James Blakely Ramage, 82, of Atlanta, was a retired agency manager for Equitable Life Assurance Society and a civic leader.
The memorial service for Mr. Ramage, who died Sunday from complications of cancer at Piedmont Hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church. The body was cremated. H.M. Patterson & Son, Oglethorpe Hill, is in charge of arrangements
James Blakely "Jim" Ramage was a son of Sterling Combs and Marie Achsia Davis Ramage.
Mr. Ramage joined the Equitable Life Assurance Society after graduating from Georgia Tech and stayed with the company for the next 60 years, eventually rising to become an award-winning manager of the company's Atlanta office.
In 1966, he won the Gold President's Trophy, which signified the No. 1 agency of 176 agencies in the company then.
He was a past president of five professional organizations, served on the board of directors of two others and received two service awards from local and state associations. Until recently, Mr. Ramage, who enjoyed a competitive game of bridge or golf, was still going into the Buckhead office several times a week, helping some of his longtime clients, said Jim Stewart of Marietta, operations manager for Equitable Life Assurance Society.
Mr. Ramage was a past president of the Georgia Easter Seal Society and Buckhead Civitan Club and was a board member of the Salvation Army and the March of Dimes.
During World War II, he was a U.S. Army commandant in the Communication Zone Headquarters in North African, Mediterranean and European Theaters. He retired as a colonel in the Army Reserves, according to his wife, Charlotte Galbraith Ramage of Atlanta.
"He was very much involved in the Atlanta community and was a good friend of Equitable Life and a good friend of the insurance industry," said Mr. Stewart. Born in Cleburne, Texas, Mr. Ramage came to Atlanta as a child.
While a student at Georgia Tech, the industrial management major helped lead the cheers for the football team and was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa honorary fraternity for a distinguished academic and leadership record.
Since graduating in 1937, Mr. Ramage, as class representative, helped organize class reunions held every five years.
In October, he was among those recruiting volunteers and organizing the celebration for his 60-year class reunion, according to Beth Price of Chamblee, director of programming for the Georgia Tech Alumni Association. He was the 1970-71 president of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association.
He was a member of the Capital City Club and a past chairman of the Phoenix Society, which holds debutante balls at Cherokee Country Club.
Survivors other than his wife are two daughters, Nancy Callahan of Franklin, N.C., and Lynn Ramage Dennison of Atlanta; a son, James B. Ramage Jr. of Atlanta; two sisters, Dorothy R. Thomas of Atlanta and Virginia R. Smith of Midlothian, Texas; and five grandchildren.
The memorial service for Mr. Ramage, who died Sunday from complications of cancer at Piedmont Hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church. The body was cremated. H.M. Patterson & Son, Oglethorpe Hill, is in charge of arrangements
James Blakely "Jim" Ramage was a son of Sterling Combs and Marie Achsia Davis Ramage.
Mr. Ramage joined the Equitable Life Assurance Society after graduating from Georgia Tech and stayed with the company for the next 60 years, eventually rising to become an award-winning manager of the company's Atlanta office.
In 1966, he won the Gold President's Trophy, which signified the No. 1 agency of 176 agencies in the company then.
He was a past president of five professional organizations, served on the board of directors of two others and received two service awards from local and state associations. Until recently, Mr. Ramage, who enjoyed a competitive game of bridge or golf, was still going into the Buckhead office several times a week, helping some of his longtime clients, said Jim Stewart of Marietta, operations manager for Equitable Life Assurance Society.
Mr. Ramage was a past president of the Georgia Easter Seal Society and Buckhead Civitan Club and was a board member of the Salvation Army and the March of Dimes.
During World War II, he was a U.S. Army commandant in the Communication Zone Headquarters in North African, Mediterranean and European Theaters. He retired as a colonel in the Army Reserves, according to his wife, Charlotte Galbraith Ramage of Atlanta.
"He was very much involved in the Atlanta community and was a good friend of Equitable Life and a good friend of the insurance industry," said Mr. Stewart. Born in Cleburne, Texas, Mr. Ramage came to Atlanta as a child.
While a student at Georgia Tech, the industrial management major helped lead the cheers for the football team and was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa honorary fraternity for a distinguished academic and leadership record.
Since graduating in 1937, Mr. Ramage, as class representative, helped organize class reunions held every five years.
In October, he was among those recruiting volunteers and organizing the celebration for his 60-year class reunion, according to Beth Price of Chamblee, director of programming for the Georgia Tech Alumni Association. He was the 1970-71 president of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association.
He was a member of the Capital City Club and a past chairman of the Phoenix Society, which holds debutante balls at Cherokee Country Club.
Survivors other than his wife are two daughters, Nancy Callahan of Franklin, N.C., and Lynn Ramage Dennison of Atlanta; a son, James B. Ramage Jr. of Atlanta; two sisters, Dorothy R. Thomas of Atlanta and Virginia R. Smith of Midlothian, Texas; and five grandchildren.
