Judy Marie Clark Kiray

Judy Marie Kiray nee Clark of Fishers/Carmel, Indiana born February 7, 1939 in Louisville, Kentucky passed away peacefully on August 30, 2014 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was raised in Louisville, Kentucky and attended Valley High School there. At 18 years old she married her high school sweetheart John Richard Kiray in Louisville, Kentucky. They had a Valentines Day Wedding ceremony on February 16, 1957. She had three children by the age of 22 years old, John Richard Jr., Gregory, and daughter Karen. She moved to Indiana in the early 1960s and lived in Frankfort, Zionsville, and Carmel in the 1960s and 1970s. She received her degree in Education from Indiana University in the late 1960s and received her Masters from prestigious Butler University in Elementary Education Specialized Reading. For many years she taught at Woodbrook Elementary School in Carmel. She and her family then moved to Centerville, Ohio where again she taught elementary school at Normandy Elementary and Stingley Elementary in Centerville. She certainly loved teaching. During her time in Centerville she loved driving her powderblue and white chevrolet camaro, loved hostessing parties in her home, and enjoyed being on the family speedboat. In 1998, she and her husband John moved back to Carmel, Indiana where she could enjoy her three granddaughters, Amy, Christine, and Mary. She helped design the layout of their home there. In addition, she was an avid world traveler most of her life and traveled to places such as Australia, England, Norway, Switzerland, Panama Canal, Monaco, Italy, Greece, France, Turkey, Malta, Bahamas, Bermuda, The Carribbean, Mexico, and most of the United States. She was an active member of Baptist, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches where she lived. She loved her bible studies classes at the various churches. She and her husband John loved playing cards, especially bridge. In her later years, she helped start and became active in creating her neighborhood bridge group in Fishers, Indiana. In all of the cities she lived she loved her family, her neighbors, her friends, her classmates, her teacher coworkers and administrative staff, her husbands coworkers, her childrens friends, her church friends, and everyone else. She always cared about others and was a very kind, very intelligent, and generous person. She loved her family dogs, Shih Tzu Charlie Brown, Poodle Mitzi, and Hopkins. They were definitely spoiled by Judy. Her family would like to thank all of the amazing healthcare workers from Allisonville Meadows Nursing Home, IU Health Saxony Hospital, and IU Health University Hospital. Her family is so very grateful to each and every one of you for your assistance. She is preceded in death by Uhlan Clark, her father, Mary Clark, her mother, her father in law EW Kiray, her mother in law Lydia Kiray, her brother in law EW Kiray Jr, her sister in law Mary Rose Lortz, and her greatnephew Eddie Stivers. She is mourned by her husband John Richard Kiray, her three children, John Richard Kiray Jr., Gregory Clark Kiray and his wife Susan, her daughter Karen Kiray, her brother Edward Clark and sister in law Patsy Clark, her three grandchildren, Amy, Christine, and Mary Kiray, and her many nieces and nephews, cousins and their families. Shirley Brothers Crematory in Fishers, Indiana is handling her arrangements. There will be a private memorial service for Judy at a later date in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Judy Marie Clark Kiray

February 7, 1939 - August 30, 2014