TIPTON, Iowa -- Ray Carol Unruh, 76, Tipton, died Saturday, March 27, 2004, at Mechanicsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Mechanicsville, after an extended illness.

Graveside services are at Tipton Masonic Cemetery, Tipton. The Rev. Ron Lashmit will officiate. His body has been cremated.

Memorial visitation is at the Fry Funeral Home, Tipton. Memorials may be made to the Ray Unruh Memorial Fund or Amenity Hospice, Cedar Rapids.

Mr. Unruh was born April 19, 1927, in Cedar County, the son of Louis and Bertha Hudson Unruh. He married Ruth Iola Dettman.

He was a cement truck driver, farmer and custodian at Tipton School.

He was a past member of Tipton Moose Lodge.

Survivors include five daughters, Brenda Vanscoy and husband, Pete, of Tipton, Glenda Pitlik of Mount Vernon, Linda Thumma and husband, Rick, of Tipton, Diane Duwa and husband, John, of West Branch and Kelly Unruh and husband, Pat, of Rochester; two sons, Craig Unruh and Scott Unruh and wife, Donna, all of Tipton; 13 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two brothers, Clair Unruh and Henry Unruh; and five sisters, Naomi Sell, Delores Truhlar, Lorraine Rudolff and Joyce Miller

He was preceded in death by his parents and a son, Dennis Unruh.