Poughkeepsie Journal
Poughkeepsie, New York
Sunday, January 14, 1973

Mr. Gaddis

Raymond M. Gaddis, Jr., 7 Hooker Ave., died Saturday at Castle Point Hospital after a long illness. He was 60.

Gaddis, a son of the late Raymond M. and Isabelle McGreif Gaddis, retired in 1962 as a pharmaceutical representative with Holland Rantos Pharmaceutical Co., New York.

Mr. Gaddis, born Aug. 29, 1912 in Poughkeepsie, was educated at Albany schools and then St. John's University and Patterson Commercial College. He married Jeanette Ventomirto, in LaGrangeville on May 31, 1936. Mrs. Gaddis survives. He served in the Marine Corps during World War 2.

After spending some time in Covina, Cal., he resided in Poughkeepsie and attended the Holy Trinity Church, Arlington.

Other survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Delores Carter, Centereach, L.I., and Mrs. Barbara Johnson, New Orleans; a son, Raymond III; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Murphy, both of Poughkeepsie, and seven grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Friday at 9:15 a.m. at the Robert H. Auchmoody Funeral Home, 16 Grand Ave. Forty-five minutes later a Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at Holy Trinity Church.

Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday 7-9 p.m. and Thursday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Prayers will be offered Thursday at 8.

Interment will be in St. Peter's Cemetery.

Raymond Marcus Gaddis, Jr (1912)