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Born April 18, 1935, at Longmont, Boulder County, Colorado.
Married September 2, 1956, at Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado.
Ray graduated from the University of Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical
Engineering, and was employed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and a corporate
successor in New Jersey for most of his career. He was one of the pioneers of
sending digital data over telephone lines, worked in Ballistic Missile Defense,
and spent many years developing computer software for use in telephone company
operations.
Ray was the author or co-author of ten technical papers and talks. He was also
a contributor to the reference book “Engineering and Operations in the Bell
System.”
Ray published two books, one recording his own family history (Bowyer-Skavdahl
Genealogy), and the other recording his wife’s family history (Clarke-Hansford
Genealogy). He is also a web site developer, developing personally or jointly
with others four different web sites, including this one.
Ray and Margie moved from New Jersey to Big Canoe, Georgia, in 1995.
He is a member of the Big Canoe Chapel and Friendship Force of Big Canoe/North
Georgia, and chairman of the board of Friends of the Pickens County Library.
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