Clara Belle Ray

Clara Belle Tester Ray BIRTH 3 Dec 1926 Blowing Rock, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA DEATH 24 Apr 2013 (aged 86) Boone, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA BURIAL Mountlawn Memorial Park and Gardens Boone, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA MEMORIAL ID 109669330 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 2 FLOWERS 0 Daughter of Clyde Carlton TESTER and Lula Mae MOORE Griffis. Married J. E. RAY.

Clara Belle Tester Ray, age 86, of Boone, died late Wednesday afternoon, April 24, 2013. She was born in Blowing Rock, on December 3, 1926.

She was a graduate of Blowing Rock High School, Class of 1944, and was retired from TRW/IRC, where she was a lab technician. She was a devoted leader of Girl Scout Troop 245.

She is survived by one daughter, Shirley Ray of Clyde, North Carolina; one sister, Anna Lea Helton and husband Lloyd of Lenoir; one brother, Glenn Tester and wife Emma of San Antonio, Texas, and one sister-in-law, Margaret Ray Folger of Lumberton, North Carolina. She is also survived by a number of nieces, nephews, and cousins.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, J.E. Ray, and one sister, Dare Newman.

Graveside services and burial were held at the Ray Family Cemetery in Boone, officiated by Reverend Burl Greer.

Family Members Parents Photo Clyde C. Tester 1907–1981

Photo Lula Mae Moore Griffis 1905–2002

Siblings Photo Anna Lea Moore Helton 1923–2015

Photo Dare Tester Newman 1928–2008

Photo Glenn Carlton Tester 1931–2015

Gravesite Details The oldest section of Mount Lawn was the original Ray - Hodges Cemetery per info from Aleta Stafford.

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