Ray J. McDonald: Marine, Physical Therapist and Sports Trainer

This article is part of a series which focuses on notable people who have at one time called the Cove home.

"He was a person with goals in mind when he was a child to change things," Joe McDonald said of his father, Ray.

Born in Sproul in 1922, Ray J. McDonald had some hills to climb, one of them being the death of his father at the age of 16. Ray had to assist in helping a family of six. That was back in 1938.

McDonald enlisted to go to World War II. He joined the Marines. It was in his third year in battle when he was in The Pacific Division and the Japanese blew up the ship. He was blown of...