Walter M. Ryan Jr. M.D.

Walter M. Ryan, Jr., MD

Walter M. Ryan, Jr., MD, Passed away Friday, April 12th at the Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. Born on Jan. 12, 1925 the oldest son of Walter M. Ryan, Sr and Marie Curry Ryan at Knickerbocker Hospital, New York. While he spent most of his life in the Jersey Shore Area, he went to Fordham Prep and Fordham University and then graduated from New York Medical College in 1954. In between his years of education at Fordham Walter went to Quarter Master School and joined the Navy. During the time he was a general surgical resident at Lenox Hill Hospital, Walter met the love of his life, Agnes O'Mara formerly of Spring Lake. After they were married in 1958, Walter and Agnes moved to Pittsburgh where Walter completed his fellowship in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. After completing the fellowship, Dr and Mrs. Ryan moved to the Jersey Shore where Dr. Ryan opened a private practice specializing in plastic and reconstructive surgery and joined the staff at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Monmouth Medical Center and Riverview Medical Center. He maintained his practice for more than forty years. During his lifetime, Dr. Ryan developed the Cleft Palate Unit at Monmouth Medical Center, and was a founding member of the American Society for Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery Association. Dr. Ryan was a former President of Monmouth County Medical Association. An avid golfer Dr. Ryan enjoyed his many years of golfing at Deal Golf and Country Club. During the winters he enjoyed skiing with his family at Okemo Mountain, Vermont, as well as summer dinners at Takanassee Beach Club with his family and many friends.

Dr. Ryan was predeceased by his parents and his brother, Regis William Ryan, O.P.. Walter was a devoted and loving husband, father and grandfather. Surviving is his wife, Agnes; five children, Mara Ryan Eckert and her husband Guy of Kennett Square, Pa., CC Ryan Shay and her husband Rodger, Miami, Fl, Walter M. Ryan, III, D.O. and his wife Jenni, Boca Raton, Fl, Megan Ryan MacMullin and her husband, Tom of Concord, NH and Siobhan Ryan of Milford, Ct.; his grandchildren, Emma and Sydney Eckert, Ryan, Morgan and David Shay, Matty, Liam and Brigit Ryan, Maggie, Katie and Thomas MacMullin and Aidan Ryan Quirk.

Memorial mass will be celebrated on Monday, April 29th, 10:30 AM, at St. Michael's RC Church, Ocean Avenue, Long Branch, followed by a reception. Contributions in memory of Dr. Ryan may be made to the Cleft Palate Unit at Monmouth Medical Center, 300 2nd Avenue, Long Branch, NJ 07740. For messages of condolence please visit Dr. Ryan's Book of Memories at www.woolleyboglioli.com.