Gene Ray Pender, age 84, passed away March 16, 2017. A funeral will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at the Bellmead Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery. A visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, March 20th at the funeral home.

Ray was born April 5, 1932 in Wise County, Texas. He married Barbara Mateunas in 2010.

He is preceded in death by his parents and two daughters.

Ray is survived by his wife, Barbara; daughter, Belinda Neace; stepdaughters, Linda Long Blackshire, Barbara Gail DeVoll , Jimmie Ann Fleetwood and Donna Marie Scarborough; three sons; stepson, Robert James Howse; grandson, Clay Milsap and many other grandchildren and great grandchildren.

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