C. Raymond Haggard |
| Posted 2009-07-18 by Sharla |
| The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ April 20, 2005, Page B8 Raymond was born in Bandana, Ky. on Oct. 12, 1908. He passed away on March 31, 2005 in Colorado Springs, Colo. His parents, Ruby Dick (Hendricks) and Cling Reynolds Haggard, were tobacco farm sharecroppers during Raymond's younger life. Raymond had two sisters and two brothers, one brother dying in infancy. While in Kentucky, he met and later married Willie Lee Hendricks on March 22, 1930 They later moved to Jackson, Mich. where Raymond began working as a machinist at the Kelsey-Hayes Company making automotive parts. They had one child, Cecil Ray, born in 1931. Raymond retired from Kelsey-Hayes in the late 1960s. In the early 1970s, due to Willie Lee's health, doctors in Michigan advised Raymond to move to Arizona. It was there they both began attending Calvary Baptist Church, where they were baptized and became members. After Willie's death, Raymond married Opal Nadine (Oliver) in May of 1989. Opal died Jan. 16, 1990. Raymond was preceded in death by his parents, his son Cecil and daughter-in-law Charlene, all of his siblings and both wives. He is survived by his grandchildren, Colby of Tucson, Ariz., Lorna Boynton (James) of Pelkie, Mich., and Colleen Hix (John) of Houghton, Mich.; great-grandchildren Cynthia, Melissa and Clinton Haggard, Robert and James Boynton, and Ruth and Rae Hix; as well as nieces and many friends. Raymond will be remembered by all who knew and loved him as a gentle, gracious and Godly man with a ready smile and a good sense of humor. A memorial service honoring Raymond will be held at 11 a.m., May 2 at the Calvary Baptist Church in Wickenburg. Burial will be in Wickenburg. See Also: Find A Grave |
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