Donald Ray Blasingame

Background

Blasingame, Donald Ray was born on March 2, 1925 in Wills Point, Texas, United States. Son of Scott Vernon and Clora Hayden (Vance) Blasingame.

Education

Student, Trinity Valley College, 1949-1951.

Career

Loan officer, Tyler (Texas) Production Credit Association, 1947-1952; manager, Federal Land Bank Association, Sulphur Springs, Texas, 1952-1958; regional manager, assistant vice president, Federal Land Bank of Houston, 1958; vice president, Federal Land Bank of Houston, 1974; president, Federal Land Bank Association of Tyler, 1974-1984; director, Federal Land Bank Association of Tyler, since 1990; director, Citizens National Bank, Wills Point, 1981-1990; director, Farm Credit Bank of Texas, Austin, 1988-1990. Finance and legislation consultant, Tyler.

Achievements

• Donald Ray Blasingame has been listed as a noteworthy Banker by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Advisor Texas Farm and Ranch Finance Program, Austin, 1985. Chairman of the Board commissioner Smith County Fire Prevention District 1, since 1996. Member East Texas Fair Association (board directors 1980-1990, president 1985-1987), East Texas Farm & Ranch Club (board directors 1977-1981), Barb Wire Collector Society, Masons (secretary, junior warden, senior warden Wills Point lodge # 422 since 1984).

Interests

• Avocations: collecting barb wire, hunting, fishing.

Connections

Married Christine E. Razz, May 19, 1949 (divorced November 1980). Children: Kathryn Lynn, Alan Ray. Married Mildred Claudia McBay, November 25, 1981.

Father:

Scott Vernon Blasingame

Mother:

Clora Hayden (Vance) Blasingame

Spouse:

Mildred Claudia McBay

Spouse:

Christine E. Razz

child:

Alan Ray Blasingame

child:

Kathryn Lynn Blasingame