Deseret News 04 Sept 1996

Whittier, California resident Ray Walter Bishop, 69, died of heart failure on Thursday, August 15, 1996 at Beverly Community Hospital in Montebello, California. His wife and son were at his side.

Ray was born in Malad, Idaho on August 28, 1929. He was the youngest son of Roy J and Cora Gammel Manwaring Bishop. Married Margaret Keate, 1948. Later divorced. He married Patricia Jean Bruggeman LeMon on September1, 1968 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He was raised in Salt Lake City, graduated from East Hight School and attended University of Utah. He began working for Pan Am Airlines in San Francisco and spent his career with Barber-Colman in Los Angeles, California until his retirement in 1990.

Ray served in the Armed Forces as a cryptographer in Germany and the United States during World War II.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia and son, Anthony C. LeMon, Whittier, California. He is also survived by his sisters, Virginia Merman, Modesto, California; Carol Cantrell, El Paso, Texas; sisters-in-law, Kathrine Manwaring Peterson, Salt Lake City; Helen Manwaring, San Diego, California and Margaret Bruggeman, Salt Lake City; Brother-in-law Vernon Bruggeman and wife Marjorie, Salt Lake City and many cousins, nieces and nephews.

A memorial services was held in Whittier, California August 21, 1996 at the Hillside Chapel, Rose Hills Memorial Park. Interment will be in Salt Lake City Cemetery at a later date. Remembrances may be made in Ray’s memory to the charity of your choice.