Point Danger Marine Rescue remembers one of their own
THE longest serving president of Marine Rescue Point Danger received a fitting farewell when his ashes were scattered at the mouth of the Tweed River on Wednesday.
A flotilla of seven boats and crew members from the Point Danger and Cabarita Marine Rescue units participated in the remembrance service for Terranora resident Ray Wells.
Mr Wells died on September 24 aged 80 after a four year illness.
Ray joined Marine Rescue Point Danger (then known as Tweed-Coolangatta Air Sea Rescue) in 1984.
He gave 29 years of dedicated volunteer service and was presented with a Life Membership.
He held various roles within the unit, including controller, chief of operations, grants officer, vice president and president for 11 years.
His widow Barbara said Ray would have enjoyed the ash scattering ceremony.
The youngest of their five children, Jackie, poured out her father's ashes on the river while Barbara and other family members placed roses in the water.
She said the Marine Rescue meant a lot to her husband as the sea was in his blood.
"His father was a commercial fisherman in South Australia.
Current Point Danger Marine Rescue unit commander Glenda Ashby said Ray was well known and respected by community leaders on both sides of the border and within the Marine Rescue Units.
