Ray Wayne Hines, 100, of Belle Plaine went home to be with the Lord and to join other loved ones on Sunday, March 18, 2012 in St. Luke's Hospital surrounded by his loving family. Services will be 10:00 AM Saturday, March 24 at the Hrabak Funeral Home in Belle Plaine by Rev. Charles Johnson. Burial will be in Rector Cemetery, Chelsea. Visitation will be from 4:00 - 8:00 PM Friday at the funeral home. Ray is survived by his seven children, Lyle (Joy) Hines, Luella (Dale) Johnson, Larry (Cyndee) Hines, Linda (Don) Morrow, Katy (Bill) Grieder, LaDonna (John) Zhorne, Monica Jacobi (Wendell Sollars), thirty-seven grandchildren, seventy-four great-grandchildren, and twenty great-great-grandchildren; and also sister-in-law, Leola Hines, nephew Leonard Hines, brother-in-law Vic Snyder, and niece, Sandra Wellman. Ray was preceded in death by his wife Lyda Thibadeau Hines in 2007, a son Lowell Dean in 1958, brother Clyde Hines, and sister, Alberta Snyder. Ray was born January 27, 1912 in Edgewood, Iowa. On June 9, 1933 he married Lyda Thibadeau. Ray and Lyda were married for seventy-four years, owned and operated Ryan Hardware in Chelsea, retiring in 1975. Since 1984 Ray and Lyda would spend their winters in Casa Grande, Arizona. This January Ray celebrated his 100th birthday with a party in Arizona joined by several of his family and friends. A memorial fund has been established.