Raymond Smith Edward McGarry

CRANSTON - McGARRY, Raymond S., 86, of Doric Avenue, died Saturday at Roger Williams Medical Center. He was the beloved husband of Mabel C. (Sullivan) McGarry. They had been married for 55 years. Born in Providence, a son of the late Francis and Delia (Smith) McGarry, he had lived in Cranston for the past 52 years. Mr. McGarry had been an airplane mechanic for the U.S. Government at Quonset Point in North Kingstown for 21 years before he retired in 1975. Previously he had been a sheet metal worker for the New York/New Haven/Hartford Railroad for 10 years. He was a Army Air Corps veteran of WWII, serving as a Technical Sergeant with the 13th Air Force in the Pacific Theater. He was a communicant of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish. He had great enjoyment in working in his yard, and he had an affinity for animals, especially dogs. Besides his wife, he leaves his children, Kathleen M. Kittredge and her husband Raymond of Cranston, and Kevin P. McGarry and his wife Marilyn of Lexington, KY; a brother Leo McGarry and a sister Kathryn McGarry both in Providence, and his grandchildren, Conor and Brooke McGarry, and Daniel, Sarah, and Rebecca Kittredge. He was the brother of the late Joseph, and Francis McGarry and Marguerite Bracq. His funeral will be Tuesday at 9:15am from the Russell J. Boyle & Son Funeral Home, 331 Smith Street, Providence. Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30am in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 64 Brayton Ave., Providence. Burial will be in Swan Point Cemetery. Visitation Monday 4-7pm.