San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - Wednesday, April 27, 2011
January 23, 1930 to April 19, 2011
Prominent Self-Service Gaso-line /Dry Cleaning Entrepreneur
A Celebration of Life is planned for Friday, May 6, at Southwestern Yacht Club, 2707 Qualtrough Street, San Diego 92106 at 11:00 a.m. (Point Loma area off Rosecrans). A reception will follow and an open invitation for anyone to speak at Ray's Celebration of Life will be welcomed. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to Ray's Charity of Choice: "The Salvation Army",Donation Processing Center, P.O. Box 503580, San Diego, CA 92150-3580. Ray always believed in helping to feed and care for the growing number of hungry and homeless people in San Diego County. Please include his name with your donation. Ray died from three emergency surgeries within the past month and complications from Pneumonia and heart failure. Ray was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Raymond Grove Senior and Berenice Bezoier Grove, and moved to Southern California at an early age. He attended USC and was accepted into the SAE Fraternity before entering the NAVCAD Program in 1950. Having finished the NAVCAD Program, Ray went on to Advanced Aviation Training at NAS Pensacola, Florida. Completing this he was assigned to various Naval Carriers based in Norfolk, Virginia. After his five years of Active Naval Service, he returned back to the LA area, before relocating to San Diego and completed 10 years of Naval Reserve duty. Mr. Sol Price, Founder of the Fed Mart Corporation of San Diego, hired Ray in the Administration and Human Resource Departments before advancing him to several Store Manager locations. Ray later took on a new career as Sales Manager for Hercules Oil Company in San Diego. From August 1968 through March 1971, a trio of San Diego area entrepreneurs, Ray Purdy, Jerry W. Burriss and Jack Berry, all experienced in the gasoline business, built a chain of nine self-service gasoline stations and a drive-thru dry-cleaning store on the same lot. Pioneering their idea throughout San Diego County and becoming the FIRST self-service retail stations. They put together a smooth-working profitable operation out of what might seem to be an unlikely combination. The company, Speed-Way Cleaners and The Pit Stop, a self-service, remote controlled computerized gasoline station, advertised, "Gassing up and dropping off cleaning are two social pains. Now take care of gas and cleaning once a week. Save time and money-With discounted prices." Experts insisted they would be sorry. But Purdy, Burriss and Berry, equal partners laughed all the way to the bank. Ray and Marlene Purdy were active members of Southwestern Yacht Club for many years and enjoyed many Sailboats throughout their 38 years of marriage. Ray was active in the single handed races, and together they sailed the California Coast, Channel Islands, Baja Mexico into the Sea of Cortez as well as Mainland Mexico as far as Acapulco. Music, Travel and Gourmet Cooking were highlights of Ray's Life. Together, Ray and Marlene formed a Gourmet Cooking Club, called "The Ancient Gourmetters." They traveled to many parts of the World, and can say not too many people in life have the opportunity of doing a "Gorilla Trek in Rwanda" Life doesn't get any better than this .... AND while on a Society Expedition Adventure Cruise in the South Pacific, the "World Discoverer Ship" struck an uncharted reef near Guadalcanal Island, and the double hull ship immediately took on water. A radio signal distress may-day call was made and they were evacuated by lifeboats to shore, where they were picked up on a remote Island by an inter Island Ferry Boat and taken to Honiara Hotel, in the Solomon Islands. Then two days of homeward flights to Brisbane, Sydney, Los Angeles and San Diego. Ray is survived by his wife Marlene, sons Robert and Mark Purdy, daughter Michelle Purdy Salvio, along with husband Dean Salvio and grandsons Austen Purdy and DiIlan Salvio.
