In Memory of Ray Marmon

(from the Garnett paper fall 1969)

Raymond Marmon, Jr., 22-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Marmon, was killed in a one-car accident early today (Thursday). The accident occurred about 5 miles northeast of Garnett on US 169. Marmon was headed north and apparently missed a curve. The car went off on the right side of the road and flipped over several times after hitting a county road abutment.
Highway Patrolman Jerry Wohler said that the accident occurred some time after midnight but was not discovered until about 7 a.m. by Gene Miller of Greeley. Marmon was apparently returning to Paola, where he was a first year teacher at Paola High School. The car, a 1969 Corvette, was completely demolished.
Marmon graduated from Ottawa University in the spring of this year and had attended the University on a track scholarship. A 1965 graduate of Garnett High School, Marmon was active in all sports and served as president of his senior class and was named Homecoming King his senior year.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by a brother, Randy, of the home, and numerous aunts and uncles.

RayM Ray and Randy The photo on the right is Ray and his brother, Randy, in the mid-1950's. The photo at the left is Ray in kindergarten. That is when I first met him and I have one specific memory of him that year. I don't know how many of you recall the stick horses Mrs. Thomas had us make but I remember them very well. The day we finished them Ray and I and a couple of other kids decided to play 'cowboys and Indians'. Since we didn't have toy guns available we just pointed at each other and said "bang". I suspect that Mrs. Thomas had previously told us not to do that but that day we forgot (or maybe we didn't care). Anyway we got caught and received quite a lecture from her. And we learned a valuable lesson that day - next time play behind the school out of her sight ;-)

If Ray had lived we would have become cousins in 1990 when my step-father adopted me. His mother, Fern, was a sister to Carl's mother, Ellis.