Lumberton

Ray Ransom, 72, of 3800 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Lot No. 87, died April 19, 2008, at Southeastern Hospice House.

The funeral will be 3 p.m. Tuesday at Revels Funeral Home Chapel in Lumberton. Burial will follow in New Point Baptist Church Cemetery.

Ransom was born on Sept. 20, 1935, in Robeson County. He was the son of the late Ben and Retha Mae Ransom.

He was preceded in death by a son, Kenneth Ray Ransom.

Surviving are four daughters, Jane Graham of Pembroke, Cynthia Jacobs of Rowland, Pamela Ransom of Fairmont, and Shelia Ransom of Pembroke; an adopted daughter, Crystal Lynn Hunt of Lumberton; a brother, Earl “Bubba” Hunt of Lumberton; 15 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; a special friend, Anna Bell Hunt; eight stepchildren, Clematine Hunt of Lumberton, Sadie Rae Hunt of Fairmont, Mary Catherine Oxendine of Rowland, Betty Lou Lewis of High Point, Charles Hunt of Fairmont, Stanley Hunt of Rowland, Ronald Dean Hunt of Lumberton, and Lonnie Jr. Hunt of Rowland; 28 stepgrandchildren; and 28 stepgreat-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Revels Funeral Home in Lumberton.