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[SixPac]

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Ray, so sorry to hear this this morning. You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers.

Charlie and Margaret

[wcoates]

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Prayers to Ray and his family. T-Birders are the best and from the many posts it is obvious she was loved and respected by many!.

[RustyFrye]

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Thoughts and prayers are with you, Ray.

[FUN X 3]

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This is horrible news, we're saddened to hear this. Ray, we pray that God would bring you peace and comfort during this difficult time for you and your family. Phil & Judy

[MikeB]

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Although I don't post here very much anymore Susan and I want to add our condolences to Ray and his daughters Lindsay and Laura. We have become very good friends with Debbie and Ray and were devastated when we received notification from Ray that Debbie died on March 30, 2016 at 12:30 pm. Ray said arrangements hadn't been made at that time.
We last saw Ray and Debbie on Sunday, January 24th at the Country Mansion in Dwight Illinois when we had brunch together. On February 27th Ray called to say her doctors had taken her off all medication and was putting her in Hospice.
I loved my 2002 Torch Red Thunderbird and Susan and I have many happy memories of trips taken in it and all the fun we had at TBN events. For us, however, the best part of owning Illini Bird was the friends we met over the years and Ray and Debbie Reed became among our best friends and are heartbroken to know that Debbie has passed away.

[MikeB]

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A few more pics:

[Birdlover]

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Never met Ray and Debbie but nonetheless, our sincerest condolences to you and your family in this time of sorrow.

[MikeB]

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This is the last time we saw Ray and Debbie at the Country Mansion in
Dwight Illinois on Sunday, January 24, 2016. We ate brunch and had a good time.

[2K2BIRD]

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. For us, however, the best part of owning Illini Bird was the friends we met over the years ....

This says it all and is the real reason owning our retrobird and being part of TBN has been so important to us for the last 14 years.

For those that haven't been around that long, in 2006 we had an event in Oklahoma called Heartland Thunder. At that event we raised $30,000 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research. Debbie had recently been diagnosed and we had other TBN members that had been touched by the disease, either directly or through family and friends. Her and the others situations were the reason we chose SGK for our charity fund raiser.

[DaiUyTed]

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Prayers here as well.

[Tweetie]

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Having a Thunderbird and belonging to TBN, gives us all a huge family we can lien on in a time of loss or sorrow. My prayers reach out to your and yours.

[jim heath]

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So sad to hear this news, I first met Ray in 04 when I purchased his Tonneau covers. Since then I have had the privilege to be in the company of Debbie and Ray only three times. She was a wonderful lady and and will always be remembered as kind and friendly. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your daughters, God bless you my friend.

[JohnKo]

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Ray, Sorry to hear about your wife, Debbie. My thoughts and prayers go out to you. I know what you must be going thru as my wife passed Oct 6, 2016, so I am still in the grieving process. Our 34th anniversary was yesterday.

[Ray]

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Thank you one and all for the kind words. Debbie was in my life for 50 years and we would have celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary this July. She was a wonderful, loving, courageous, beautiful person and I miss her terribly. I'm so lucky to have had her in my life. Here's a link to the obituary:

http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local...f925dc432.html

Thanks again to my TBN family.

[JohnKo]

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Ray, I have gone thru the same emotions you might experience. I am no profession at this, but if you ever need someone to talk with PM me. I know one thing that my family and friends have helped me get to where I am today. AND keeping busy has got me thru many days.