Spring Creek cemetery.