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Ray Edwin Bradshaw

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Ray Edwin Bradshaw

Birth
Lindale, Smith County, Texas, USA
Death
31 May 2007 (aged 82)
Tyler, Smith County, Texas, USA
Burial
Tyler, Smith County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 32.322017, Longitude: -95.297926
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Memorial services for Ray E. "Ray B" Bradshaw, 82, Tyler, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at First Christian Church with the Rev. Brett Winters officiating.

Private burial will be held at Rose Hill Cemetery under direction of Lloyd James Funeral Home, Tyler.

Mr. Bradshaw died May 31, 2007.

He was born Aug. 31, 1924, in Lindale to J.B. and Clemmie Bradshaw. He was a 1942 graduate of Lindale High School and served in the Navy Sea Bees in construction battalion serving in Guadalcanal, Palmyra, Honolulu and Guam, where he laid out airstrips. Following his discharge, he did mapping and drafting for Humble Oil and Atlantic. He was a Master Mason, a 32nd-degree Scottish Rite Mason, York Rite Knight and a Shriner.

He was a certified Petroleum Landman and past director and vice president of East Texas Association of Petroleum Landmen. He served as director and vice president of Tyler Petroleum Club and was director of Guadalcanal Veteran's Group.

He was preceded in death by brother, Hurley Bradshaw.

Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Edith Crawley Bradshaw; daughters, Lana Parks, Dallas, Pam Sartain and Jan Copas, both of Tyler, and Holly East, Decatur; brothers, Bill Bradshaw, Lawton, Okla., and Gene Bradshaw, Mineola; 12 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be grandsons, Kirk Baird, Eric Parks, Kevin Herren, Dusty Herren, and nephews, Billy Manning, Ray Manning and Rick Sallis.

Visitation will be 5-6:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of East Texas, 4111 University Blvd., Tyler, 75701 or First Christian Church, 4202 S. Broadway Ave., Tyler, 75701.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 6/2/2007.
Memorial services for Ray E. "Ray B" Bradshaw, 82, Tyler, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at First Christian Church with the Rev. Brett Winters officiating.

Private burial will be held at Rose Hill Cemetery under direction of Lloyd James Funeral Home, Tyler.

Mr. Bradshaw died May 31, 2007.

He was born Aug. 31, 1924, in Lindale to J.B. and Clemmie Bradshaw. He was a 1942 graduate of Lindale High School and served in the Navy Sea Bees in construction battalion serving in Guadalcanal, Palmyra, Honolulu and Guam, where he laid out airstrips. Following his discharge, he did mapping and drafting for Humble Oil and Atlantic. He was a Master Mason, a 32nd-degree Scottish Rite Mason, York Rite Knight and a Shriner.

He was a certified Petroleum Landman and past director and vice president of East Texas Association of Petroleum Landmen. He served as director and vice president of Tyler Petroleum Club and was director of Guadalcanal Veteran's Group.

He was preceded in death by brother, Hurley Bradshaw.

Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Edith Crawley Bradshaw; daughters, Lana Parks, Dallas, Pam Sartain and Jan Copas, both of Tyler, and Holly East, Decatur; brothers, Bill Bradshaw, Lawton, Okla., and Gene Bradshaw, Mineola; 12 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be grandsons, Kirk Baird, Eric Parks, Kevin Herren, Dusty Herren, and nephews, Billy Manning, Ray Manning and Rick Sallis.

Visitation will be 5-6:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of East Texas, 4111 University Blvd., Tyler, 75701 or First Christian Church, 4202 S. Broadway Ave., Tyler, 75701.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 6/2/2007.


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