Funeral for Lois E. Ray of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. The Revs. Bill Ellis and Mark Anderson will officiate. Burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery.

Ray, 67, died Thursday, March 12, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

She was born July 5, 1930, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Orville A. and Helen R. Stewart Howell.

She was formerly employed in food service management at Southeast Missouri State University. She was a member of Lynwood Baptist Church.

Survivors include a son, Stan Ray of Nixa; a daughter, Diana Osborn of Poplar Bluff; a brother, Larry Howell of Carmel, Ind.; and five grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother.