Raymond Ray McBride

Celebration of the life Raymond Ray McBride Sr. 72 years old of Lake Village, Arkansas will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday Sept. 7, 2016 at Bayou Mason Baptist Church in Lake Village, Arkansas. He went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Friday Sept. 2, 2016 at Chicot Memorial Hospital in Lake Village, Arkansas. Burial will be in Lake Village City Cemetery. Ray was born October 18, 1943 in Lake Village, Arkansas to Claude and Ruth McBride. He was the president of McBride Investments Inc., a self employed engineer and CEO of Sun-Ray Testing Inc. He was a member of Bayou Mason Baptist Church where he served as a deacon. Ray loved the Lord and he was a Gideon. Ray was preceded in death by his parents, Claude and Ruth McBride; the mother of his children, Susan L. McBride; his son, Wayne McBride; five brothers, Clyde McBride, Tommy McBride, Armond "Mac" McBride, Claude McBride and William "Billy" McBride who was the first pastor of Bayou Mason Baptist Church. Ray is survived by his wife of 20 years, Susan Rae McBride of Lake Village, Ark.; his son and daughter-in-law, Raymond McBride Jr. and Paula of Hensley, Ark.; his daughter, Kimberly Lynn McBride Tuttle of Houston, Texas, his sisters-in-law, June McBride of Riverside, Calif. and Janet McBride Ingram of Rockwall, Texas; 11 grandchildren, Nicole Lemaster, Amanda Morris, Heather Hernandez, Kirsten Graybill, Raymond Ray McBride III, Dillon McBride, Alec McBride, Tristan McBride, Ethan McBride, Austin McBride & Madison McBride, several great-grandchildren; a host of nieces and nephews; and a host of other family members Rev. Tom Stringfellow, Rev. Gary Naron and Rev. Michael Ivey will officiate the services.