Raymon T. Kaplan

1935 - 2018

April 20, 1935 - March 22, 2018 Dr. Raymon Kaplan, MD, passed away peacefully from complications of Alzheimer's disease in his home in the evening of Thursday, March 22, 2018 at the age of 82. Born in New York City, New York, Raymon and his family soon moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When Raymon was 13, his family moved again to Los Angeles where he spent the remainder of his life. Raymon graduated from John Marshall High School in Los Angeles, then from UCLA as an undergraduate, and then from one of the first UCLA Medical School classes where he earned his MD. While in his rotating internship at Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital (now VA West Los Angeles Medical Center), Raymon was drafted into the Army as a physician, where he found psychiatry as his calling. Returning from the Army, Raymon entered into a three-year residency at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, where he met and fell in love with his wife, Eunice. Raymon's career as a psychiatrist spanned 45 years, mostly out of his office in Marina Del Rey. He was proud to be a clinical professor of psychiatry at the USC Medical School for many of those years. His dedication to bringing comfort and mental health to his patients was evidenced by his many years of service, and the outpouring of thanks and devotion from his patients when his practiced closed in 2012. Raymon was very proud of his Jewish heritage. He was a member of the congregations at Kenesseth Israel in Hollywood while his father was the Rabbi, then at the UCLA Hillel. He was proud to be able to instill the same Jewish values unto his children. Raymon enjoyed sharing the comforts of beautiful scenery and classical music. He preferred to exercise by jogging or bicycling by the beach, in the deserts of Palm Springs or in the lovely wooded landscape of Victoria, British Columbia. He was a regular supporter of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and KUSC. Raymon's primary source of happiness was his family. He was devoted to his wife of 50 years Eunice, daughter Deborah, son Steven, grandaughter Illaria, and grandsons Eneas, Ethan, and Zachary. The family requests that donations in Raymon's name be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America (www.alzfdn.org) or KUSC (http://donate.kusc.org/).