The Young and the Restless Alum Marguerite Ray Dead At 89 A soap legend is gone Author: East Bay News reported Ray died on Nov. 18. Ray, the eldest of seven children, was born in New Orleans in 1931. She later moved to California with her family. After graduating from Oakland Technical High School in 1948, Ray obtained a degree in Recreation and Theatre Arts from UC Berkeley in 1953. Ray worked in the Bay Area then moved to Europe, where she served as a recreation and entertainment director with the U.S. Special Services in Germany from 1954-59. Ray was bit by the acting bug in the 1960s. She returned from Europe and helped create The Aldridge Players-West, an acting troupe based in San Francisco that toured Historically Black Colleges and Universities.