Person:Richard Garnitz (1)

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Richard Garnitz
b.11 Feb 1921 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
d.30 Oct 2005 Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland, USA
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m. 29 Jun 1919
  1. Richard Garnitz1921 - 2005
  2. Albert Eugene Garnitz1924 - 2009
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m. 26 Jun 1946
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Name Richard Garnitz
Gender Male
Birth[1] 11 Feb 1921 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Census[3] 11 Apr 1930 South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, USA
Marriage 26 Jun 1946 New York City, New York, United Statesto Sydelle Finkelstein
Death[2] 30 Oct 2005 Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland, USA
Burial? 2 Nov 2005 Parklawn Memorial Park and Menorah Gardens, Rockville, Maryland, USAVeirs Mill Road

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Richard Garnitz - Commerce Official </b> Richard Garnitz, 84, retired director of export marketing assistance with the Department of Commerce, died of a stroke Oct. 30 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. He was a Silver Spring resident.

Mr. Garnitz worked for the Commerce Department from 1962 until he retired in 1981. He then started a consulting firm and taught at the college and professional level until his death.

He was born in Chicago and grew up in South Bend, Ind. He graduated from Ohio State University and attended Columbia Law School. He also graduated from the State Department's school of advanced international economics.

During World War II, he served in the Army medical services in the United States. After the war, he worked at his family's furniture company in Indiana until 1962, when he moved to Washington as assistant director of the Commerce Department's trade missions program. In 1966, he served in Tokyo as director of the embassy's trade center, and in 1969, he became a commercial attache at the embassy in Stockholm and director of the trade center there.

Returning to Washington in 1972, he was deputy director and then director of the Commerce Department's office of international marketing and in 1979 took his final government assignment.

He then formed Zucca and Garnitz International Trade Consultants, assisting foreign governments' and businesses' investments in U.S. markets. After 1985, he taught real estate continuing education courses and international trade basics at Montgomery College and the Professional Development Institute.

Mr. Garnitz was given the Commerce Department's outstanding achievement awards in 1966, 1973 and 1978 and its silver medal award for meritorious federal service in 1973.

Outside of work, he liked to golf, walk, read, attend theater and travel. He also enjoyed gourmet dining. He was a past president of his condominium building association at Leisure World.

Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Sydelle Garnitz of Silver Spring; two children, Daniel Garnitz of Germantown and Joan Harris of Bluemount, Va.; a brother; and a grandson.

References
  1. ↑ Illinois Birth Certificate
    certificate # 5899, 28 FEB 1921.
  2. ↑ Maryland Death Certificate.
  3. ↑ 1930 United States Federal Census
    South Bend, Ind. ED 16, Sheet 12B, Family # 277, Line 96-99.
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