Tami Ray

Tami Ray, 55, passed away at Immanuel Lutheran Home on June 1, 2015,  surrounded by her loving family.

Tami, the youngest of three daughters, was born in Lincoln, Neb., on Sept. 28, 1959, to Carl and Jeanne Ray.

She spent her younger days growing up in Nebraska. As a teenager she moved with the family to Great Falls where she attended CMR High School. She then attended the University of Bozeman for two years.

Tami was an insurance salesperson in Fort Worth, Texas, where she met and married Greg Wilkerson. They moved to Hawaii, where Tami worked for Kona Coffee as a sales representative. Later she divorced and moved to Montana to be close to her family.

She was working for the Whitefish Pilot as an outside saleswoman when she had a tragic accident on Christmas Eve 2002. She has been in Immanuel Lutheran Home since 2003.

Tami is preceded in death by her parents, Carl and Jeanne Ray.

She is survived by her older sisters Carla Jeanne Ray, of Great Falls and her life partner Lee Withrow, and Cathy Lee Perry, of Kalispell and her husband Leonard Perry; numerous nieces and nephews, great nieces, great nephews, cousins and friends.

Tami’s ashes will be joined with her mother’s in Wolf Creek Canyon on a sunny day.