The funeral service for Raymond William Cambron, 92, of Wakita, will be at 2:00 P.M. Monday, March 9, 2009, at Wakita Methodist Church, with Rev. Kyle Anderson officiating.   Burial will be in Wakita Cemetery, with arrangements are by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.

     He was born to Francis Xavier and Allie Lee (Spratt) Cambron on October 26, 1916 in Wakita, and died Wednesday, March 4, 2009, in Wakita.

     Raymond grew up in the Wakita area and graduated from Gore High School.  He and his Dad showed Guernsey cattle, and they had the top Guernsey herd in Oklahoma.  On August 24, 1941, he married Edna Mae Ricker in Wakita.  Raymond then served in the U.S. Air Corps.  He was a custom cutter for twenty years, drove a semi cross-country, farmed, ran a dairy, and built stock trailers.  He flew his own airplane and was a member of Flying Farmers.  Raymond was a member of Wakita Methodist Church.

       He is survived by one son Ronald Cambron and wife Mary of Enid; one daughter Paula Maye Cambron-Leedy of Mesa, AZ; eight grandchildren; fourteen great-grandchildren; and one sister Lucile Ransom of Rosehill, KS.

     He was preceded in death by his wife Maye, brother Charles, and two sisters, Marie and Allie.

     Memorials may be made through the funeral home to O.M.R.F. – Heart Division.