Obit of Ramsey, Raymond H - Texas County, Oklahoma

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Raymond H. Ramsey

HOOKER - Raymond H. Ramsey, 80, died Friday, May 23, 1997.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Gospel of Grace Church with the 
Rev. Gary Wiens officiating. Burial will be at Hooker Cemetery. 
Arrangements are by Roberts Brothers Funeral Home.

Mr. Ramsey was born in Hutchinson, Kan. In 1919, his family bought farm 
land in the Hooker area, where he lived, farmed, ranched and raised his 
family. He attended elementary school at Buffalo School and graduated from 
Hooker High School with the class of 1936.

He married Ninetta Kennedy in 1940 at Hooker. She died in 1994.

They farmed together and in 1954, he worked part time for Natural Gas 
Company. In 1956, he began working full time for 20 years. He drove a 
school bus for Hooker Schools for five years. He retired from farming 
after the fall harvest of 1996.

He earned his electrical certificate and wired many houses in the area as 
well as the educational building at the Gospel of Grace Church.

He was a member and trustee of the Gospel of Grace Church. He was a 
longtime member of Texas County Mineral Owners Board, a member of Guymon 
TV Translator Board since its inception, and the Hooker Senior Citizens.

Survivors include a son, Harlan Ramsey of Hooker; three daughters, Ladene 
Beer of Guymon, Ilene Hammack of Pagosa Springs, Colo., and Joan Palmgren 
of Satanta, Kan.; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to Hooker Cemetery Fund or the Gospel of 
Grace Music Department, care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 745, Hooker, 
Okla. 73945.

Amarillo Globe News 25 May 1997
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