He attended St. Mary's Grade School and graduated from St. Joseph's High School in 1967 and earned a nursing degree from UW-Parkside.  He was a nurse at the Veterans Hospital in Milwaukee.

Survivors include his mother, Irene, of Kenosha; one brother, Daniel Elfering, of Elwood, Indiana; a niece and nephew, Angela and Anthony Corridini, of Kenosha.

He was preceded in death by his father, Felix, in 1988; a sister, Sharon Lee Corridini, in 1993.

Ray died on March 28, 2005, at his residence.  He was 56 years old.