Findagrave - A graduate of Penn State University Ray Reichard took on much responsibility from an early age. His father John Reichard died when Ray was only 12 years old. He became a big help in assisting his widowed mother Emma in running and managing their large farm and properties. Ray would become a very astute business man as well as a farmer.
Ray and wife Ethel Volkman had just 2 children - son John who never married and daughter Ruth who had one son from her first marriage to Blaine Miller
Paper records has birth month as August.