Information courtesy of Find a Grave contributor Jerry Huffman
January 23, 1930 to April 19, 2011
Prominent Self-Service Gaso-line /Dry Cleaning Entrepreneur
A Celebration of Life is planned for Friday, May 6, at Southwestern Yacht Club, 2707 Qualtrough Street, San Diego 92106 at 11:00 a.m. (Point Loma area off Rosecrans). A reception will follow and an open invitation for anyone to speak at Ray's Celebration of Life will be welcomed. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to Ray's Charity of Choice: "The Salvation Army",Donation Processing Center, P.O. Box 503580, San Diego, CA 92150-3580. Ray always believed in helping to feed and care for the growing number of hungry and homeless people in San Diego County. Please include his name with your donation. Ray died from three emergency surgeries within the past month and complications from Pneumonia and heart failure. Ray was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Raymond Grove Senior and Berenice Bezoier Grove, and moved to Southern California at an early age. He attended USC and was accepted into the SAE Fraternity before entering the NAVCAD Program in 1950. Having finished the NAVCAD Program, Ray went on to Advanced Aviation Training at NAS Pensacola, Florida. Completing this he was assigned to various Naval Carriers based in Norfolk, Virginia. After his five years of Active Naval Service, he returned back to the LA area, before relocating to San Diego and completed 10 years of Naval Reserve duty. Mr. Sol Price, Founder of the Fed Mart Corporation of San Diego, hired Ray in the Administration and Human Resource Departments before advancing him to several Store Manager locations. Ray later took on a new career as Sales Manager for Hercules Oil Company in San Diego. From August 1968 through March 1971, a trio of San Diego area entrepreneurs, Ray Purdy, Jerry W. Burriss and Jack Berry, all experienced in the gasoline business, built a chain of nine self-service gasoline stations and a drive-thru dry-cleaning store on the same lot. Pioneering their idea throughout San Diego County and becoming the FIRST self-service retail stations. They put together a smooth-working profitable operation out of what might seem to be an unlikely combination. The company, Speed-Way Cleaners and The Pit Stop, a self-service, remote controlled computerized gasoline station, advertised, "Gassing up and dropping off cleaning are two social pains. Now take care of gas and cleaning once a week. Save time and money-With discounted prices." Experts insisted they would be sorry. But Purdy, Burriss and Berry, equal partners laughed all the way to the bank. Ray and Marlene Purdy were active members of Southwestern Yacht Club for many years and enjoyed many Sailboats throughout their 38 years of marriage. Ray was active in the single handed races, and together they sailed the California Coast, Channel Islands, Baja Mexico into the Sea of Cortez as well as Mainland Mexico as far as Acapulco. Music, Travel and Gourmet Cooking were highlights of Ray's Life. Together, Ray and Marlene formed a Gourmet Cooking Club, called "The Ancient Gourmetters." They traveled to many parts of the World, and can say not too many people in life have the opportunity of doing a "Gorilla Trek in Rwanda" Life doesn't get any better than this .... AND while on a Society Expedition Adventure Cruise in the South Pacific, the "World Discoverer Ship" struck an uncharted reef near Guadalcanal Island, and the double hull ship immediately took on water. A radio signal distress may-day call was made and they were evacuated by lifeboats to shore, where they were picked up on a remote Island by an inter Island Ferry Boat and taken to Honiara Hotel, in the Solomon Islands. Then two days of homeward flights to Brisbane, Sydney, Los Angeles and San Diego. Ray is survived by his wife Marlene, sons Robert and Mark Purdy, daughter Michelle Purdy Salvio, along with husband Dean Salvio and grandsons Austen Purdy and DiIlan Salvio.
Information courtesy of Find a Grave contributor Jerry Huffman
San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - Wednesday, April 27, 2011
January 23, 1930 to April 19, 2011
Prominent Self-Service Gaso-line /Dry Cleaning Entrepreneur
A Celebration of Life is planned for Friday, May 6, at Southwestern Yacht Club, 2707 Qualtrough Street, San Diego 92106 at 11:00 a.m. (Point Loma area off Rosecrans). A reception will follow and an open invitation for anyone to speak at Ray's Celebration of Life will be welcomed. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to Ray's Charity of Choice: "The Salvation Army",Donation Processing Center, P.O. Box 503580, San Diego, CA 92150-3580. Ray always believed in helping to feed and care for the growing number of hungry and homeless people in San Diego County. Please include his name with your donation. Ray died from three emergency surgeries within the past month and complications from Pneumonia and heart failure. Ray was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Raymond Grove Senior and Berenice Bezoier Grove, and moved to Southern California at an early age. He attended USC and was accepted into the SAE Fraternity before entering the NAVCAD Program in 1950. Having finished the NAVCAD Program, Ray went on to Advanced Aviation Training at NAS Pensacola, Florida. Completing this he was assigned to various Naval Carriers based in Norfolk, Virginia. After his five years of Active Naval Service, he returned back to the LA area, before relocating to San Diego and completed 10 years of Naval Reserve duty. Mr. Sol Price, Founder of the Fed Mart Corporation of San Diego, hired Ray in the Administration and Human Resource Departments before advancing him to several Store Manager locations. Ray later took on a new career as Sales Manager for Hercules Oil Company in San Diego. From August 1968 through March 1971, a trio of San Diego area entrepreneurs, Ray Purdy, Jerry W. Burriss and Jack Berry, all experienced in the gasoline business, built a chain of nine self-service gasoline stations and a drive-thru dry-cleaning store on the same lot. Pioneering their idea throughout San Diego County and becoming the FIRST self-service retail stations. They put together a smooth-working profitable operation out of what might seem to be an unlikely combination. The company, Speed-Way Cleaners and The Pit Stop, a self-service, remote controlled computerized gasoline station, advertised, "Gassing up and dropping off cleaning are two social pains. Now take care of gas and cleaning once a week. Save time and money-With discounted prices." Experts insisted they would be sorry. But Purdy, Burriss and Berry, equal partners laughed all the way to the bank. Ray and Marlene Purdy were active members of Southwestern Yacht Club for many years and enjoyed many Sailboats throughout their 38 years of marriage. Ray was active in the single handed races, and together they sailed the California Coast, Channel Islands, Baja Mexico into the Sea of Cortez as well as Mainland Mexico as far as Acapulco. Music, Travel and Gourmet Cooking were highlights of Ray's Life. Together, Ray and Marlene formed a Gourmet Cooking Club, called "The Ancient Gourmetters." They traveled to many parts of the World, and can say not too many people in life have the opportunity of doing a "Gorilla Trek in Rwanda" Life doesn't get any better than this .... AND while on a Society Expedition Adventure Cruise in the South Pacific, the "World Discoverer Ship" struck an uncharted reef near Guadalcanal Island, and the double hull ship immediately took on water. A radio signal distress may-day call was made and they were evacuated by lifeboats to shore, where they were picked up on a remote Island by an inter Island Ferry Boat and taken to Honiara Hotel, in the Solomon Islands. Then two days of homeward flights to Brisbane, Sydney, Los Angeles and San Diego. Ray is survived by his wife Marlene, sons Robert and Mark Purdy, daughter Michelle Purdy Salvio, along with husband Dean Salvio and grandsons Austen Purdy and DiIlan Salvio.
