It’s not easy to sum up all that Birmingham resident Norma Dean Ray has experienced over nine decades, but she would say that she’s been able to find peace after years of pain.
Ray, once a professional singer in Chicago, Illinois — where she rubbed shoulders with entertainment icons like Nat King Cole, Della Reese, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald — has also worked as cardiovascular technician at UAB Hospital and the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, before retiring.
And now the 92-year-old Ray (she turns 93 on September 28) has become a first-time author…