Alva Review-Courier -

Ray Dean Linder was born in Waynoka, Oklahoma, January 30, 1935, and passed away peacefully at Beadles Nursing Home in Alva, Oklahoma, on July 15, 2021, surrounded by family. Celebration of life services will be 1:30 p.m. Monday, July 19, 2021, at Alva First Christian Church. A private interment will be under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva.

He graduated from Waynoka High School in 1953 as class valedictorian and lettered all three years in baseball, basketball and football. At Southwestern State College, now SWOSU in Weatherford, Oklahoma, he was a four-year letterman in baseba...