Mary Myers Ray
worked briefly at the
Labor Department.
(Family Photo)
Mary Myers Ray, 88, a native Washingtonian and a 1936 graduate of McKinley Technical High School, died Feb. 4
at Inova Loudoun Hospital. She had congestive heart failure.
Mrs. Ray, a McLean resident, briefly did administrative work at the Labor Department and Works Progress
Administration before becoming a homemaker.
Her husband, Elmer Carroll Ray, whom she married in 1941, died in 1989. A daughter, Peggie Russell, died in
1998.
Survivors include three children, William C. Ray of Leesburg, Margie Ray McDevitt of Wayne, Pa., and Pattie Ray
Snider of Potomac Falls, Va.; a sister, Betty Clem of Front Royal; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
2006