Remembering Ray Rainwater
He loved to be busy.
Ray Rainwater, the owner of the Rainwater Concrete Debris Landfill in Lorton, died of heart failure on Jan. 5 at age 85. He was surrounded by his family at his home on Mason Neck. His widow Linda Rainwater is managing, and she smiles generously as visions of her husband pass through her mind. "The last words that he said… He called out my name and the kids came and got me, and he said 'Linda.' He hadn't moved for hours, but he looked up in a very controlled way," she said, "and he lifted up his left arm and put it on my shoulder and walked it underneath my hair, and he said, 'Love,' and that was his last word. It was such a beautiful, beautiful thing." The story of Ray and Linda Rainwater is about true love, and to her, he was a force of …
