Ray Shetron

1918 - 2006  (88 years)

• Name	Ray Shetron
  Born	30 May 1918	Solomon, Dickinson County, Kansas
  Gender	Male
  Died	16 Oct 2006	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Buried	Hoyt Cemetery, Hoyt, Jackson County, Kansas
  Person ID	I6219	Rossville
  Last Modified	26 Dec 2019

  
  

  Father	Geraldus Shetron
  Mother	Tillie Dobson Shetron
  Family ID	F7343	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Yvonne I Young Shetron,   b. 17 Feb 1924, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri ,   d. 21 Jun 2011, Holton, Jackson County, Kansas  (Age 87 years)
  Married	14 Apr 1945	Atchison, Atchison County, Kansas
  Children	1. Alberta Yvonne Shetron Broaddus Hughes,   d. 1986   2. Gerald Ray Shetron   3. John Jay Shetron
  Last Modified	2 May 2018 10:01:31
  Family ID	F7342	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 30 May 1918 - Solomon, Dickinson County, Kansas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  Obituary- Shetron, Ray Ray Shetron Ray Shetron, 88, Hoyt, died Monday, October 16, 2006 at the Midland Hospice House in Topeka. He was born May 30, 1918 at Solomon, the son of Geraldus and Tillie Dobson Shetron. He graduated from Solomon High School in 1936. Ray worked at Boeing Aircraft in Wichita before entering the U.S. Army Air Corps. He served as a control tower operator during World War II in Saipan and Japan. After being discharged from the army, Ray worked for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Topeka for twenty-two years. He was also a farmer and a stockman. He was a member of the Hoyt United Methodist Church and an honorary member of United Steel Workers Local NO. 307f. Ray married Yvonne I. Young April 14, 1945 at Atchison. She survives of the home. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Alberta Yvonne Broaddus Hughes, who died in 1986, one sister, Ozetta Viola, and one brother, Elmer Shetron. Other survivors include two sons, Gerald Ray Shetron, Dodge City and John Jay Shetron and wife, M.J. of Florida; a son-in-law, Steve Hughes and family, Victorville, California; three grandchildren, Jason Broaddus and wife Nicole, Melissa Shetron and Jennifer Shetron Hopkins and husband Sean; two great grandchildren; two nieces, Ilene Favand and Lois Jean Cheney; and three nephews, Ralph Viola, Vernon Viola, Jr. and Bobbie Viola. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Thursday at the Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Hoyt. Burial will follow in the Hoyt Cemetery. Ray will lie in state until service time at the funeral home where family and friends will meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Memorial are suggested to Midland Hospice or Hoyt United Methodist Church and may be sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 280, 66440. On-line condolences may be made at chapeloaksfuneralhome.com.