Mr. Thomas Mactyeire Raysor Jr.

THOMAS MACTYEIRE RAYSOR '34cl, J.D. '37, died May 15 in Brandon, Fla.He was retired partner in the Chevy Chase, Md., law firm of Raysor, Barbour & Iverson, where he practiced corporate hospital and estate-trust law for a half-century.He was also general counsel of several healthcare institutions, including Sibley Memorial Hospital and the Healthcare Council of the National Capital Area.He had been president and trustee of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia and a director of the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys.In World War II he served as a civilian lawyer for the Army Corps of Engineers and the Manhattan Project.He leaves his second wife, Alice, a daughter, J. Ingrid, and a son, Thomas.

Thomas M. Raysor, 89, a lawyer who served as general counsel of Washington area hospitals and health-care organizations before retiring from the Chevy Chase firm Raysor, Barbour & Iverson in 1995, died of a heart ailment May 15 at a hospital in Brandon, Fla.

Mr. Raysor worked for Raysor, Barbour & Iverson and its predecessor firms for about 50 years, almost exclusively as a corporate hospital and estate trust lawyer.During his career with the firms, he served for more than three decades as general counsel of Sibley Memorial Hospital, the Methodist Home of D.C., the Healthcare Council of the National Capital Area and the Masonic and Eastern Star Home of D.C.

He was past president and trustee of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, past director of the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys of the American Hospital Association and a former delegate to the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Raysor, who moved to Sun City Center, Fla., in 1995, was born in San Antonio.He was raised in Washington and graduated from Central High School.He was a graduate of Harvard University and a 1937 graduate of its law school.

He entered the Army in 1942 but was rejected from service because of poor vision in his left eye.He was hired as a civilian lawyer for the Army Corps of Engineers, which sent him to Edmonton to work on legal issues involving the Alaska Highway and construction of oil pipelines across the MacKenzie Mountain Range.

In 1944, he was transferred to the legal office of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where he worked until the end of World War II.

He was a Mason and past member and trustee of Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church in Washington.

...
Survivors include his wife, Alice B. Raysor of Sun City Center; and two children from his first marriage, Thomas M. Raysor Jr. of Columbia and J. Ingrid Raysor of Houston.