RAMEY HAROLD MARSH

COL Harold "Marsh" Marsh Ramey was a VHPA member who died after his tour in Vietnam on 08/06/2009 at the age of 72.9 from Parkinson's Disease
Boise, ID
Flight Classes 59-7 and 59-1
Date of Birth 09/10/1936
Served in the U.S. Army
Served in Vietnam with 145 CAB in 65-66, 13 CAB in 68, 121 AHC in 69
Call sign in Vietnam TIGER 6
This information was provided by Peter Kacerguis, Wife mailed invoice

More detail on this person: Details provided to MGL from Brian Foote on 23 Jan 2011 as follows:

MARSH RAMEY COLONEL US ARMY, RET 1936 - 2009 "NEVER LET A DAY GO BY THAT YOU DON'T TELL SOMEONE "THANK YOU, I LOVE YOU OR I FORGIVE YOU' THESE WERE THE WORDS BY WHCH MARSH LIVED UNTIL HIS PASSING ON AUGUST 6, 2009. COLONEL RAMEY PASSED AWAY FROM COMPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH AGENT ORANGE. HE WILL BE BURIED WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS. FINAL VIEWING WILL BE HELD AT THE ALDEN- WAGGONER FUNERAL CHAPEL ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009, FROM 5-7 P.M. MARSH WAS BORN IN COTTONWOOD, IDAHO ON SEPTEMBER 10, 1936, SON OF RON RAMEY AND MARCELLA CALDWELL. AT THE AGE OF THREE, HIS PARENTS MOVED TO BOISE WHERE MARSH ATTENDED HIS SCHOOL YEARS, GRADUATING FROM BOISE HIGH SCHOOL IN 1954. DURING HIS YEARS IN BOISE, HE ACTIVELY PARTICIPATED IN SPORTS, ROTC AND SCHOOL POLITICS. HE LOVED FISHING, GOLFING AND CLASSIC AUTOMOBILES. HIS FAVORITE CAR WAS HIS 1942 'DECKED' PURPLE PLYMOUTH ROADSTER. MARSH ATTENDED IDAHO STATE COLLEGE IN POCATELLO AND GRADUATED IN 1959 WITH A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN PHARMACY. HE WAS DESIGNATED AN ROTC DISTINGUISHED MILITARY GRADUATE AND ENTERED THE UNITED STATES ARMY AS A SECOND LIEUTENANT. HE RETIRED IN 1982 AFTER 23 YEARS OF SERVICE AND ATTAINED THE RANK OF FULL COLONEL. HE ATTENDED THE ARMY HELICOPTER SCHOOL IN 1959 AND SERVED TWO HELICOPTER TOURS IN SOUTH VIETNAM. HE ACQUIRED OVER 4000 HOURS OF HELICOPTER FLIGHT TIME AND WAS QUALIFIED TO FLY EVERY TYPE OF HELICOPTER THE ARMY HAD AT THAT TIME. HE HAS BEEN AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS, BRONZE STAR WITH OAK LEAF CLUSTER AND 29 AIR MEDALS FOR HIS SERVICE IN SOUTH VIETNAM. HE HAS RECENTLY BEEN AWARDED THE ARMY AVIATION ASSOCIATION ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL MEDAL AND HAS BEEN NOMINATED TO THE ARMY AVIATION HALL OF FAME. IN 1970 HE WAS SELECTED TO BE PART OF AN ELITE TASK FORCE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. TO DESIGN THE ARMY'S NEW ATTACK HELICOPTER, RESULTING IN TODAY'S AH-64 APACHE-LONGBOW HELICOPTER. ADDITIONALLY, WHILE STATIONED IN WASHINGTON, D.C. IN 1980, HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN FORMING THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS HELICOPTER UNIT THAT TODAY IS NAMED "NIGHT STALKERS". AFTER RETIREMENT FROM THE MILITARY, MARSH JOINED HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY IN LOS ANGELES, CALIF. AND SPENT THE NEXT 17 YEARS DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES INVOLVING INFRARED PILOTAGE AND TARGETING SENSORS FOR BOTH MANNED AND UNMANNED AERIAL PLATFORMS. MARSH IS SURVIVED BY HIS PARENTS, RON AND MARCELLA RAMEY, HIS WIFE ANN (FORMERLY WILLOUGHBY BERGEY), HIS SON RYAN (PATTY) AND GRAND-DAUGHTERS KENDALL AND LEAH OF DENVER, COLO., THREE NEPHEWS LANCE DAVIS AND DAUGHTERS SUMER AND KAYSHA, DARREN (DAVALEE) DAVIS AND SONS TYLER AND TREVOR AND CORY (VALERIE) GASKELL OF BOISE. FOUR STEP-SONS, RIC BERGEY FIX AND DAUGHTER RIKKI, TIM BERGEY AND DAUGHTER KIM AND SON ANDREW, JOE (CHRIS) AND SONS MICHAEL AND MATTHEW OF BOISE, DAN (CATHY) AND DAUGHTERS DANI, ALYSSA AND HEATHER OF SPEARFISH, SD. HE WAS PRECEEDED IN DEATH BY HIS SISTER KAY GASKELL. MARSH LOVED LIFE TO THE FULLEST AND ALL THE CHALLENGES IT BROUGHT WITH IT. HE OFTEN REMARKED "PEOPLE ARE YOUR MOST PRECIOUS COMMODITY, DON'T ABUSE THIS GIFT". HE LEAVES BEHIND MANY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTENCES, INCLUDING THREE MILITARY COMRADES LISTED ON THE VIETNAM MEMORIAL WALL IN WASHINGTON, D.C. MARSH WILL BE BURIED AT THE IDAHO STATE VETERANS CEMETERY WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS. HIS FAMILY INVITES YOU TO JOIN THEM IN A "CELEBRATION OF LIFE" AT THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH AT 10375 W. OVERLAND, BOISE ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009, COMMENCING AT 10:30 A.M. ANY CONTRIBUTIONS SHOULD BE MADE TO THE PARKINSON'S DISEASE NATIONAL FOUNDATION.

Published in Idaho Statesman on August 9, 2009

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