On April 15, the new owner of Ray’s Service Center at 228 Louisiana Avenue met with customers and family members of the late Ray Jeffers, who passed away in November.

“I thank the Good Lord we had Ray for 45 years,” Mrs. Jeffers said. “We had a wonderful life.”

Mrs. Jeffers said her late husband let her know two weeks before he died whom he wanted to buy the station if he died. “He told us about Mat…