ATLANTA, Georgia, May 16, 1939 – Ray Stanley Baxter, formerly a well-known Atlanta musician died Saturday at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, friends here were notified yesterday.

A World War veteran, Baxter served overseas with the 61st Infantry and was a member of the regimental band.  At the close of the war he came here to live and about four years ago moved to Washington to take a position with the Department of the Interior.

Funeral services will be held today at Washington and burial will be in the National Cemetery.

Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Miss Minna Gertrude Baxter, and two brothers, Verne and Harold Baxter.

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