Longtime ‘Terrace _ resident
Raymond Richard MeBryan

passed away at Mills Memorial

Hospital Aug, 7.
Ray was born on Dec, 2, 1923.
in the little town of Chase, B.C.,

the son of Raymond McBryan Sr. . :

and Elvina (Herrmann).
Ray’s grandfather
friend, George Chase, had come.
from Ireland at a very young age
in the early 1800s.
Grandfather McBryan.

him. :

Both young Irishmen then
married native women from that
area.

McBryan and his wife raised a
large family of 13 children.

Both are now buried in the
Shushwap cemetery.

Ray’s grandmother was a Very

well-liked woman ‘because she -

loved and helpéd everyone.

Her home was used as a
maternity ward and she appar-
ently helped deliver many babies
there.

The native people liked her go .

much they named her their prin- -

cess,

At her graveside is a beautiful
headstone,

Ray’s parents. first had twin
girls born in Turtle Valley in
1920, But one of the twins died at
birth, leaving sister Margaret as
Ray’s big sisler.

Ray was bom in Chase and
went to school there before going
on to Kamloops for some further
schooling, :

He first worked with his father,
. logging. He then left the Shush-
wap area and went to ‘Vancouver,
where he worked in the
shipyards,

Ray then served in the Cana-

dian army in the Second World ©

War.
He was overseas for four years,
serving one of them among the

occupation forces in post-war

Germany.

After being discharged, he

returned to Vancouver, where ‘he

lived for several years.

Ray came to Terrace in. April,

1951. ©
He travelled in a 1929 Chev

one-ton truck.

Front Gor
home on. Greig Ave. where be
lived until his death this month.
In 1971 Ray -martied his wife
Betty Haudenschild; daughter of
. Sam Hauclenschild, and’ San

and his

had’ .
settled in the Shushwap area and.
George Chase settled in the town —
of Chase — which is named after

Page B8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 25, 1993

Friends toast

“Here ’n.
There”’
by Yvonne Moen

BETTY AND RAY McSryan were married in 1971. Ray, who

died Aug. 7. Ray was bom in Chase, B.C. and served four years
in the Canadian ermy during the Second World War.

daughter of Sam Sr. Haudens-
child, a Dutch Valley pioneer of
the early 1900s.

Ray worked as a sawyer in vari-
ous mills over the years.

He also. worked for
Laundry and Time Cleaners.

Ray had also worked at
Skeenaview Hospital for about
three and a half years as a | janitor
until it closed,

Ray and his son Danny owned
Lakeside Logging. They worked
together until Ray had a stroke
and retired.

Al’s

But Ray never really retired 7

from life.
“He kept working in his shop,

: _ Making metal. and srooden, Jawn
: In£953ho~boligiit Spropetty?: =

enthnee

would always have meals on the
go when his wife Betty got home.

He often liked to have a family
‘gathering and make Chinese’
food.

Ray was always a smiling,
happy-go-lucky man and was
known for his jokes. He always

‘had one handy. .

Ray was known and loved by
many. ’

He is greally missed by his wife
Betty, his two sons Dan and Tim,
daughters Sharon Foulston, Lynn

Schmidt; son Leslie Negraiff, two
- brothers-in-law Robert ‘Haudens-

child and Don Haudenschild, and

_sistey-inlaw Dorothy Weiss.

Seryice for family: and friends
was held on Wednesday, Aug. 11,
at1-pm. by the Royal Canadian,
Legion. It was catered. by the

‘Legion’s Ladies Auxilliary.

‘Cremation ;.took.. place. at. the

~ Terrace cemetery. .
fils eed“ bullr”his""~ Ray “also loved to: ‘cook == hon Fhe cutogy~was-Tead~bywlong
" time friend, O.A. Kaulbeck.

‘Sérvice. by Rev. -. Lance
Stephens. Family members and
some friends later gathered at the

J Skeena Hotel k to toast RAY.

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