Submitted by: Dan Rich

Evelyn L. Ray

Sept. 3, 1917 - Jan. 8, 1999

South Bend Tribune 1/11/1999

NEW CARLISLE - Evelyn L. Ray, 81, of Miller's Merry Manor in New Carlisle, Ind., formerly of County Line Road, New Carlisle, died at 10:10 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 8, in the nursing home. Mrs. Ray was employed for nine years with the New Prairie United School Corporation up until 1982. She was a supervisor in the cafeteria at New Prairie High School. She was born on Sept. 3, 1917, to Charles and Eliza (McNeal) Wheatbrook in Rolling Prairie, Ind., and was a lifelong area resident. Mrs. Ray was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Eliza Wheatbrook; a grandson, Karl Wickizer, who died in 1993; two sisters, Ruth Geiyer and Lottie Dunham; and by a brother, Randall Wheatbrook.

On June 18, 1935, as Evelyn L. Wheatbrook, she married Carl Robert Ray in New Carlisle. He survives. She is also survived by two daughters, Nancy Wickizer of New Carlisle and Janice (Arnold) MacDonald of McAllister, Okla.; four grandchildren, Linda (Edson) Cates, Lea Anne (Christopher) Neiman, John (Christine) Clark and Scott MacDonald; seven great-grandchildren; two sisters, Gladys Fack of Austin, Texas, and Mildred Costello of LaPorte, Ind.; and by a brother, Charles (Dorothy) Wheatbrook of Rolling Prairie, Ind. She was a member of the New Carlisle Community Church, was a fifty-year charter member of the New Carlisle Extension Club, and was active with the New Carlisle Fire Department Auxiliary.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. (E.S.T.) on Tuesday, Jan. 12, in the New Carlisle Community Church, with Rev. Michael Donahue officiating. Interment will follow in New Carlisle Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. (E.S.T.) today in the Kaniewski Funeral Home, 201 S. Filbert Street, New Carlisle, and from one hour prior to funeral services at the New Carlisle Community Church on Tuesday. Memorial contributions may be made to the New Carlisle Community Church, P.O. Box 155, New Carlisle, IN 46552.