Albert Amis Rayle Jr.

Dr. Albert Amis Rayle, Jr. age 95, died peacefully on Tuesday, August 16, at his home in Atlanta, GA, surrounded by his wife and children. Albert was born in Athens, GA, on January 15, 1921, to May Smith Rayle and Albert Amis Rayle, Sr. After his family moved to Atlanta in 1930, Albert attended S. M. Inman Middle School, O’Keefe Junior High School, and graduated from Boys’ High School in 1938. At Boys’ High, Albert excelled in football and track, served as president of his senior class, and was awarded the AJC Journal Cup for best all-round student. In recognition of his scholastic and leadership achievements, he was awarded a four-year academic scholarship to Columbia College in New York City.

Graduating from Columbia with the Class of 1942, Albert joined the Navy V12 program in 1941 and was admitted to Emory University Medical School, graduating in 1944. After graduation and an internship in a naval hospital in Portsmouth, VA, Albert was assigned to a destroyer and then transferred to a camouflaged hospital ship in the Pacific Ocean. V. J. Day was announced while he was en route to Japan.

After WWII, Albert was a Resident Fellow, Radiology at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, where he met Margaret Davis Holman, Medical Artist at the Clinic. They were married December 17, 1949, and shortly afterwards moved to Atlanta where Albert joined his father in private practice and was also on the teaching staff at Emory University and Grady Hospital. Along with managing several private offices, Albert started the radiological departments at five Atlanta-area hospitals and served on staff at the Georgia Tech Infirmary for 32 years.

Albert was proud to be a member of First Presbyterian Church and later Northside Methodist Church; a charter member of the Cherokee Town and Country Club; active with the Medical Association of Atlanta, Medical Association of Georgia, and the American Medical Association; and co-chair of the 1964 polio drive in Metropolitan Atlanta. After retirement, he donated much of his radiological and office equipment to the Good Samaritan Center in downtown Atlanta and volunteered his professional services there for years.

Albert is survived by his devoted wife of sixty six years, Margaret; children Peggy and John Hines of Atlanta, Bert and Betsy Rayle of Dallas, Texas, and Tricia and Wilson DuBose of Madison; and grandchildren Hale Hines of Los Angeles, California, Albert and Megan Rayle of Denver, Colorado, Elizabeth Rayle of New York, New York, Charles DuBose of Madison, Georgia, Margaret DuBose of Columbia, South Carolina, and Frank DuBose of Cambridge, Massachusetts. His family remembers him as a loving husband and father who was always a gentleman, led by example, and showed unfaltering patience and kindness to everyone. Preceding him in death were his sister, Alice Sidbury, brother, Robert Rayle, and parents, May and Albert Rayle, Sr.

A memorial service will be held in the Chapel at Northside United Methodist Church, 2799 Northside Drive, NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30305, on Saturday, August 20th at 11 :00 am with a church reception following. For anyone wishing to remember Albert Rayle, in lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Good Samaritan Health Center, 1015 Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30318. Online donations: www.goodsamatlanta.org/donate.