Raynard “Ray” or “Butch” Edward McCormick Jr., age 86, of Brownsville, passed away peacefully on February 10, 2026. He was born October 25, 1939 in Iola, Kansas to Cecille (Farrell) and Raynard Edward McCormick Sr.

Ray grew up in Mexico, Missouri 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, California. 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. He met his wife, Linda, while playing volleyball at the apartment complex they both lived in. They moved to the Portland, Oregon 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; many friends and past co-workers. His sister, Sharon K. McCormick preceded him in death in 2022.

A celebration of life will be 1 pm, Saturday, April 25, 2026 at the Brownsville Recreation Center, 234 Park Avenue. In lieu of flowers, remembrances can be made to the OSU College of Engineering or OSU Baseball Team, through the Oregon State University Foundation, 4238 SW Research Way, Corvallis OR 97333. Sweet Home Funeral Chapel is handling arrangements. www.sweethomefuneral.com.