Ray Gobin, living with his parents Lloyd and Ruby, his brother C.D.
     and his sister Lorraine, grew up on a farm in Pratt County, Kansas. He
     attended grades 1 through 8 at a rural school and his freshman year at
     Antrim High School before moving to Isabel, Kansas. As a boy he helped
     on the farm and with his brother, trapped and sold furs for pocket money.
          In 1942 the family moved to a ranch known as the Crossfield ranch
     southwest of Isabel. This ranch is close to 99 Springs. Here they farmed
     and raised cattle. They later moved into Isabel where he finished high
     school.
          In 1946 he joined the Navy and served in Japan and the Phillipines.
     After returning home he worked for local farmers and drove the school bus
     until he married Helen Banks in the Isabel Methodist Church in 1948.
          Helen grew up on the Banks farm and attended all 12 years at Isabel
     where both she and Ray graduated in 1945. Before she married she taught
     1 year in a one room schoolhouse southeast of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, where
     she taught 7 grades and had 8 pupils. She then taught 2 years at Coats, 
     Kansas.
          After their marriage Ray went to school at Pittsburg State College.
     They then moved to Wichita, Kansas where Ray worked for a distributor of 
     Frigidaire products. Later he worked as a district manager for Frigidaire 
     and traveled Kansas and part of Oklahoma and Missouri, until his early
     retirement.
          Since Ray traveled Helen chose to become a full time Mother, working
     only occasionally outside their home. She kept busy with the usual things
     involving children - Scouts, 4-H, school and church activities and
     chauffering her own and neighborhood children. She enjoyed painting, crafts,
     etc.
          Ray now represents a furniture company, still traveling much of the
     same territory. They live in Overland Park, Kansas.
          They have two daughters. Sherolyn, her husband Gary and daughter
     Shannon live in Alabama. Rhonda, her husband Don and son Ray live in Iowa.
          The family enjoys meeting for vacations at their cabin in the Ozarks.
               
     Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987,  pg. 78