Michael Wynne Ray II

Published 12:05 am Saturday, December 10, 2011

Nov. 20, 1964 – Dec. 8, 2011

CHURCH HILL — Services for Michael Wynne Ray II, 47, of Church Hill, who died Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, at Natchez Regional Medical Center, will be at 11 a.m. today at Church Hill United Methodist Church with the Rev. Reed McCaleb officiating. Mike had battled melanoma for two years.

Burial will follow at Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until service time today at the church.

Mike was born Nov. 20, 1964, in Greenville, the son of Michael Wynne Ray Sr. and Eleanor Claudean Saxon Ray.

He was a graduate of Cleveland High School and Delta State University. He married Delia Guedon in 1990, they have three children.

He worked as an insurance adjuster with Farm Bureau Insurance for 17 years and was an agent with the company until his death. He served as the chairman of the Church Council for Church Hill United Methodist Church. Mike also served as president of the Adams County Christian School Board. He was an avid hunter, fisherman and joke teller. He loved spending time with his family and he was a great dad, husband, brother and son. He was a great man who touched many.

Mike was preceded in death by his grandparents, Melvin and Maybell Ray and James and Claudean Saxon.

Survivors include his wife, Dee Ray; two sons, Michael Ray III and Will Ray; one daughter, Maggie Ray, all of Natchez; parents, Michael and Jimmie Ray; one sister, Michelle Cummins and husband, Al, all of Merigold; mother-in-law and father-in-law, Arch and Mary Ed Guedon of Church Hill; one brother-in-law, Noble Guedon and wife, Fayla, of Natchez; one sister-in-law, Wanda Bounds and husband, Matt, of Brandon; six nieces, Alyssa, Anna Grace and Ashlyn Cummins, Caroline Guedon, Katelynn and Marley Bounds; and one nephew, Grayson Guedon.

Pallbearers will be Al Cummins, Matt Bounds, Noble Guedon, Moose Tolbert, Jack Lebrano, Mack Taylor, Scot Nixon and Michael Ray III.

Memorials may be made to Adams County Christian School.

Online condolences may be sent to www.lairdfh.com.