Obit of Ray, Mazie [Boone] (r000) - Caddo County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandi Carter 3 Apr 2004 Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/caddo/caddo.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== The Chickasha Express-Star 14 March 2004 MAZIE BOONE RAY On September 11, 1911, Mazie Boone Ray was born on their ranch that was 13 miles northwest of Higgins, Texas. She was a birthright Quaker. She died March 11, 2004, in her apartment at Sterling House. She was taken to Smith Funeral Home in Anadarko, OK. Services will be at the Nazarene Church in Anadarko on Sunday, March 14, 2004, at 2:00 p.m. Mazie was saved at a Methodist Revival at the age of seven and at the age of nine she joined the Church of the Nazarene with her parents in Higgins, Texas, where they were charter members. Mazie attended her first grade school at Prairie View in Texas with her brother Claude. They rode horse-back or drove a buggy to school. She went to High School at Higgins, Texas, where she graduated May 1929. She then went her first two years to Bethany Peniel College at Bethany, Oklahoma. Later she went to Northwest College at Alva, Oklahoma. After teaching in a grade school three years, she taught third and fourth grade at Lipscomb, Texas, two years. Mazie then went to Central State College at Edmond, Oklahoma, where she received her A. B. Degree in May 1938. After graduating, she taught the third grade in Chickasha, OK, at the Southwest School for five years. She resigned and taught her last thirty- seven years in Anadarko, OK. On November 4, 1959, she and J. W. Ray of Grandfield, OK, were married at Wichita Falls, Texas. They made their home in Anadarko, OK. J. W. worked at Fort Sill, OK, for the Civil Service for many years. He had to retire because of heart trouble. July 29, 1994, he died. She was preceded in death by her parents, Reverend Ray and Anna Boone, two brothers, Murry and Claude, and a sister, Leora Fern. She is survived by a sister, Lorene Hess, of Chickasha, nephews Jerry and Tom Hess, both of Chickasha, and niece, Mrs. Mary Ratliff, of Chickasha. She is survived by other nieces, nephews, two cousins, and a host of friends. The family would like to thank the ladies of Sterling House and Heartland Hospice for all the special and loving care given to Mazie. Instead of flowers, please give to the Nazarene Church or Heartland Hospice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/caddo/caddo.html