Louis Amy Glasgow Ray (1872-1922)

RAY, GLASGOW, DUNAHOO, DOGGETT, HALL, MOORE

Posted By: Gail and Dennis Bell
Date: 6/18/2005 at 19:39:50

THE MAXWELL TRIBUNE, Maxwell, Iowa, Thursday, March 2, 1922, page 1. "MRS. J. A. RAY - Lois Amy Glasgow was born in Nevada, Iowa, February 29, 1872, and passed from this life at her home in Maxwell, Iowa, February 25, 1922, aged fifty years. In early childhood she removed with her parents to Iowa Center, where she spent her young womanhood and where, on January 7, 1890, she was united in marriage to J. A. Ray and resided on the farm near Iowa Center until February 26, 1917, when they moved from the farm to Maxwell, where the have since resided. To this union one daughter, Eva, was born, and she is left to mourn the loss of mother, together with her father and Mrs. Ray's mother, Mrs. C. A. Glasgow; five brothers, Nathaniel, of San Bernardino, Calif.; William, of Cambridge, Iowa; Louis, Robert and ___ of Maxwell, and Mark, of Colo, Iowa, and five sisters: Mary E. Dunahoo, Leva Doggett, True Dunahoo, Bertha Hall and Hannah Moore, all of Maxwell, Iowa. Mrs. Ray united with the Evangelical church at Iowa Center in her girlhood and throughout the years that followed she remained an earnest Christian, one who while under a physical handicap for more than twenty years, enjoyed when she was able the work of the kingdom in the Sunday school and church. When they came to Maxwell she united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and when her health permitted she was constant in her attendance at the services there. On Thursday night before her death, when it was expected at any moment, she told her brother that she would like to have her pastor with her for Christian consolation, and when called by her brother it was her pastor's great pleasure to receive from her assurance of her steadfast faith in her Christ, and expression of her readiness to meet her Lord in that upper and better kingdom. She is not dead, for death is separation from God. Our sister but sleeps, for to one who has supreme faith in his maker "There is no death; what seem so is tradition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian whose portal we call death." Funeral services were held from the Methodist church, Monday afternoon, conducted by the pastor, Rev. R. C. Russell. The music was conducted by the full choir of the church. Interment was made in the Iowa Center cemetery."