My Dear Companion

We lost a dear friend this week. Margaret Ray passed away at her home in Greenbottom, WV, after a difficult bout of sickness. She just turned 64 last spring. Margaret came into our lives, gosh, 40 years ago, at those crazy music parties where The Flood born. She was the beautiful, young hot guitar player who wowed us all on those smoky nights in a Huntington Southside living room. And Margaret came back into our lives just a few years ago when she and Joe Dobbs renewed their close friendship. Joe even got her playing music again, and he and Margaret took long, memorable road trips, from Florida to Alaska and other points along the way. Those good times made the last years of Joe’s life and Margaret’s a sweet thing for us in the Family Flood to watch from the sidelines. Well, Margaret was much on our minds last night as we sat down to rehearse. Rest in peace, love.