Ray Reed at 23

•February 24, 2016•

Ray Reed of Sullivan is a Leap Year child, and this Monday, February 29, Ray will turn 23 years old.

“Or 92 if you’re counting,” Ray quipped. “You know I have done just about everything there is to do in life.”

He started reeling off some of the things he has done.

“I’ve sold about everything a person can sell from cars and real estate to appliances and paint.”

At one point Reed rebuilt carburetors and generators at the local auto dealership in Shelbyville. “You know cars don’t even have carburetors and generators any more,” he said of the changing times.

He spent 21 years working as an electrician for the railroad, but not before he got a serious lesson about electricity.

“I got hold of a saw with a short in it and grabbed a steel bar,” Ray recalled of his first experience.

“It almost killed me so I decided I better learn how to deal with this stuff.”

He even spent a few years as a television repair man, making house calls with a bag full of replacement tubes.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.