Died October 31, 1981
Former Johnson County Councilman dies
Ray Farmer Hendricks, 76, a former Johnson County councilman, died early Saturday morning at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis where he was admitted late Friday evening. Mr. Hendricks was councilman-at-large from 1970 to 1980. Active in the Johnson County Republican party, he led the ticket in 1976. He was appointed as Johnson County building administrator in 1962, and served for eight years. Mr. Hendricks was a member of the Johnson County Mental Health Board and was a director of the Johnson County Historical Society. He was an elder, deacon and trustee in the Hopewell Presbyterian Church, a member of Union Village Masonic Lodge 545, charter member of the Bargersville Community Club and a charter member and 25 year member of the Bargersville Volunteer Fire Department where he served as chaplain. He was also a director of the Bargersville Senior Citi- zens club. Mr. Hendricks was born Aug. 20, 1905, in Needham Township, Johnson County, to Otto L. and Mabelle (Farmer) Hendricks. He married Mary Jane Math- ena, Sept. 1,1926, and she survives. He was a 1923 graduate of Franklin High School. A retired woodworker, Mr. Hendricks owned and operated Ray F. Hendricks Plumbing and Heating and Cabinet Build- ing for many years. The Revs. Harrison Neal and James Schaffer will conduct a service at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Hopewell Presbyterian Church where the body will lie in state one hour before the service. Friends may call after 2 p.m. today and until noon Tuesday at Vandivier- Tudor Bargersville Chapel. Burial will be at Hopewell Cemetery. A Masonic memorial service will be held at the funeral home at 8:30 tonight. Other survivors include a son, Donald Ray Hendricks, Greenwood route three; a brother, Lowell Wayne Hendricks, Co- lumbus; a half sister, Juanita Day, North Vernon, and a half brother, Otto Hend- ricks Jr., also of North Vernon. Two grandchildren, two great-grand- children and eight nephews also survive.Transcribed from materials in the Genealogy Library Family Files collection of the Johnson County Museum of History, 135 N. Main Street, Franklin, IN 46131