Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Monday, July 25, 1966

Ray Traxler, Press employee, dies Sunday

Funeral services for Ray Stephen Traxler, 51, of 601 Creole Lane, district circulation manager for the Lake Charles American Press, will be in the Hammer Funeral Home Chapel at a time to be announced.

Burial will be in the Ritchie Cemetery in Moss Bluff.

Mr. Traxler died of a heart attack at 1 a.m. Sunday in Rogers Memorial Hospital in Rogers, Ark. He was in Arkansas on a vacation trip.

He had been district circulation manager since to came to the American Press in Oct. 2, 1955.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Melba Traxler; one son, Jerry Traxler of Lake Charles; one daughter, Mrs. Linda Bruce of Grand Fork, N.D.; his mother, Mrs. Lottie Traxler of Lake Charles; one sister, Mrs. Lether Clegg of Moss Bluff, and four grandchildren.