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Henry Gene Ray, 83, peacefully passed away at his home in Reno, Texas on March 27, 2022 after a brief battle with cancer.

SOUTH BEND — Roy Saenz remembers when he was a teen and started working with his uncle Rene Saenz promoting Tejano concerts in South Bend and across the Midwest. Roy, who now lives in Arizona, saw how hard his uncle worked to develop a live music market for the area’s growing Mexican community. And man, did he work. “We had to do everything,” Roy recalled. “Rene would drive all over — down sometimes to Indianapolis to Ohio and to Grand Rapids and everywhere in betw...