DEAR COUSIN HEAL / where have you gone my friend

+THE UNSUNG HERO+

>neal lost his mother at birth and cared for his<

>beloved first wife patricia even after she didn't<

+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+

+> / NEAL PENDLETON)+

>know who he was / >his obituary doesn't share<

>his poignant drawings made expressing anguish<

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+NEAL & >I SHARED MANY THINGS+

>(we both were >blessed w/<

>2 wives of grace & virtue)<

+INCLUDING deGRUY FRENCH DNA+

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+NEAL WAS A DUFOUCHARD deGRUY+

>(nothing snooty here just<

>two  branches of degruy)<

+DNA & I WAS VERLOIN de GRUY DNA+

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>architectural history & persona in new orleans<

>was important to both of us and neal followed<

+(ARCHITECTURE WAS VITAL+

+TO OUR >SHARED DIALOG<)+

>my career by articles in the nola times picayune<

>his career related >strongly to nola schools built<

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 +WE SHARED NOLA ROOTS+
>we both loved historic new orleans collection<
>archives very much and neal joined marianne<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+ / JOHN H. LAWRENCE)+
>and i when i visited the archive / john lawrence<
>would assembly excellent presentations for us<
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 +GOOD NIGHT SWEET PRINCE+
>neal's funeral on saturday shall be modest<
>compared to the >funeral of the last< holy<
>roman emperor / the habsburg prince died<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY /+
+HABSBURG EMPEROR)+
>@100 years, >married to our vergy princes<
>the shroud he gave to the pope's protection<
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 +WE SHARED TULANE UNIVERSITY+
>yes neal & i both graduated from tulane unitv<
>where intuitively i constructed installations w/<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+ / KNIGHTS TEMPLAR)+
>degree vergy ray linkage to the shroud of turin<
>little did i realise i might link to neal's passing<
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+WE SHARED GRUY-DREUX+
>neal sent me this amazing blazon that links<
>our degruy dna not only to the football star<
>but to the french kings via the dreux family<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+ / DREUX CHATEAU)+
>vital is >all french kings are buried at dreux<
>chateau (bob dreux. arch. was a nola friend)<
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 +WE SHARED NOLA ARCHITECTURE+
>after much research i discovered mary plantation<
>linked the roy (cavaroc & gruy) dna to the delery<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+>> / ROY FAMILY DNA)+
>owners / >neal enjoyed my blogs about nola history<
>especially when it related to our family plantations<
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 +WE SHARED TURIN SHROUD+
>the most vital, interesting research discovery<
>i made was our de gruyere family link to the<
+(GOOGLE  : EUGENE RAY +
+ / VERGY GRUY DNA)+
>vergy family & the shroud of turin & knights<
>templar ray-gruyere-bresse-savoy dna linkage<
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+WE SHARED GRUYERE CASTLE+
>neal was very interested in our >de gruy origins<
>from the counts of gruyere in switzerland to the<
>de gruy chateau magny fouchard in orient forest<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+> / GRUYERE CASTLE)+
>location near troyes >(origins of knights templar)<
>also  >origins of the first masonic lodge in france<
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 +WE SHARED CREOLE HISTORY+
>this rare and >profound photo in my archive<
>depicts >great grandmother heloise lamothe<
+(GOOGLE :>>>>> EUGENE RAY /+
+HELOISE LAMOTHE CAVAROC)+
>cavaroc & sister in front of cavaroc plantation<
>on the mississipi ri. @ chalmette south of nola<
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 +WE SHARED NOLA PLANTATIONS+
>i took this 1952 photo of the cavaroc plantation<
>house when i >started studying architecture< at<
>tulane university / >the next year i designed my<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY /+
+CAVAROC PLANTATION)+
>first constructed building, a church for the dept.<
>of institutions, >state of louisiana< (jackson la.)<
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 +WE SHARED MANY ANCESTORS+
>in the 1960s i took many photographs in the<
>st. louis cemeteries >looking for ancestors &<
+(GOOGLE :> EUGENE RAY+
+ / ST. LOUIS CEMETARY)+
>this favorite illustrates a nola legend of a vine<
>growing out of someones heart in a nola tomb<
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 +WE SHARED FRENCH HISTORY+
>neal read my blog carefully< and this de ray<
>chateau at ray-sur-saone france was favorite<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+>>> / de RAY CASTLE)+
>because the shroud of turin was first brought<
>here and given to the vergy-charney marriage<
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 +NEAL SENT FRENCH CLIPPINGS+
>st. bernard de clairvaux was brains behind<
>the >knights templar and their architecture<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+>>> / ORIENT FOREST)+
>degruy chateau was close by and the shroud<
>of turin >lerey vergy-charney chapel not far<
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+WE VISITED DESTREHAN TWICE+
>our foucher / (degruy) plantation on the site<
>where >tulane university is built in old nola<
+(GOOGLE :>> EUGENE RAY /+
+DESTREHAN PLANTATION)+
>leads via dna to destrehen plantation / there<
>was a sugar rivalry between degruy, foucher<
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+ADJUNCT REFERENCES+
>i hate posted much data on my Facebook<
>page in >reference to the passing of neal<
+(GOOGLE : EUGENE RAY+
+>> / FACEBOOK PAGE)+
>pendleton our cousin & friend / >there is<
>an obituary and neals poignant drawings<
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+ALSO SEE CHARNEY-VERGY+
>(fascinating french history<
>templar architecture data<
>shroud of turin< linkage)<
+GRUY LINK, TEMPLAR REFS+
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
eugene ray, mfa, architect
professor emeritus, sdsu