Russell Archibald Raiinsey ’25

RUSS RANSEY WAS BORN in Sandusky, Ohio, Mar. 11, 1904. He was president of his class at Howe Military Academy. At Princeton he was on the polo team, a captain in R.O.T.C., and a member of Court Club. Obtaining his law degree at Michigan, he practiced in Sandusky. He was a president of the Erie County Bar Assn., a director of the Western Security Bank, a trustee of Howe Military Academy, senior warden of Grace Episcopal Church and of the governing board of the Diocese of Ohio, and president of the Good Samaritan Hospital.

A captain in die Ohio Natl. Guard, he was mobilized in Oct. 1940. He spent 42 of the next 62 months in the Pacific, and was awarded numerous decorations for valor. He retired as a colonel. Upon demobilization, he was appointed a brigadier and, later, major general in command of the third infantry division of the Army Reserve, with headquarters in Cleveland.

He married Louise Wilcox in 1929. They retired in Gainesville, Fla., in 1974. He died in Albany, Ga., Feb. 20, 1991. He is survived by his son, Russell of Albany, Ga., a daughter, Florence Waldock, 12 grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.

The Class of 1925