Billy Ray volunteered with and served on several social service agencies and community service organizations in Medina County, Ohio, after retiring from the General Motors plant in Parma, Ohio, in the early 1990s.This list of organizations includes:
- Medina County Family First Council;
- Medina Noon Kiwanis Club;
- Wayne/Medina Community Action Board;
- Salvation Army Board;
- Ohio State University Extension Advisory Committee;
- Second Baptist Church, Medina;
- Fellowship Baptist Church, Medina;
- and First Baptist Church, Wadsworth.
Billy, pictured here receiving an award from the Medina Noon Kiwanis Club, was recognized many times for his community service. He was well-known throughout the Medina area for his good-deed doing, yet shied away from the spotlight.
Billy posed for the photo on the left for a United Way campaign.Read the Aug. 2, 2010, edition of the Medina County Gazette for "The Dash Between" June 26, 1927, when the longtime Medina, Ohio, resident was born Billy Wray in College Grove, Tenn., and June 26, 2010, when he died at Southwest General Medical Center in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, on his 83rd birthday.
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