Funeral services for Raymond Joseph Reilly III will be held at ll a.m., July 10, at St. Francis Church, 900 H. St. Visitation will be at Mission Funeral Home, 531 California Ave., on July 9, from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. The family will be receiving friends and family from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Ray died in an accident July 4, 2004

He was born September 1, 1958 to Raymond and Monica Reilly in Okarche, Oklahoma. Ray grew up in Fredrick, Maryland, where he graduated from Prospect Hall Catholic High School. Ray played every sport possible, from football to basketball, and graduated with honors.

Ray graduated from Arizona State University in Phoenix with a Bachelor of Science degree. He attended medical school. Later, Ray and his young family moved to Ventura, CA, where he sold pacemakers for Intermedics. In 1990, he was transferred to Bakersfield where he continued implanting and servicing pacemakers and defibrillators. Ray was well respected by cardiologists, patients and colleagues for his work.

Ray received his Eagle Scout award in 1975 and his Ad Altare Dei Medal. He was his son Joey's Tiger Club leader and would have been his Wolf master this fall. Ray helped Joey make his Pinewood Derby car, which crashed and was later repaired. He took his three children camping and taught them how to shoot guns and roller skate. His girls remember that he took them to Rollerama every Saturday morning for three years. Ray was a father who tried to help with homework and was usually successful at it. His girls, Catie and Megan, were Daddy's girls who could wrap him around their little fingers.

Ray was an avid sportsman who traveled to Canada and Africa to hunt large game. He also was a history buff and pilot with a commercial rating who flew gliders and loved airplanes all his life.

He is survived by his wife, Mary; children, Catie, Megan, and Joey; his father, Raymond; his sister, Susan Reilly; niece, Carissa Reilly-Weedon; his aunt, Betty Reilly; his cousins, Matt and Shannon Reilly, and extended family.

Interment will be at Resthaven in Frederick, Maryland where his mother and his brother, Peter, are buried.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Raymond Reilly Memorial Fund, c/o St. Francis Catholic Church, San Joaquin Bank, 1301 17th St., Bakersfield, Ca 93301

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