Jim, Thank you for letting everyone know. It is hard to process the information. Friends on the landracing forums are celebrating Ray: http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,13673.0.html Ray set me up as admin on this list (elky). Jim let me know if there is anything I can do. Chris On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:45 PM, JAMES HALLADAY <auh2ofan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Friends: > It is with great sorrow that I report Ray Buck passed away Thursday. > Feb 27, a little after noon PST. > > A dear mutual friend in Everett, WA, Dr Freud, called around 9:30 PM. > > Ray had visited Death Valley about a month back; on the return trip from > Pomona. > > He contracted a virus known as "D V Fever". > > Some facts about the disease: > > > https://www.google.com/search?q=death+valley+fever&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb > > It developed into > pneumonia, and his poor old heart just got overloaded and failed. > > More later as I learn more. > > Regards, > Jim >