OBIT: Ralston O. GETTEMY, 1980, formerly of Blair County, PA

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Former City Doctor Dies
DR. RALSTON O. GETTEMY

  Dr. Gettemy, 90 of 449 Laury Lane, New Wilmington, a former general 
practitioner in Altoona and former president of the Blair County
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, died Tuesday, Feb 26,
1980, in Jameson Memorial Hospital, New Castle, following a brief
illness.
  Dr. Gettemy retired as dean of Blair County's doctors and from the 
Altoona Hospital staff in 1974 after 57 year's service.  He specialized
in internal medicine.  
  He had served as president of the Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease 
Association for 26 years, and was a former director of the organization.
  He was born March 13, 1889, in Donegal, the son of Noah and Mary 
(Wimer) Gettemy, and July 1, 1918, married Margaret Yarnall.
  Surviving are his wife, three children, Dean of Detroit, Mich.;  Mrs. 
Mary Louise Ireland of New Wilmington RD 3 and Mrs. Margaret Register
of Rochester, N.Y.:  nine grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Jessie
Ambrose of Stahlstown.
  Dr. Gettemy was a member of the New Wilmington United Presbyterian
Church and while in Altoona was a member of the First Unite
Presbyterian Church, where he was a member of the choir and was Sunday
school superintendent for 25 years.  He received a 50 year citation
from the Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association for his service
as a Sunday school teacher.
  Dr. Gettemy attended Indiana University and graduated from the
University of  Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1917.  He opened his
practiced in Altoona in 1919.
  He was past president of the Blair County Medical Society and past vice 
president of the Pennsylvania State Heart Association.
  Dr. Gettemy was a 50-year member of Logan F&AM Lodge and a member of
the Jaffa Shrine Temple.  He served overseas with the Army medical
corps during World War 1.
  Friends will be received Thursday in the E. Gailey Sharp Funeral Home,
New Wilmington.  Interment in Fair Oaks Cemetery, New Wilmington.

Altoona Mirror, February 27, 1980