Deceased Persons

A USAF MC-130H Combat Talon cargo aircraft crashed into a mountainside Aug 7, 2002, about 15 miles south of San Juan, Puerto Rico. All 10 military personnel on board were killed, according to U.S. Southern Command. The special operations aircraft went down in heavy fog and rain during a nighttime training flight from NAS Roosevelt … Read more

From a contemporary press report: Carl Edward Doughman, 83, a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and Arlington community volunteer, died of respiratory failure August 2, 2003, at Virginia Hospital Center-Arlington. He had diabetes and had suffered a stroke. Colonel Doughman, a resident of Arlington, Virginia, retired from the Air Force in 1970 after 28 years … Read more

The body of former Ambassador Larry Lawrence was removed from Arlington National Cemetery today, a Pentagon spokesman said. Spokesman Kenneth Bacon told reporters the body was removed “early today,” when he was queried about it at a Pentagon briefing. Bacon, asked whether the body had been moved to California, said the movement was being handled … Read more

From a contemporary press report Charles Jerome Avery, Colonel, United States Air Force (retired) died on Saturday, February 3, 2001 at the V.A. Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Colonel Avery was born August 11, 1923 at Fort Ringgold, Texas, the son of Army Medical Officer Samuel D. Avery of the 12th Calvary and Rita Johansen … Read more

From contemporary press reports: Nov 1, 1995:  Bone and teeth fragments unearthed 2 years ago at the crash site of an USAF gunship shot down over Laos in 1970 left some relatives unconvinced that their loved ones died. Now, the families of the 10 servicemen that the govt presumes were killed are demanding more tests … Read more

The second wife of William Vaulx Carter, and the mother of William Harding Carter II, she was born on September 1, 1896 and died on November 13, 1971. She is buried among other family members in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery. CARTER, MARGARET B, WIDOW OF WILLIAM V DATE OF BIRTH: 09/01/1896 DATE OF DEATH: 11/13/1971 BURIED … Read more

U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) News Release IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 1011-07 August 16, 2007 DoD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the death of five soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.  They died August 14, 2007, in Al Taqqadum, Iraq, of injuries suffered … Read more

Wayne Leslie Lehto April 11, 1943 – January 25, 2006 Durham, North Carolina Visitation: 7-9 p.m. January 28, 2006 at Hudson Funeral Home, Durham Funeral Service: 3:00 p.m. January 29, 2006 at Bayleaf Baptist Church, Raleigh North Carolina Graveside Service: 3:00 p.m. February 22, 2006 at Arlington National  Cemetery Interment: Arlington National Cemetery He is … Read more

Contemporary press reports: March 1985 Mar 30, 1985: Vice President Bush called Major Arthur D. Nicholson Jr. “an outstanding officer murdered in the line of duty,” honoring him during a brief ceremony yesterday marking the return of the body of the Army officer slain by a Soviet guard in East Germany. “We can only hope that … Read more

Richard Frederick Bell, 69, of Beaufort, died Thursday, November 23, 2006. A Mass of Christian burial will be Monday in Alexandria, Virginia, with burial in Arlington National Cemetery at 2:45 p.m. December 20, 2006. Colonel Bell graduated from Beaufort High School and received his undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina and his master’s … Read more

Born at Fort Sidney, Nebraska, January 9, 1880, the son of Calvin DeWitt, and the brother of Calvin DeWitt, Jr. and Wallace DeWitt, he attended Princeton before gaining a regular Army commission in 1898. A veteran of the Philippine Insurrection and Mexican Border service, he came to France in World War I as Quartermaster, 42nd (Rainbow) Division. In January 1918, … Read more

James Francis Miley, 80, an Army Corps of Engineers Colonel who retired in 1977 and became general services manager of Potomac Electric Power Co. before retiring again in 1988, died May 16, 2007, at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital. He had respiratory failure. Colonel Miley was a native of Des Moines and graduated in 1953 from … Read more

From a contemporary press report Robert G. Goold, a retired Air Force Colonel, died on April 17, 2000. During Colonel Goold’s Air Force career he participated in three wars. During World War II, he was stationed in the India, China and Burma Theatres. He participated in the first bombing raid over Tokyo. Among the medals … Read more

