How Ray Thurman Constructed a Tireless Career

A Monthly Feature by ELAINE THOMAS Fayette Co. native Ray Thurman has poked around corners of the world that few of us could locate on a globe The day Ray Thurman graduated from La Grange High School in 1953, his stepfather took him aside and told the 17-year-old to find his own life. Ray could no longer live at home. The decree came as a shock, even though the two had never gotten along. Ray…