Paul Raines passed away this morning.

We spoke to Claudia this afternoon. She is going to a funeral home close to their home in Southlake Texas tomorrow to arrange the wake and service. Tentative plans are for the wake to be held on Thursday and the service Friday, assuming the church is available. I will know more tomorrow, but we wanted to get a message out now with the preliminary information.

Paul was with KSA for ten years, working in the US and Central / South America. He left KSA for L.L. Bean before going to The Home Depot where he started in Store Operations and, after several promotions, became the SVP of Stores. He left The Home Depot to become COO, and then CEO of GameStop.

He and Claudia have two children. Victoria graduated from Georgia Tech two years ago and Julian is currently enrolled at Tech.

Addendum from Butch Price on Paul’s Services

A wake will be held on Friday, March 9th from 6 to 8 pm with a Rosary at 7 pm.

His mass will be held on Saturday at 10 am.

These will be held at:

Good Shepherd Catholic Community Church
1000 Tinker Rd.
Colleyville, TX  76034

Claudia’s email is losraines@aol.com; her phone is 404-863-2252.  Her mailing address was distributed via email to our mailing list.  If you did not receive it and wish to contact Claudia by mail, click here to ask Butch Price for it.  We have not included it here for privacy reasons.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested donations in Paul’s memory be made to:

The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke

Donations can be made online at https://tischbraintumorcenter.duke.edu/ or make checks payable to “Tisch Brain Tumor Center” and send them to:

The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center
DUMC
Box 3624
Durham, NC  27710

Best regards,

Butch

Addendum from Claudia on Dallas News Article

The Dallas paper published a nice article on Paul. You can see it online at
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/2018/03/05/former-gamestop-ceo-paul-raines-dies-after-a-battle-with-cancer