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Home Town Saint Louis, Missouri
Last Address O'Fallon, Missouri Buried at Bellerive Heritage Gardens, Creve Coeur, Missouri.
Date of Passing Feb 27, 2008
Wall/Plot Coordinates Unknown
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Husband of Joyce Meyer (nee Middleton); father of Alyce (Jay) Traxel and Raye Jean Dawson; grandfather of Timothy Turner, Tara Turner, Lauren Dawson and Leslie Waters; great-grandfather of Gabriel, Loralei and Jackson Turner; brother of Warren J. (Mary Ellen) Meyer.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Edmund F. and Ella Meyer, infant brother, infant sister, and his first wife, Margie Meyer.
Ray was a buyer with McDonnell Douglas. He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. He was a Captain in the Air Force, and a pilot who flew a B-17 Bomber with the 8th Air Force, 493rd Bomb Group. He was a member and Past Master of Bridgeton Masonic Lodge #80.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Rhineland Campaign (1944-45)/Operation Market Garden
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September / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944
Description "35,000 troops, 11,377 dead, wounded or missing, 6,450 captured. Objective was to secure series of bridges over main rivers of German occupied Netherlands. Strategic purpose was to allow allied crossing of the Rhine River. The last natural barrier
