3/23/2016 Memories of Rayby Laura Derby, Friend and Neighbor
We knew that Ray was a programmer and a very successful one, but my memories are of other things, although our kids had endless happy hours playing wumpus on Ray's computer. A lot of my memories involve family gatherings. We used to get together every Christmas day, and Ray would produce an amazing meal. Roast beef, or Roast goose, with all the trimmings. We ate beyond repletion and enjoyed every bit. We’d have dinner parties together and play various word games that Ray started us on. We used to compete to see who could come up with the best Tom Swifty. We played another game using clues to come up with something starting with “para” such as "two medical people” would be Paradox. I remember too that Ray could circle breathe which enabled him to do what I think was Tibetan chants without having to stop for a breath. Ray also had a vegetable garden behind their house and i remember sharing in their first (maybe only) ears of corn. We went camping together and Ray brought his sourdough starter to make us all pancakes. Quite yummy sitting outside in Crawford Notch state park. It's so hard to summarize a person and a number of years of friendship, but basically Ray was a quiet man with an enormous range of interests and a really great dry sense of humor. He will be missed. Comments are closed.
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