(of Sp/4 Keith Allen Campbell) You ran before you walked. You sang before you talked. You laughed before you cried. Others lived because you died. Esther B. (Campbell) Gates Read our general and most popular articles Phallosan Forte Anaboloxan Huusk Messer Hanfosan Nutra Digest SWISS FX Ketogen Tropfen Slimymed Hondrostrong Slim XR Elixfett Reduslim Medioxil 24 … Read more

Courtesy of the United States Air Force MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH V. DILLON Died August 1, 1971 Brigadier General Joseph V. Dillon, the Air Provost Marshal of the U.S. Air Force, served in Army military police and provost marshal positions throughout World War II, and prior to his present assignment was U.S. Army Provost Marshal of … Read more

George W. Bradley of New York Appointed from New York, Captain, Assistant Quartermaster of Volunteers, 26 November 1862 to 14 November 1865 Lieutenant Colonel, Quartermaster, 17 November 1864 to 18 October 1866 Captain, Assistant Quartermaster, United States Army, 4 Novembeer 1865 Breveted Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, 13 March 1865, for faithful … Read more

LEHR, WAYNE RENAU Wayne Renau Lehr died on July 16, 2001. Colonel Lehr was born in 1936 and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, and later pursued his dream of becoming a fighter pilot by joining the United States Air Force. In his over 25 years in … Read more

As I walk down the green, sloping hills of Virginia, On the hallowed grounds, of our heroes from war; In the fields that were home, to an old southern general, Rest American soldiers, in the peace they died for. CHORUS: They gave their lives for our freedom, in Americas name. Our heroes are gone, but … Read more

Benjamin M. Walker Suffolk, Massachusetts Born 1923 Captain, U.S. Army Service Number O-59054 Killed in Action Died May 26, 1951 in Korea Captain Walker was a member of the 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in South Korea on May 26, 1951. WALKER, BENJAMIN M CAPT … Read more

ANDRE, CHARLES H. First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Home: Detroit, Michigan 305th Machine-Gun Battalion, 77th Division, A.E.F. Date of Action: October 14 – 15, 1918 General Orders 71, W.D., 1919 Citation: The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles H. Andre, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Juvin, France, October 14 … Read more

Gordon Graham Heiner of Washington, D.C. Appointed from Pennsylvania, Cadet, United States Military Academy, 15 June 1889 (7) Second Lieuenant, 2nd U. S. Artillery, 12 June 1893 Transferred to the 4th U. S. Artillery, 29 November 1893 First Lieutenant, 2 March 1899 Artillery Corps, 2 February 1901 Captain, 1 July 1901 NOTE: His son, Gordon Graham … Read more

Cornelius R. Lape, born November 25, 1843, West Sand Lake, Rensselaer, New York, and second cousin to Philip and Samuel Lape, joined the 111th NYRegiment., Co. D, at age 18. He was the son of Cornelius and Sarah Rysdorph Lape, descendants of Thomas Lape and Maria Batz. Cornelius enlisted 14 March 1864 at Galen, Wayne, … Read more

Army secretary says no burial plots were exchanged for political donations “It’s “just not true” that plots at Arlington National Cemetery were handed out in exchange for political contributions, Army Secretary Togo West said Thursday. Still, some congressional Republicans have met the controversy with demands for investigations and for the list of names of those … Read more

John E. Merriman, 84, a retired Air Force Colonel who served in two wars and worked on the Apollo spaceflight missions, died of complications of emphysema December 6, 2006, at Inova Alexandria Hospital. He lived in Alexandria, Virginia. Colonel Merriman, a native of Tekoa, Washington, attended Gonzaga University before joining the Army Air Forces early … Read more

The practice of having the charge of a deceased military officer led in the funeral procession is a survival of an ancient custom of sacrificing a horse at the burial of a warrior. Generally the horse was hooded, sheathed in a cloth or armored covering and bore a saddle with the stirrups inverted and a … Read more

The widow of Larry Lawrence, a Democratic contributor who lied about military service and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, condemned on Thursday charges she had an affair with President Bill Clinton as “outrageous and scandalous lies.” Shelia Davis Lawrence of San Diego said in a statement issued here she would pursue “every legal action … Read more

