Donald Lortie Donald Laurent Lortie Sr . ( August 25 , 1930 – August 5 , 2006 ) was a Canadian professional wrestler best known as Mysterious Medic # 2 during his time as one half of the tag team The Masked Medics . Lortie was trained by his wrestling uncles , also tag team competitors , and began his in - ring career in 1954 and retired in 1968 after 14 years . Life and career . Born August 25 , 1930 in Montreal , Quebec , his uncles were Bob and Paul Lortie , a pair of grappling brothers who found success both in La Belle Province , and abroad . Two of his cousins , Andre and Paul ( who was sometimes known as Ray ) started before Donald , but their careers lasted only a short time . It was only natural that a young Donald Lortie would go into the grappling game as well . Like his cousins , he trained at Palais Nationale , starting at age 17 , and he became a talented Greco - Roman amateur . His uncles had a hand in his schooling as a professional . Coming in at 5 - foot - 11 , he explained in an interview in early 2002 how his physique developed . " I started at 180 in Montreal and I gradually as the years go by . . . I did a lot of workouts . I gained some weight . I go up to 190 , 200 , 220 . I stopped at 220 . " Paul Lortie was the biggest star , and regularly outshone his brother . Their native tongue allowed for foreign promoters to bill them from France . " The Famous French Champion . The hair - raising mauler . Devil - may - care . Do or Die . Just arrived back from S . Africa & Australia unbeaten , " read a 1937 English poster promoting a Paul Lortie versus Maurice Letchford bout in Southampton . " The Ever Thrilling French Ace . The Sensational Drop Kick Artist . The lad of a Thousand Thrills , " read another from 1936 in West Bromwich . Bob and Paul would later promote in and around Burlington , Vermont as well . Outside of Quebec , Donald Lortie ' s first big break came in Northern Ontario , hitting logging towns under various guises , including Pierre DeGlane , and he quickly learned that there was a little more money in being a heel . But it is his team with Gonzales that southern wrestling fans most remember . The two met in Texas , and became a smash hit in sterile uniforms in 1962 , when Gulf Coast promoter Rocky McGuire dubbed them the Masked Medics . They would team in the Gulf Coast territory of Louisiana - Alabama - Florida for many years , with success also coming in Texas and Tennessee . Lortie learned to love life in Louisiana . " Most of the places I liked were in the South , actually . New Orleans or Baton Rouge or Layfayette . All of those places . " Home would become a small town 40 miles from New Orleans . " I settled in the big name - - Saint Amant ! " he recalled with a hearty laugh , his French - Canadian accent flavoured with the distinctiveness of Cajun and Creole . Retirement . He recalled his decision to quit . " I was sitting in a hotel . . . I had three kids and I was tired and travelling and all that . I decided it ' s either my kids or wrestling . I think , well , that was it . The weekend came , and I went to the promoter and told him , ' Goodbye , I ' m finished , that ' s it . ' So I just quit . " ( Actually , he did work on rare occasions after that moment , and a serious shoulder finally finished him off in 1968 . ) Lortie worked as a longshoreman for Allied Chemical in Baton Rouge , and retired there after 17 years . " I think I made the right decision . It was rough . Either side you want to look at it , it was rough . " Personal life . Lortie is the nephew of Bob Lortie and Paul Lortie , two former professional wrestlers and a third uncle named Rene . His two cousins Andre and Paul are Rene ' s sons . Lortie was married to Claire Lambert Lortie for 49 years . The couple had two daughters , Lucette , Monique , two sons Jacques P Lortie of Ottawa , Canada , and Donald L . Lortie Jr . of Grangerville . His extended family includes granddaughters , Chevonne A . Molliere , Nicole Anderson , Richelle Anderson , Caitlyn E . Guice , Yvette E . Lortie and Samantha C . Kimrey ; great - grandchildren , Taylor Anderson , Mikaylah Molliere , Autumn and Malik Polar , Gabriel Mizell and Sebastian Malone ; stepgrandchildren , Harold L Kimrey III , Hollie K . Weston and Matthew W . Kimrey ; stepgreat - grandchildren , Melissa , Tyler , Sarah and Gavin Weston , and a host of sisters - in - law , brother - in - law , nieces and nephews . Death . Lortie died on August 5 , 2006 , August 5 of congestive heart failure , after a lengthy illness and a six - year battle with Alzheimer ' s . He died only 25 days before his 76th birthday .