Raynard McCormick Jr.
Oct. 10, 1939 – Feb. 10, 2026
Raynard “Ray” or “Butch” Edward McCormick Jr., 86, of Brownsville, passed away peacefully on Feb. 10, 2026.
He was born in Iola, Kan. to Cecille (Farrell) and Raynard Edward McCormick Sr.
Ray grew up in Mexico, Mo., until his high school years when the family moved to South San Francisco. He went on to college at Santa Clara University and graduate school at Oregon State University (Go Beavers!) as an electrical engineer.
He worked at Lockheed Martin and Sylvania in the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to Southern California to work for McDonnell Douglas in Huntington Beach, Calif. While working for McDonnell Douglas he was involved with a solar program in the Mojave Desert. Some of the software he created for the solar project is still used in the industry today.
Ray met his wife, Linda, while playing volleyball at the apartment complex they both lived in. They moved to the Portland area in 1981. He worked for Electro Scientific Industries (ESI) and ended up later at Tektronix, working on color printers.
Just before his retirement Xerox bought the company and he worked for them long enough to get his pension. By that time, the couple had bought a home in Brownsville, where they lived until his death.
Ray loved the outdoors, watching sports and was an avid stock market watcher. He was very supportive of his wife’s civic activities even though he kept asking when she was going to retire!
Ray is survived by his wife, Linda (Lewis) McCormick; cousins; and many friends and past co-workers.
His sister, Sharon K. McCormick preceded him in death in 2022.
A celebration of life will be planned in the future.
Sweet Home Funeral Chapel is handling the arrangements.