Kay, Raymond Vernon   	

Services for Raymond Vernon Kay, 80, of Longview, will be 10:30 a.m. 
Saturday, October 14, 2006, at the Provencal First Baptist Church in 
Provencal, Louisiana, with the Rev. Kevin Taylor officiating. Burial 
will follow in Memory Lawn Cemetery in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Mr. 
Kay passed away Tuesday, October 10, 2006, at a local medical center. 
Mr. Kay was born January 24, 1926, in Provencal, Louisiana, to Pinkney 
Grant and Lottie Levice Cobb Kay. He attended Provencal First Baptist 
Church in Provencal, Louisiana, and Alpine Church Of Christ in Longview. 
He graduated from Northwestern State College and LeTourneau Technical 
Institute. He served in Europe during World War II and in the 557th 
Paratroopers Airborne Division in the Korean Conflict, attaining the 
rank of sergeant. He worked as a sales and service manager for Marathon 
LeTourneau and lived in Longview for more than 45 years. He was a member 
of the Pine Tree Masonic Lodge. Preceding Mr. Kay in death was his wife, 
Erma Blanche Ferguson Kay in August of 1995; siblings, Rufus Kay, Exie 
Welch, Minnie Hanley, Sophronia Caldwell, Lettie Honeycutt-Gandy, Johnny 
Ivy Kay, Hattie Rhodes, and Lillie Winstead. Left to cherish his memory 
are his son and daughter-in-law, Kenneth Raymond and Dolly Kay of 
Longview; daughters and sons-in-law, Margot Kay of Palm Desert, California, 
Karla Sue Kay and Frank Richard Rowland of Austin, and Lisalee Kay and 
Brad Sobey of Gilmer; grandchildren, Miles Justin Rowland and Joshua 
Martin Rowland of Austin, Kortnee Taylor Kay and Rebecca Ryan of Longview, 
Jessica Lee Sobey and Ford "Bradford" Raymond Sobey of Gilmer; sisters, 
Letha Lee Schlaff of Somers, Connecticut, Odeal Pharris of Shreveport, 
Louisiana, and Beatrice Dixon of Natchitoches, Louisiana; brother, James 
Kay of Provencal, Louisiana; and numerous nieces and nephews. Memorial 
contributions may be made to Longview Regional Medical Center Employee 
Benevolence Fund. An online registry may be signed at www.news-journal.com, 
by clicking on the obituaries link.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 10/14/2006.