CLARENCE E. MAY, JR., was born in Ranger, TX
on June 8, 1920, to Lydia Victoria Harrison and
Clarence E. May. His father came to Ranger about
1908 and married his mother in 1911. His father was
a pharmacist and drug store owner before going into
oil, banking & insurance. Clarence, Jr., had two
sisters, Annie Katherine who was born in 1913 and
died in 1921, & Doris Mary (RHS-1939) who married
James Black Hay and died in 1984.
Clarence, Jr. attended Ranger High School in the
Class of 1937, Tarleton College at Stephenville,
and graduated from the University of Texas with
a BBA. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity.
He joined the U.S. Navy reserves while at UT. He
served as an officer in the U.S. Navy after
receiving his commission when he finished the New
York USNR Midshipman's school (OCS). He had training
at Columbia and Ohio State Universities and later
he served as an instructor at Norfolk, VA, before
being ordered aboard ship in the Atlantic Fleet.
He married Jane Burns in 1949 and they had two
children, a daughter Linda who married Phillip Ray
Jones & live in St. Louis with two sons and
John Burns who is a CPA in Phoenix, AZ.
Clarence, Jr., died in Phoenix on March 6, 1999.
Jane Burns May died in June of 2000 at Phoenix.