FRED MERTON RAY

Dr. Fred M. Ray, Former Maladian, Dies At Pocatello

Dr. Fred Merton Ray, 77, prominent Pocatello physician, died in Bannock Memorial Hospital shortly before midnight Friday [May 29, 1959]. He had suffered a stroke at his Kane Building office earlier that day.

Services were held Tuesday at Pocatello and burial was in the Malad Cemetery.

He first came here in 1909 from Leadore where he had practiced medicine, then left to study diseases of women and of the eye, ear, nose and throat in Vienna, Austria.

After his return to this country, the doctor practiced in a clinic in Portland, Ore., for a few years before moving back to Pocatello in 1933.

Born Feb. 11, 1882, in Bedford, Ind., he was one of 12 children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Ray. He attended schools in Indiana and in 1904 joined his brother, Dr. D. C. Ray, now of Pocatello, in Malad.

He taught school in Malad for a year, then attended Northwestern Medical College, Chicago. After his graduation from Northwestern, he opened his practice in Leadore.

During World War I Dr. Ray served as a captain in the Medical Corps.

Active in Masonic organizations, he was a thirty-third degree Mason, the highest honor bestowed on a member, past master of Keystone Lodge No. 81 and a member of the Pocatello Scottish Rite Bodies.

Other affiliations included American Legion Post No. 4, the Rotary club and county, state and national American Medical Association groups. He was a member of the First Congregational Church.

Survivors include his wife, Rachel Jones Ray; one son, Dr. Ralph M. Ray, Portland; one daughter, Mrs. Stanley Madden, San Francisco; six grandchildren and two brothers, Dr. D. C. Ray, Pocatello, and Dr. Charles N. Ray, Salt Lake City.

Those from Malad attending the funeral at Pocatello were Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Tapper, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Griff Davis Jr., Mrs. Eli B. Jones, Mrs. Thomas F. Thomas, Mrs. Ralph Tovey[sic], and daughter, Joan, Mrs. Bert Eliason, Roy Daniels, Dan Daniels, Russ Daniels, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh W. Jones and Margaret, Mr. and Mrs. James Vaughan, and T. D. Jones.