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Service Thursday for Retired Pastor Dean T. Dray
MERCER ISLAND, WA (October 10, 2001) - A memorial service will be held Thursday, October 11, for retired Covenant pastor Dean T. Dray who died of complications from a heart problem at Covenant Shores health center. He was 87.
The service will be held at 3 p.m. at Covenant Shores. Pastor Marlowe Shoop at Covenant Shores will officiate. For more information on the service or directions, call Mo Canny at Covenant Shores, 206-268-3012, or email her at MECanny@covenantretirement.org.
Dray was born May 13, 1914, in Kalama, Washington. As a young adult, he worked for two airplane companies and fulfilled a childhood dream of operating an electric streetcar for the Seattle Municipal Street Railroad. He wrote in his memoirs that he didn't become a born-again
Christian until 1945. Though he said he came to faith late, he made up for lost time. He took four years of bible courses at a local bible college and received his B.A. in Bible at Seattle Pacific University. He and his wife, Marie, had a daughter, Martha, seven years later.
While serving as a bus driver for the Seattle Transit System, Dray served a nine-year ministry at Martha Lake Community Covenant Church in Washington (1954-63). He also completed his undergraduate education at Seattle Pacific University, graduating in 1959. Dray served at Hillman
Covenant for two years, then was senior pastor at the Monroe Covenant Church from 1966-68 before serving at Hillman Covenant from 1968-77. He remained a bus driver until 1973. In 1974, he became an ordained Covenant minister.
In the 1980s, he served as a pastor at Alaska Covenant churches in Fairbanks, Golovin and Nome. He also worked as interim manager at KICY radio in Nome and served as pastor of the Golovin Covenant Church in an interim role. He married Mildred Dean in 1982 after meeting the teacher
in Fairbanks. Later in his ministry career, Dray served as a chaplain, joining the Covenant Chaplains Association and the College of Chaplains. He and Mildred lived in Surprise, Arizona, where Dray was chaplain at Sunridge Retirement Center. They had lived at Mt. Miguel Covenant
Village in Spring Valley, California, before transferring to Covenant Shores.
Dray is survived by his wife, Mildred; daughter, Martha
Newton; and stepchildren Blaine Stribling, William Stribling, Tom
Stribling and Mary Jo Love.
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