OBITUARY: Willie Ray Price, 1 Feb 2003 - Coke County, TX Contributed by Mary Love Berryman 20 December 2002 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************************** All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** San Angelo Standard-Times - This Week's Obituaries - 02/02/03 to 02/08/03 WILLIE RAY PRICE Shaffer Funeral Home ROBERT LEE — Willie Ray Price, 82, died Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003, in a San Angelo nursing home. Service will be graveside at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, four miles North of Silver in McKenzieville Cemetery with J.C. Wallace officiating. Mr. Price was born Jan. 15, 1921, in Owen, Texas, to Morrison and Nellie Price. He married Daisy Bloodworth in Colorado City, Texas, Sept. 16, 1939. She preceded him death Aug. 23, 1990. He later married Dorothy Manship in San Angelo, Texas, on June 13, 1992. He was also preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Glen; two grandsons, John Walker Price and John Curtis McCurdy Jr.; and a brother-in-law, Charles Honea. He is survived by Dorothy; three sons, Ed and wife, Maureen, Gary and wife, Margaret and Jeffrey; two daughters, Jamie and husband, John McCurdy, and Cindy Price; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and three sisters, Louise Honea, Viola and husband, Truett Dennis, and Imogene and husband, Ray Youngblood. Willie ranched for several years on the Garner Ranch near Girvin, Texas. He was inducted into the United States Army on April 28, 1944, serving in World War II as a technical sergeant in the CBI-China, Burma, India Theater in Transportation Ordinance 3581st and 882nd. Upon his discharge on May 28, 1946, he began working in the oil fields around the Odessa area, where he was also an active 4-H leader for many years. Later Atlantic Richfield transferred him to Wyoming. He left the oil field business in 1970 and moved to Colorado where he raised hogs. He and Daisy moved to the Silver-Robert Lee area in 1981.