From a Press Report: January 18, 2002: Private services were held in San Francisco yesterday for Bay Area architect Denis Beatty. Mr. Beatty, 82, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in September, died at his home in San Francisco on Monday. He enlisted in the Navy after Pearl Harbor. He became an ensign in April … Read more

Born at El Paso, Texas, December 6, 1943, he served for two years in the United States Marine Corps and then with the United States Army in Vietnam during the war there. During his military service he was the recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star with one Oak Leaf Cluster. Following his … Read more

While this company is not affiliated with either the United States Government or this website, we have had an opportunity to review their production work and have found it to be both high in quality and very tastefully done. We therefore recommend them to you. Funeral Videos – Arlington, Virginia Telephone:  571-721-0021 Cell Phone: 301-461-2104 Click Here … Read more

Courtesy of the United States Military Academy: 16985 RAWERS, JAMES WALTHER 14 April 1927-15 March 1987 Interment: Arlington National Cemetery The summer of 1945 was not one’s typical summer at West Point. Victory in Europe had already been achieved and the war in the Pacific was to come to an unexpectedly early end in August. … Read more

Ernest Leroy Burdge Jr., 90, an Air Force pilot and Defense Department intelligence analyst, died of complications of prostate cancer August 31, 2006, at Howard County General Hospital. He lived in Columbia, Maryland. Burdge, a native of Minneapolis, served in the Army Air Forces during World War II, flying 30 missions in a B-17 bomber … Read more

Claude R. Kinsey Jr., 86, a “flying sergeant” who became one of the earliest U.S. aces of  World War II and who escaped a prisoner-of-war camp by walking 100 miles through Italy across German lines, died February 4, 2006 of cancer in Springfield, Virignia. Lieutenant Colonel Kinsey, who entered the Army Air Forces as an … Read more

Norman David Mayer (March 31, 1916 – December 9, 1982) was an anti-nuclear weapons activist who was shot and killed by the United States Park Police after threatening to blow up the Washington Monument. Mayer was born in El Paso, Texas to Jesse and Margott Mayer. After his father died two years later, his penniless … Read more

December 23, 1923 – Miss Eleanor Charlton one of the oldest nurses in the Post-Graduate Hospital, died there on Friday afternoon.  She was one of the first graduates of the school. Miss Charlton was a war nurse during the Spanish-American War and during the World War she gave her time to Red Cross World. The … Read more

Full text of “Address of President Wilson Accepting the Monument in Memory of the Confederate Dead at Arlington National Cemetery” ADDRESS Mr. Chairman, Mrs. McLaurin Stevens, Ladies and Gentlemen: I assure you that I am profoundly aware of the solemn significance of the thing that has now taken place. The Daughters of the Confederacy have … Read more

Robert W. Shaw, 71, a retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel who served in Lebanon, the Dominican Republic and Vietnam, died March 6, 2007, at Inova Fairfax Hospital of complications of diabetes. The Annandale resident collapsed after his morning walk. Colonel Shaw was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, and grew up in nearby Medford. At Tufts University, he … Read more

Henry Prarr Perrine, Jr. was born in New Jersey on 22 July 1891.  He graduated from the United States Military Academy in the class of 1913. He died on 20 December 1953 in Pennsylvania and was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery, He was the son of Henry Pratt Perrine,Captain, United States Army. … Read more

RAY S. BAXTER DIES IN NAVAL HOSPITAL Former Atlanta Musician To be Buried Today ATLANTA, Georgia, May 16, 1939 – Ray Stanley Baxter, formerly a well-known Atlanta musician died Saturday at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, friends here were notified yesterday. A World War veteran, Baxter served overseas with the 61st Infantry and … Read more

Courtesy of his classmates, United States Military Academy: John Roy Ross, Jr. No. 13298  •  12 February 1918 – 29 February 1992 Died in Reston, Virginia, Virginia, aged 74 years Interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia John Roy Ross, Jr.  always had soldiering in his blood. His father, from a small town in Oregon, was … Read more

Born at Chicago, Illinois, January 23, 1875, he was a student at Beloit College Academy, 1891-93 and 1893-94; Stanford University, 1894-96; LLB, University of Iowa, 1897; admitted to the Iowa Bar, 1897 and was in general practice of law, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 1897-1902; and in Des Moines, 1902-16. He served as Captain, Infantry, Iowa, National … Read more

