Fay Robison Ray

Fay (Robison) Ray was born on August 13, 1920 in Fillmore, Millard County, Utah, the youngest of eleven children born to Charles Franklin Robison and Emma Rose (Seguine) Robison.  In her early years she lived on a farm, in the Flowell area of the County, until the death of her Father in 1929.  With his passing they moved into a small home in Fillmore, where Fay attended school and church and helped her older siblings care for her arthritically wheel chair bound Mother from age nine to seventeen.

She met her prospective husband, Emerson Ray, at a Church Dance in Fillmore, shortly after her seventeenth birthday.  Six years her senior, on being discharged from the U.S. Army he had returned to Fillmore, where he had attended High School for a few years.   They struck up a conversation and it was love at first sight.  With her Mom's permission to get a marriage license they were married 10 days later on September 28, 1937.  After a short while farming and raising chickens they moved to California where he obtained a job pouring concrete to build Parker Dam.  She lived in a trailer house on the banks of the Colorado River during the Dam work then they moved to Tecopa, California where he worked in the Noonday Mine, and they lived in a small rental home at China Ranch near opal mines.  They moved often where jobs availed themselves in the years following the depression.  The work involved various mining and prospecting ventures in the desert areas; welding on ships in Long Beach during WWII, more mining and prospecting ventures, later working in sheet metal and welding shops while their children went to Junior and High Schools.

During the years from July, 1938 to November, 1944 they had five children including a son born in Fillmore, Utah, a son born in Pasadena, California , a daughter born in Long Beach, California  and a twin son and daughter born in Fillmore Utah where the twin son did not survive the birthing process. Their last daughter was born in 1955 in Glendale, California.

Fay cared for her Children and Husband through many difficult circumstances and many moves, while providing a loving, nurturing home for family and many friends.  Their last home was in Dunmovin, California where Emerson was felled by a stroke in 1994 and was bedridden until he passed on December 1, 1997.  She cared for him until the end after 60 years of eventful married life.  She is the last of her 11 siblings to pass.  She died on December 8, 2017 after 97 years and 4 months. She was preceded in death by her Son Loren Ray (1944), her Husband Emerson Ray (1997), and her son Robert Ray (2016).

She was adored by her family and leaves behind her son Monte E. Ray, Her Daughter Sharron R. (Ray) Domingo, Her Daughter J. Lorene (Ray) Caffee, and her daughter F. Marne (Ray) DeBow.  She also leaves behind 12 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren and 8 great-great grandchildren.  In her last years she received excellent care at Ridgecrest - Bella Sera Nursing Home.

Funeral Services: 10A.M., Sat., Dec. 16, 2017 at Crossroads Church, 235 N. China Lake Blvd., Ridgecrest, CA 93555.   Interment: 2PM Sat., Dec. 16, 2017 at Mt. Whitney-Lone Pine Cemetery, Lone Pine, CA