Ralph E. Ogelvie, son of the late Earnest Ogelvie and Ruth Ogelvie Hausmann  was born on May 14, 1937 in Dexter, Missouri and departed this life on July 15, 2016 at his residence in Dexter at the age of 79.

Mr. Ogelvie was a veteran of the United States Army.  He was a welder at Arvin Automotive in Dexter, a member of the Sugar Tree General Baptist Church in Bernie and was a resident of Dexter.

On June 18, 1961, Mr. Ogelvie was united in marriage to Joyce Campbell in Dexter.  Mrs. Ogelvie survives of the home in Dexter.

Survivors include three sons, Dewayne Ogelvie and wife Marla of Costa Mesa, California, Earnest Ogelvie of Dexter and Mark Ogelvie and wife Pamela of Dexter;  by four daughters, Lisa Bradford of Dudley, Kimberly Smith of De Soto, Gayla Oglevie of Dexter and Michelle Ogelvie of Poplar Bluff;  by three brothers, Thomas Ogelvie and companion Shirley of Dexter, Charles Ogelvie and wife Gloria of Acorn Ridge, and Bob Hausmann and wife Mary of Bristo, Connecticut; by three sisters, Linda Vetter and husband Robert of Eldred, Illinois, Betty Kreiger and husband Alan of Troy, New York and Mary Lee and husband Robert of Hardin, Illinois; and by ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by two sisters, Thelma Foutch and Shirley Tate and by two son in laws, Greg Bradford and Delbert Smith.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Sunday, July 24, 2016 from 5:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. 

Services will be conducted on Monday, July 25, 2016 at 11:00 A. M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter with Rev. Joe Ogelvie officiating. 

Interment will follow in the Smith Stevenson Cemetery