Ray A. March OBITUARY

Ray A. March OBITUARY

Ray A. March, a 25-year resident of Cedarville, CA, died Thursday, November 13, following a lengthy illness.

Born in Port Angeles, WA, on August 18, 1934, Ray’s journalism career spanned seven decades, starting as a student reporting high school sports on the Monterey Peninsula.

March wrote for the Overseas Weekly Post WWII, and upon his return to the States, he wrote for the Salinas Californian and Monterey Herald. He was Editor- in-Chief of The Carmel Pine Cone newspaper in the late 1990s and, after moving to Modoc County in 2000, co-founded, edited, and wrote for the Modoc Independent News.

His articles and essays appeared in Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Herald Examiner and elsewhere.

Ray authored several books, including Alabama Bound: Forty-Five Years inside a Prison System, River in Ruin, The Story of the Carmel River, and Mass Murder in California’s Empty Quarter, A Tale of Tribal Treachery at the Cedarville Rancheria.

Ray is survived by his wife, Barbara, his daughters Melissa Bailey and Michelle Kirk, and his grandchildren Royce Kirk and Melanie Kirk.

The family has established a journalism scholarship in Ray’s name at his alma mater, Carmel High School.

To contribute and for more information, please email: Ray.a.marchscholarship@gmail.com