ROYCE LEE BRAY

CLASS OF 1948 

August 7, 1930 - September 17, 2004

Royce L. Bray, 74, Osawatomie, died Friday, Sept. 17, 2004, at Life Care Center in Osawatomie.

He was born Aug. 7, 1930, in Kansas City, Mo., and was the only child of Strother Roy and Maude Augusta Atkinson Bray. He graduated from Osawatomie High School with the Class of 1948. He then went to the University of Kansas, where he graduated in 1954 with a degree in engineering physics.

He served his country with the U.S. Air Force from 1954 to 1956.

Mr. Bray worked for Convair for 37 years. He worked in general dynamics as a control and systems engineer. His job took him from Fort Worth, Texas, to San Diego, Calif., in February 1960 and then to Florida in the spring of 1966. He worked at Cape Canaveral in Florida and lived on Merritt Island. He retired in 1994 and returned to Osawatomie.

He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Osawatomie.

His father died in 1993, and his mother died in 1996.

Graveside services will be at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 14 at the Osawatomie Cemetery under the direction of Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home.

Return to 1940-1949 List