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He was born on August 11, 1923 at Kabletown, WV and was the son of the late John Franklin Myers and Helen Moler Myers.

He was a self-employed businessman in Jefferson County.

He was a member of Zion Episcopal Church in Charles Town, and an active member of the Shenandoah Junction Ruritan Club.

He was a WWII veteran having served in the US Navy, Asiatic-Pacific, Landing Craft Infantry. Raymond was present at the raising of our flag at Iwojima.

He is survived by three daughters, Julie Myers Prosser, and husband, Peter, of Australia, Debbie Whitmore, and husband, Scott, of Rohrersville, MD, and Linda Raye Myers, of Halltown, WV; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 49 years, Mary Susan “Susie” Hanshew Myers.

Services will be held on Thursday, April 19, 2007, at 1 p.m. at Zion Episcopal Church, 300 East Congress Street, Charles Town, with the Reverend Melanie McCarley officiating. Interment will be in Pleasant View Memory Gardens at Martinsburg.

The family will receive friends on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Eackles-Spencer & Norton Funeral Home, US 340 at Halltown Road, Charles Town/Harpers Ferry, WV.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Shenandoah Junction Ruritan Club, c/o Treasurer, P. O. Box 136, Shenandoah Junction, WV 25442 or to Zion Episcopal Church, (office) 221 East Washington Street, Charles Town, WV, 25414.

Condolences to the family may be made at his obituary at www.eackles-spencerfuneralhome.com