Ray Dunlap 1888-1944

DUNLAP, PHILLIPS, KEITH, GILLESPIE, MCGUIRE

Posted By: Kathy Kurth Holtry
Date: 1/17/2010 at 10:05:13

Paper and Date not given--From the files of Dr. Brett I Dunlap
Long Illness Ends in Death
Funeral services for Ray Dunlap of North Manchester were held in the Community church Sunday afternoon, in charge of the Rev. Robert James Watson. Burial was made in Oakland cemetery. Mr. Dunlap's death occurred Wednesday, Nov. 22 1944 after a long illness.
Raymond Harrison, son of Thomas Bruce and Ermina Phillips Dunlap, was born Nov. 12, 1888, in Hazel Green township, Delaware county, Iowa. He received his education in the township grade school and graduated from the Hopkinton high school. Later he attended Lenox college there and the School of Engineering at Los Angeles, Calif. For the past 30 years he had operated his farms at Masonville and North Manchester.
On Sept. 22, 1915, he was married to Georgia Keith, and two sons were born Capt. Howard Dunlap, of the U.S.M.C., now in the Pacific Theater, and George Dunlap, navy R.O.T.C., of Boulder, Colo.
Ray, as he was known to everyone, was an honest, friendly, hard working, loyal American citizen. A rugged individualist, he stood for what was sincere and noble in life and squarely met its vicissitudes. He was proud of the part his sons could take in freeing the world of oppression.
In his early life he was a regular attendant at the Sunday school and church services of the Golden Prairie, and this religious training had a deep and lasting effect on his whole outlook on life. His faith and prayers carried him through the dark valley of the shadow until his "long night of fever and unrest broke in the morn of eternity."
He loved the great outdoors, the season's changes, the color and beauty of it all. His one great regret was that he could never again see the grass grow green nor roam through his beloved fields.
Members of his family preceding him in death are his parents, his brothers, Robert and Elzie; his sisters, Elizabeth and Vivian. Those left to mourn his passing are his devoted and beloved wife, Georgia; his sisters, Mrs. Myra Gillespie and Mrs. Jessie McGuire; and his brother, Herman Dunlap, who at present is in the Aleutian islands in government war work.
"Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me, and may there be no moaning at the bar when I put out to sea."