From a contemporary press report: Walter Jones Stewart II, 90, a retired Navy captain who was also a facility space administrator at the Goddard Space Flight Center, died of congestive heart failure September 19, 1998 at Arlington Hospital. He lived in Annandale. Captain Stewart was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. His family moved to Washington … Read more

COLONEL CLARENCE B. ROSS Labor Liaison Officer Had Been Professor at Fordham WASHINGTON, December 29, 1934 – Funeral services for Colonel Clarence B. Ross, who died on October 12 at Fort Mills, Philippine Islands, were held today in Arlington National Cemetery.  He went to the Philippines in June 1932. Born in Connecticut on April 17, … Read more

From a contemporary press report: George Towner Sr., a retired Vice Admiral who headed Naval District Northwest was a leader who could follow. The tall, quiet Montanan did what was needed. His dignity and ability to see the big picture enhanced whatever he did, from commanding ships in World War II military campaigns to stuffing … Read more

United States Army Pvt. Waldmeyer never owned slaves; he died in struggle to set them free In a trip to Washington, D.C., this spring, I stopped at Arlington National Cemetery to spend a few quiet moments with my family’s apology for slavery. He’s buried in plot No. 8917, high on the hill above the Tomb … Read more

Chapter One – The Arrival Chapter Two – The Greetings And Presentations Chapter Three – The Unveiling Chapter Four – The Social Gathering And Epilogue Read our general and most popular articles Phallosan Forte Anaboloxan Huusk Messer Hanfosan Nutra Digest SWISS FX Ketogen Tropfen Slimymed Hondrostrong Slim XR Elixfett Reduslim Medioxil 24 Hondrox Prima Kapseln … Read more

IN HONOR OF LAWRENCE B. RYAN Larry Ryan was killed in Vietnam on June 30, 1968. On July 11, 1968, his funeral Mass was said in Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and his body buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Exactly 30 years later, on July 11, 1998, fifteen Delta Phi Epsilon brothers … Read more

Marvin T. Runyon (September 16 1924–May 3 2004) was an American business executive. After a long career as a manufacturing executive at Ford Motor Company, he retired, then was the U.S. head of Nissan for several years. He later served as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and as U.S. Postmaster General. He was a … Read more

From a contemporary press report: Ida Louise Schaefer Gerstner Yackow, 78, a former nurse who was a volunteer with the American Heart Association and with the Arlington Ladies, who assist at funerals at Arlington Cemetery, died of colon cancer July 30, 1998 at her home in Alexandria, Virginia. She was a native of Bonnot’s Mill, … Read more

ROGER M. CALLOWAY WASHINGTON, December 6, 1943 – Roger M. Calloway, Assistant Reading Clerk of the House of Representatives, formerly of Sheridan, Wyoming, died here Saturday after a long illness at the age of 47. Mr. Calloway was in the banking business in Wyoming until 1929, when he came East to enter Government service.  At … Read more

A giant of a man and a cornerstone of our Society was taken from us when Brigadier General Royal Reynolds, Jr. passed away in his sleep on November 24, five weeks after his 93rd birthday. A graduate of the West Point Class of 1933, Roy Reynolds was the second generation of his family to have … Read more

In the delicate green matrix of Arlington National Cemetery, interspersed with the graves of long-dead veterans, are spaces reserved for their next of kin. Here, trees have had time to spread and arriving caskets may disturb soil webbed by the roots of one of the cemetery’s leafy sentinels. Last year, about 4,100 graves were dug, … Read more

From a contemporary press report: Captain John Dachos, 60, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, who retired from the Navy in 1988 after 30 years of service, died of kidney cancer December 18, 1999 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. During his career, Captain Dachos served in Japan, the Mediterranean, Italy and Vietnam. Among the ships … Read more

Courtesy of the United States Air Force MAJOR GENERAL DUDLEY D. HALE Retired February 1958, Died October. 2, 1989 Dudley Durward Hale was burn in Perry, Missouri, in 1904. He graduated from high school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1922, and from the University of Chattanooga in 1926. Appointed a Flying Cadet in February 1928, General … Read more