Ray Marchman, a onetime Chicago resident, passed away in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on June 6. He was 87.
According to an obituary on Dignity Memorial’s website, Marchman was born in Miami in 1933—the only child of Mable Parr Marchman and Raymond Marchman, both natives of Georgia.
Marchman graduated from Miami Senior High School, Emory University and the University of Miami School of Law. He started his long and distinguished career by serving in the United States Air Force as a jet fighter pilot, eventually retiring from the Reserve as a lieutenant colonel.
After serving as legal assistant to Farris Bryant, then governor of Florida, in 1961, Marchman spent a year as an attorney with Shutts & Bowen before joining the Northern Trust in Chicago as vice president in charge of trust marketing. He spent 34 years with Northern Trust—the first 15 in Chicago, and 19 primarily in Florida—before retiring in 2001 as senior vice president and director of marketing for the Northern Trust Corporation. He continued to consult for another five years.
Marchman is survived by his devoted husband, Joe Siolek.
The full obituary is at http://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/fort-lauderdale-fl/raymond-marchman-10225226.