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- Obituary - Bellefontaine Examiner
RAY P. STAYER , 72, 5756 Devonshire Boulevard, Miami, Florida, formerly of Bellefontaine died Tuesday at 10:15pm in the hospital where he was admitted last Saturday. Death followed several years of ill health. Mr. Sowers was born in West Libe rty, October 30, 1898, a son of John and Laura (Sowers) Strayer, and was an employee of the former New York Central Railroad for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Strayer left Bellefontaine in 1962 to make their home in Florida.
Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10am at the St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Miami, followed by the cremation, the ashes to be interred in St. Thomas Columbarium Church Gardens.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to Mrs. Ray P. Strayer or Miss Agnes Armitage at the Strayer address in Miami, to be added to the building fund for a retirement home for the parishioners of the Episcopalian church.
Birth recorded in Logan County, Ohio, Vol. 3, 1893-1908, Page152.
1900 Census, Ohio, Vol. 92, E.D. 114, Sheet 3, Line 28, Liberty twsp., Logan County, has Percy living with parents, age 1.
1920 Census, Ohio, Vol. 123, E.D. 191, Sheet 11, Line 75, 220 Oak Land Square, Bellefontaine, Logan County, has Ray living with parents, age 21.
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