Manchester Icon Passes Away

Ray Marcrom with his son Samuel at the Masters Golf Tournament a few years ago. Photos from Facebook.

Manchester icon, businessman, and community leader Ray Marcrom passed away on Tuesday morning. According to a church member at Forest Mill Church of Christ, Mr. Marcrom was helping with the Church’s ramp building (for disabled persons) ministry when he suffered a medical emergency.

In 1978 Ray Marcrom opened Marcrom’s Pharmacy, which remains in operation. Marcrom also helped start the College of Pharmacy program at David Lipscomb University.