RAY DUMEY

OAK RIDGE, Mo. -- Ray A. Dumey, 72, passed away Sunday, June 18, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

Friends may call Wednesday, June 21, between 4 and 8 p.m. at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.

Funeral service will be Thursday, June 22, at 11 a.m. at the funeral home. Interment will be in Goshen Cemetery near Oak Ridge. The Rev. Jon Sedgwick will officiate.

Mr. Dumey was born June 21, 1927, in Chaffee, son of the late Leon H. and Alvina Baudendistel. On May 7, 1949, in St. Louis, he married Gloria Evans. She survives.

Other survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, David A. and Deborah Dumey of Ellisville; a daughter, Jana K. Dumey of St. Charles; a brother, Leon J. "Bud" Dumey of Cape Girardeau; three sisters, Lee Anna "Sis" Chambers of Chaffee, Martha J. Castleman and LaVern "Cotton" Leible of Florissant; five grandchildren, Kara Dumey of Venice, Calif., Bryan M., Leah R., Erica C., and Hannah E. Dumey, all of Ellisville.

Mr. Dumey served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1945. From 1947 through 1970 he worked for an independent St. Louis meat packing company, held under Swift and Co. For 11 of the 23 years he was employed by Swift, he also worked for Stevison Ham Co. In 1972 he began working for Procter and Gamble, retiring in 1994.

Mr. Dumey formerly served as a cub master in North St. Louis County. He was a 26-year member of First Baptist Church of Oak Ridge.

Expressions of Sympathy may take the form of contributions to First Baptist Church of Oak Ridge, the American Heart Association, or the American Cancer Society.