Information courtesy of Find a Grave contributor Jerry Huffman
January 23, 1930 to April 19, 2011
Prominent Self-Service Gaso-line /Dry Cleaning Entrepreneur
A Celebration of Life is planned for Friday, May 6, at Southwestern Yacht Club, 2707 Qualtrough Street, San Diego 92106 at 11:00 a.m. (Point Loma area off Rosecrans). A reception will follow and an open invitation for anyone to speak at Ray's Celebration of Life will be welcomed. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to Ray's Charity of Choice: "The Salvation Army",Donation Processing Center, P.O. Box 503580, San Diego, CA 92150-3580. Ray always believed in helping to feed and care for the growing number of hungry and homeless people in San Diego County. Please include his name with your donation. Ray died from three emergency surgeries within the past month and complications from Pneumonia and heart failure. Ray was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Raymond Grove Senior and Berenice Bezoier Grove, and moved to Southern California at an early age. He attended USC and was accepted into the SAE Fraternity before entering the NAVCAD Program in 1950. Having finished the NAVCAD Program, Ray went on to Advanced Aviation Training at NAS Pensacola, Florida. Completing this he was assigned to various Naval Carriers based in Norfolk, Virginia. After his five years of Active Naval Service, he returned back to the LA area, before relocating to San Diego and completed 10 years of Naval Reserve duty. Mr. Sol Price, Founder of the Fed Mart Corporation of San Diego, hired Ray in the Administration and Human Resource Departments before advancing him to several Store Manager locations. Ray later took on a new career as Sales Manager for Hercules Oil Company in San Diego. From August 1968 through March 1971, a trio of San Diego area entrepreneurs, Ray Purdy, Jerry W. Burriss and Jack Berry, all experienced in the gasoline business, built a chain of nine self-service gasoline stations and a drive-thru dry-cleaning store on the same lot. Pioneering their idea throughout San Diego County and becoming the FIRST self-service retail stations. They put together a smooth-working profitable operation out of what might seem to be an unlikely combination. The company, Speed-Way Cleaners and The Pit Stop, a self-service, remote controlled computerized gasoline station, advertised, "Gassing up and dropping off cleaning are two social pains. Now take care of gas and cleaning once a week. Save time and money-With discounted prices." Experts insisted they would be sorry. But Purdy, Burriss and Berry, equal partners laughed all the way to the bank. Ray and Marlene Purdy were active members of Southwestern Yacht Club for many years and enjoyed many Sailboats throughout their 38 years of marriage. Ray was active in the single handed races, and together they sailed the California Coast, Channel Islands, Baja Mexico into the Sea of Cortez as well as Mainland Mexico as far as Acapulco. Music, Travel and Gourmet Cooking were highlights of Ray's Life. Together, Ray and Marlene formed a Gourmet Cooking Club, called "The Ancient Gourmetters." They traveled to many parts of the World, and can say not too many people in life have the opportunity of doing a "Gorilla Trek in Rwanda" Life doesn't get any better than this .... AND while on a Society Expedition Adventure Cruise in the South Pacific, the "World Discoverer Ship" struck an uncharted reef near Guadalcanal Island, and the double hull ship immediately took on water. A radio signal distress may-day call was made and they were evacuated by lifeboats to shore, where they were picked up on a remote Island by an inter Island Ferry Boat and taken to Honiara Hotel, in the Solomon Islands. Then two days of homeward flights to Brisbane, Sydney, Los Angeles and San Diego. Ray is survived by his wife Marlene, sons Robert and Mark Purdy, daughter Michelle Purdy Salvio, along with husband Dean Salvio and grandsons Austen Purdy and DiIlan Salvio.
Information courtesy of Find a Grave contributor Jerry Huffman
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