Ray Perez:  

Life I was born in Phoenix at ST. Josephs Hospital. My earliest memory in when we lived off of 31st ave and Lincon in a trailer my mother had bought from earnings from working as a stand in for Dorthy McGuirre on the movie "The Greatest Story Ever Told" which was filmed up in Page Arizona. I was in that movie also, I'm one of the two children who were used to play the part of Jesus as a baby and young child. I'm the baby in the beginning of the movie and whever you see Mary with the baby Jesus on the donkey thats me and my mother. We moved from there when I was about four to central and lynnwood area where I went to first and part of second grade at Kenilworth Elementary School from there we moved to our frst new home near Sunset Elementry School I went from second to the end of fifth there. I played little league baseball in there in that area. Baseball was and is my favorite sport. From there we moved to Glendale, I lived right on 59th Ave near Laurie Lane in the Thunderbird Estates subdivsion. I went to Unit 1 from sixth to eighth and graduated in 75. I went to Glendale Highschool thru my junior year and was involved in FFA. My parents divorced during those years and it was a hard time in my life, I made alot of bad choices back then which I regret to this day. I was active in the Young Life Club that met at the McKeens house near where I lived. My last year in highschool I spent in Chandler where I attended Chandler Highschool while living with my aunt a...Expand for more