Ramez McCarus Sr. was laid to rest in his hometown of Charleston, WV on Saturday, November 1, 2014 at the South Charleston Sunset Memorial Park. Ramez McCarus was the most gentle of men. He was a frequent attender at the Kfeirian Reunion. Music was one of his passions and even earlier this year he performed in four different bands. He will be greatly missed by his family.

Ramez A. McCarus Sr., 89, of Baltimore, Md., fell asleep in the Lord on Oct. 22, 2014. He was born in Charleston, graduated from Charleston High School, attended the University of Michigan and moved to Maryland in 1992.

He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the U.S. Navy during the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters, D-Day invasion, the invasion of Toulon in southern France and the invasion of Okinawa. He personally knocked down kamikazes from the Destroyer USS Jeffers 621.