Burial in New York
Ritchie is interred alongside his brother "Dick" and other family members in the Temple Hill Cemetery in Geneseo, New York. He was Episcopalian and Republican. At the burial service, one of Ritchie’s relatives from a Democratic background, W. Stuart Symington, a grandson of former U.S. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, called him a "Tory."
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