Raymond L Urias

Raymond L. Urias, age 67, of Grants Pass, died Thursday, August 1, 2013 at Royale Gardens Health & Rehabilitation Center.

Family services will be held. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.

Raymond was born August 25, 1945 in Whittier, California to Raymond O. Urias & Anita M. Urias. For three years, he served in the United States Army beginning in 1963 as a helicopter mechanic and was stationed in Korea and Vietnam. In 1992 in California he married his wife, Nanci and they moved to Springfield, Oregon in 1992 and to Grants Pass in 2000. For 35 years he owned a custom machine shop which he moved from La Habra, California to Oregon.

Ray developed an early interest in hot rods and custom cars which continued through his life. In recent years he owned 2 award winning custom cars that were featured in national magazines.

Ray’s interests included fishing and hunting trips which he enjoyed with his friends in such places as Alaska, Montana, the east coast, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, etc. He also enjoyed golf, travel, studying investments and the stock market, and meeting and making new friends. He loved to talk and tell stories and was always interested in getting to know people.

Ray is survived by his wife, Nanci Moreton Urias; children, Sonia Urias of Santa Ana, California, Raymond Louis Urias II of Anaheim, California, and Andrea Urias of Grants Pass, Oregon; stepsons, Garet Jimenez (Shandi) of Garden Grove, California and Lucas Jimenez (Holly) of Springfield, Oregon; two sisters, Barbara Granillo of Whittier, California and Dolores Salazar of Cypress, California; nine grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews; and too many friends to counts.