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THE PASSING OF RAY DANKENBRING
Jun. 1, 2022
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports:
Dankenbring, Raymond "Ray" Clyde, 98, peacefully passed the sunny morning of May 17, 2022 at Meramec Bluffs, Ballwin, MO.
Ray was born February 5, 1924, during a snowstorm in Sweet Springs, Missouri. When Ray was 9, the A.F. Dankenbring family (Maurice, Leonard, James (Bud), Ray, Margaret) moved to a farm near Waterloo, Iowa. "I was the only student in the eighth grade" Ray mentioned of his one-room schoolhouse there.
After working the family farm with his father and mother, Arthur and Wilhelmina Dankenbring, through WWII, Ray entered Iowa State College and Farmhouse Fraternity, where he graduated with a degree in agricultural journalism in 1950. Ray married Lois Ann Meyer (1922-2019) on August 27, 1949.
Hoard's Dairyman magazine, Fort Atkinson, WI, soon hired Ray for their editorial staff. In 1951, Ray became associate editor at Farm Journal Magazine in Philadelphia, PA, where sons Jim (James) and Tom (Thomas) were born. In 1961, the family moved to Kirkwood, MO, when Ray became editor of Checkerboard Magazine, and in Public Relations for the Ralston Purina Company until 1984.
Ray then enjoyed the writing of several books ("non-fiction of course") and other journalistic endeavors. Vegetable gardening and his "Ripple Rock" acreage near Potosi, MO kept Ray connected to "The Land" these years.
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