(Odie Mae Williams was born August 12, 1896, the tombstone date of 1895 is incorrect.Odie Mae Williams and Jesse Felix Ray were married in August 18, 1912 in Callahan County, Texas. Odie Mae Williams Ray died June 13, 1954.The information and obituary were contributed by Bobbie Louise Stone Ray, wife of Johnny E. Ray.)

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Mrs. Jess F. Ray Dies At Houston, Rites At Criswell

Mrs. Jess F. Ray, age 57, died in a Houston hospital early Sunday, following two weeks treatment due to illness. She had been in Houston about a month from her McClanahan home where the family had resided and engaged in farming for the past eight years.

She was born near Waco, August 12, 1896.

Funeral services were held at the Criswell Church at 4 p.m. Monday with burial in the cemetery there. Adams Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

She is survived by her husband at McClanahan. Six sons, Johnny E. Ray, Mart; Lester H. Ray and Glenn Ray, Houston; W. L. Ray, Marlin; Murray Ray, McClanahan, and Kenneth Ray, in the U. S. Army in Pennsylvania. Five daughters, Mrs. W. N. Stone, McClanahan; Mrs. O. R. Morgan, Houston; Mrs. John W. Barosky, in Pennsylvania; Mrs. R. J. Alcott, in Mississippi, and Mrs. W. S. Patterson, Waco. Two sisters, Mrs. Bell Garland, in Oklahoma, and Mrs. Willie Herring, Roanoke. Also 21 grandchildren.