James Blakely Ramage, 82, of Atlanta, was a retired agency manager for Equitable Life Assurance Society and a civic leader.
The memorial service for Mr. Ramage, who died Sunday from complications of cancer at Piedmont Hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church. The body was cremated. H.M. Patterson & Son, Oglethorpe Hill, is in charge of arrangements
James Blakely "Jim" Ramage was a son of Sterling Combs and Marie Achsia Davis Ramage.
Mr. Ramage joined the Equitable Life Assurance Society after graduating from Georgia Tech and stayed with the company for the next 60 years, eventually rising to become an award-winning manager of the company's Atlanta office.
In 1966, he won the Gold President's Trophy, which signified the No. 1 agency of 176 agencies in the company then.
He was a past president of five professional organizations, served on the board of directors of two others and received two service awards from local and state associations. Until recently, Mr. Ramage, who enjoyed a competitive game of bridge or golf, was still going into the Buckhead office several times a week, helping some of his longtime clients, said Jim Stewart of Marietta, operations manager for Equitable Life Assurance Society.
Mr. Ramage was a past president of the Georgia Easter Seal Society and Buckhead Civitan Club and was a board member of the Salvation Army and the March of Dimes.
During World War II, he was a U.S. Army commandant in the Communication Zone Headquarters in North African, Mediterranean and European Theaters. He retired as a colonel in the Army Reserves, according to his wife, Charlotte Galbraith Ramage of Atlanta.
"He was very much involved in the Atlanta community and was a good friend of Equitable Life and a good friend of the insurance industry," said Mr. Stewart. Born in Cleburne, Texas, Mr. Ramage came to Atlanta as a child.
While a student at Georgia Tech, the industrial management major helped lead the cheers for the football team and was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa honorary fraternity for a distinguished academic and leadership record.
Since graduating in 1937, Mr. Ramage, as class representative, helped organize class reunions held every five years.
In October, he was among those recruiting volunteers and organizing the celebration for his 60-year class reunion, according to Beth Price of Chamblee, director of programming for the Georgia Tech Alumni Association. He was the 1970-71 president of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association.
He was a member of the Capital City Club and a past chairman of the Phoenix Society, which holds debutante balls at Cherokee Country Club.
Survivors other than his wife are two daughters, Nancy Callahan of Franklin, N.C., and Lynn Ramage Dennison of Atlanta; a son, James B. Ramage Jr. of Atlanta; two sisters, Dorothy R. Thomas of Atlanta and Virginia R. Smith of Midlothian, Texas; and five grandchildren.
The memorial service for Mr. Ramage, who died Sunday from complications of cancer at Piedmont Hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church. The body was cremated. H.M. Patterson & Son, Oglethorpe Hill, is in charge of arrangements
James Blakely "Jim" Ramage was a son of Sterling Combs and Marie Achsia Davis Ramage.
Mr. Ramage joined the Equitable Life Assurance Society after graduating from Georgia Tech and stayed with the company for the next 60 years, eventually rising to become an award-winning manager of the company's Atlanta office.
In 1966, he won the Gold President's Trophy, which signified the No. 1 agency of 176 agencies in the company then.
He was a past president of five professional organizations, served on the board of directors of two others and received two service awards from local and state associations. Until recently, Mr. Ramage, who enjoyed a competitive game of bridge or golf, was still going into the Buckhead office several times a week, helping some of his longtime clients, said Jim Stewart of Marietta, operations manager for Equitable Life Assurance Society.
Mr. Ramage was a past president of the Georgia Easter Seal Society and Buckhead Civitan Club and was a board member of the Salvation Army and the March of Dimes.
During World War II, he was a U.S. Army commandant in the Communication Zone Headquarters in North African, Mediterranean and European Theaters. He retired as a colonel in the Army Reserves, according to his wife, Charlotte Galbraith Ramage of Atlanta.
"He was very much involved in the Atlanta community and was a good friend of Equitable Life and a good friend of the insurance industry," said Mr. Stewart. Born in Cleburne, Texas, Mr. Ramage came to Atlanta as a child.
While a student at Georgia Tech, the industrial management major helped lead the cheers for the football team and was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa honorary fraternity for a distinguished academic and leadership record.
Since graduating in 1937, Mr. Ramage, as class representative, helped organize class reunions held every five years.
In October, he was among those recruiting volunteers and organizing the celebration for his 60-year class reunion, according to Beth Price of Chamblee, director of programming for the Georgia Tech Alumni Association. He was the 1970-71 president of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association.
He was a member of the Capital City Club and a past chairman of the Phoenix Society, which holds debutante balls at Cherokee Country Club.
Survivors other than his wife are two daughters, Nancy Callahan of Franklin, N.C., and Lynn Ramage Dennison of Atlanta; a son, James B. Ramage Jr. of Atlanta; two sisters, Dorothy R. Thomas of Atlanta and Virginia R. Smith of Midlothian, Texas; and five grandchildren.
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