Clarence Ray Xenakis

Clarence Ray Xenakis died in Huntington on September 7, 2026. He was 87. Born in Huntington on February 22, 1939, into a Greek-American household that treated work as a language. He learned early that a day is something you finish, not something you wait for. He turned hours into checks that fed hollows. An adding-machine ribbon saved for lean months; miners trusted his math more than rumor. Colleagues still mention an adding-machine ribbon he saved. He married Imogene in 1966. They kept a house that stayed modest when the neighborhood did not. They raised a son through public schools and ordinary weather. After Imogene died in 2019, he kept the routines that still made sense: the walk, the garden, the Sunday call. Neighbors remember a rake leaned against a shared fence after a storm. He liked early mornings before the heat or the noise. He died in Huntington, among streets he never needed to explain. The porch still expects a returning step.