CAFFREY, Ronald Janss passed away June 29, 2018. He was born March 16, 1928 in New York City to Mildred Anna Janss, daughter of Edwin W. Janss, a descendant of Anaca Janss one of the early Dutch settlers of Manhattan and Anna Stewart also a long-time Manhattan family; and John Parker Caffrey, one of eleven children of Scotch-Irish family of farmers in Mount Hope Kansas. John and Mildred met in New York City upon John’s release from the Navy as a Lt. JG after serving in the armed guard of freighters in the First World War. He attended Trinity School, a now 300-year-old Episcopal school and graduated as class Valedictorian in May of 1945. He received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy but elected to attend Yale University on a partial scholarship augmented by a bursary job. He received dual degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business Administration and a regular army appointment after being named a distinguished graduate from the ROTC. He graduated in February of 1949 as part of the wartime class of 1948. Upon graduation, he was called into the Army but obtained a 60 day deferment to marry Suzanne Westermann of New York City. He joined the New York National Guard, 105th Field Artillery Bn. 42nd Division, served 8 years and was discharged as Captain, Headquarters Battery Commander. He subsequently joined then Johnson Service Company (now Johnson Controls Inc.) as a sales engineer in New York City in 1949, the start of a 41-year career including Branch Manager in New York, Regional Manager in Dallas and Regional Manager in Chicago followed by 20 years as V.P. of Marketing for the Controls Group of Johnson Controls and President of the in-house Advertising Agency. Ron is survived by his beloved wife of 40 years, Kathleen Caffrey; son, Ronald J. Caffrey II with Kathleen; daughters, Carol Lyn Buchta and Karen Sue Weiss with Suzanne, as well as seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. A Memorial Service for Ronald will be 10:30 am, Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at the Anderson McQueen Family Tribute Center North East. A Gathering of family and friend will be at 10 am.