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Obituary- Bixby, Ray

Ray Joseph Bixby
Services will be at 10 a.m.
Wednesday at Davidson Funeral
Home for Ray Joseph Bixby, 64,
Route 6, Topeka. He died late Saturday, Sept. 15, at a local hospital.
Mr. Bixby was a construction foreman at Topeka State Hospital 20
years and later farmed before he retired.
He was born Oct. 27, 1919, at To¬peka, the son of Charles and Hattie Denton Bixby. He lived in the Rossville and Silver Lake communities all his life.
He served with the Army during World War II, first with the 101st Airborne Division and later under
Gen. George Patton in the Third Ar¬my.
Mr. Bixby attended Lakeside
Southern Baptist Church at Silver Lake.
He was married to Maxine Faye
Reamer July 16, 1950, at Topeka.
She survives.
Other survivors include a son,
Raymond E. Bixby, Route 6, Topeka; a daughter, Mrs. Charlene M. Hen¬derson, WaKeeney; a stepson, Mark Lee Reamer, Route 6, Topeka; three brothers, Don Bixby, Rossville, Rob¬ert Bixby, Silver Lake and Vernon Bixby, Gravois Mills, Mo.; five sisters, Mrs. Rose Jones and Mrs. Edna Mae Taylor, both of Silver Lake, Mrs. Virginia O’Donnell, Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Mabel Patton, 928 N. Michigan, and Grace Bixby, 403 Hancock; and four grandchildren.
Burial will be in Prairie Home Cemetery. Mr. Bixby will lie in state after 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home where relatives and friends will meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Memorial contributions may be made to Lakeside Southern Baptist Church, Silver Lake, 66539.