Dr. Raymond I. Wintroub

96, passed away peacefully in his home in Rolling Hills on November 15.Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Raymond journeyed with his family to southern California, where he graduated from Hollywood High School. Shortly after the start of World War II he joined the Navy, and was assigned to a series of battleships, where he served as a radar specialist. A member of the "greatest generation," Raymond Wintroub saw duty in some of the hottest spots in the Pacific theatre, including Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and multiple tours of the Philippines, surviving kamikaze attacks and harrowing battles with enemy vessels. "Sometimes I didn't think we'd make it," he recalled later.Following the war, he returned to California and married Bertha Cohen, who would be his wife of 70 years. He took the opportunity provided by the G.I. Bill to attend college at USC and to pursue a medical degree there, which he earned in 1955. He was a highly respected pediatrician in the Palos Verdes area for over four decades, during the era when doctors still made house calls. He retired from medicine after more than forty years of practice.Dr. Raymond Wintroub is survived by his four children, Frances (Mark), Rachelle (Paul), Michael (Helene) and Seth (Kris), as well as numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and former patients by the thousands, who remember well the care he provided during their childhoods.Services will be private.