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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.