HAROLD RAYMOND

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HAROLD RAYMOND McGHEE (RAY) Peacefully on July 17, 2004, Ray passed away at the Portage District General Hospital. Ray was born near Teulon, MB on October 8, 1921. Ray served with the Canadian army in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany during the Second World War. After the war, he married June Eileen Jones on December 19, 1945. Except for his military service overseas, Ray spent most of his life in Winnipeg. He lived for many years on Berwyn Bay in Transcona. Ray spent the last year of his life happily living in Gladstone, MB, where he was fondly known as "grandpa" by the community. He was a member of Gladstone Legion No. 110 and the Gladstone Seniors Drop-In Centre. He was a regular attendee at the weekly fiddle concerts at Third Crossing Manor and loved going out for coffee or ice cream. He was predeceased by his wife Eileen; parents, Alfred and Jean Grierson; infant daughter June; brothers, George, Doug, Norman, and Don; sister Evelyn. He leaves to mourn, his daughters, Carol (Robert) Hunter and Diana McGhee; son Richard McGhee; grandchildren, Buster and Eileen Hunter and Graham and Leanne Grieves; sisters, Jean Linklater of Winnipeg, Eleanor Mawson of Kelowna, BC; brother Gordon McGhee of Bordenhaunts, England; as well as many nieces and nephews. Memorial service will be held on Friday, August 6 at 2:00 p.m. at the Gladstone United Church, Gladstone. Interment will take place on Saturday, August 7 at 11:00 a.m. at Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens, 4000 Portage Ave. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Mood Disorder Association of Manitoba, 4-1000 Notre Dame Ave., R3E 0N3. Arrangements entrusted to: CHAPEL LAWN FUNERAL HOME CREMATION AND RECEPTION CENTRE 885-9715 Family and friends are invited to sign the Book of Condolence at www.chapellawn.mb.ca

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Jul 20, 2004