Gretchen Rau

1939 - 2006  (66 years)

• Name	Gretchen Rau
  Born	6 Jul 1939	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	29 Mar 2006	New York, USA   [1]
  Buried	Y  [2]
  Person ID	I288299	Suedpfalz
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	John Eblen Rau,   b. 30 Sep 1898, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 0Nov 1981, Louisiana, USA  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Henrietta Anne Sholars
  Family ID	F99010	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Unknown Pattison
  Children	1. Pattison   2. Pattison   3. Pattison   4. Pattison
  Last Modified	1 May 2018
  Family ID	F99012	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Unknown Menard
  Children	1. Menard
  Last Modified	1 May 2018
  Family ID	F99011	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S888] Social Security Death Index 1935 - Current, (www.ancestry.com). Name: Gretchen R. Menard Last Residence: 11768 Northport, Suffolk, New York BORN: 6 Jul 1939 Died: 29 Mar 2006 State (Year) SSN issued: Louisiana (1963) [S927] Obituary. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0711956/ The Times-Picayune obit... Gretchen Rau, 66, Oscar winner Thursday, April 06, 2006 >From staff reports http://www.nola.com/obituaries/t-p/index.ssf?/base/obits-33/1144308675230500.xml Gretchen Rau, a New Orleans-born set decorator who won an Oscar last month for her work on "Memoirs of a Geisha," died Wednesday of a brain tumor at her Northport, N.Y., home. She was 66. Ms. Rau, who graduated from Louise S. McGehee School in 1957, was too ill to accept the statuette in person, said her son, George Pattison, who attended the Academy Awards ceremony and gave the Oscar to her at her Long Island home two days later. She had been nominated for an Academy Award two years ago for "The Last Samurai." She had no formal training in her craft, her son said, but after moving to New York City in 1966, she learned about the business from friends who were involved in movie and television productions. Ms. Rau's first professional work, in 1977, was on commercials and in television shows, he said. Four years later, she got her first major movie job on Louis Malle's "Atlantic City." During the next quarter-century, Ms. Rau was the set decorator for more than 30 films, including "Crocodile Dundee," "A River Runs Through It," "Six Degrees of Separation," "Nobody's Fool," "The Crucible," "The Human Stain" and "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou." Survivors include three sons, George P. Pattison II, A. Taylor Pattison III and Jean-Paul Menard, all of Northport; two daughters, Anne M. Pattison of London and Stephanie C. Pattison of West Palm Beach, Fla.; a brother, Forrest Rau; a sister, Roli R. Deeves; and four grandchildren. The funeral will be private.