Mrs. Ord Preston
Wife of Washington Bank Head Was Member of Army Family
Washington, May 1, 1941. Mrs. Carolyn Murray Preston, member of a widely known Army family and wife of Ord Preston, President of Union Trust Company of Washington died yesterday at her home here after an illness of several months. She was 52 years old on Tuesday.
Mrs. Preston was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the daughter of the late Major General Arthur Murray, Chief of Coast Artillery. She was a sister of Brigadier General Maxwell Murray, former commander of the Washington Provisional Brigade, now on duty with the Hawaiian Department and of Mrs. Henry Conger Pratt, wife of the Major General Commanding the Second Army Corps.
Her maternal grandfather was Major General Renée Russy, a construction engineer in the Civil War period and one time commandant of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
Besides her husband to whom she was married in San Francisco in 1912, her brother and sister, Mrs. Preston leaves two sons, Lieutenant Ord Preston Jr., United States Marine Corps Reserve and Ensign Murray Preston, United States Naval Reserve, both now on active duty and two daughters, Mrs. William L. Ritchie, wife of Major Ritchie of the Staff of General Headquarters Air Force, Bolling Field and Mrs. Linton R. Massey of Charlottesville, Virginia.
Wife of Washington Bank Head Was Member of Army Family
Washington, May 1, 1941. Mrs. Carolyn Murray Preston, member of a widely known Army family and wife of Ord Preston, President of Union Trust Company of Washington died yesterday at her home here after an illness of several months. She was 52 years old on Tuesday.
Mrs. Preston was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the daughter of the late Major General Arthur Murray, Chief of Coast Artillery. She was a sister of Brigadier General Maxwell Murray, former commander of the Washington Provisional Brigade, now on duty with the Hawaiian Department and of Mrs. Henry Conger Pratt, wife of the Major General Commanding the Second Army Corps.
Her maternal grandfather was Major General Renée Russy, a construction engineer in the Civil War period and one time commandant of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
Besides her husband to whom she was married in San Francisco in 1912, her brother and sister, Mrs. Preston leaves two sons, Lieutenant Ord Preston Jr., United States Marine Corps Reserve and Ensign Murray Preston, United States Naval Reserve, both now on active duty and two daughters, Mrs. William L. Ritchie, wife of Major Ritchie of the Staff of General Headquarters Air Force, Bolling Field and Mrs. Linton R. Massey of Charlottesville, Virginia.
Mrs. Ord Preston
Wife of Washington Bank Head Was Member of Army Family
Washington, May 1, 1941. Mrs. Carolyn Murray Preston, member of a widely known Army family and wife of Ord Preston, President of Union Trust Company of Washington died yesterday at her home here after an illness of several months. She was 52 years old on Tuesday.
Mrs. Preston was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the daughter of the late Major General Arthur Murray, Chief of Coast Artillery. She was a sister of Brigadier General Maxwell Murray, former commander of the Washington Provisional Brigade, now on duty with the Hawaiian Department and of Mrs. Henry Conger Pratt, wife of the Major General Commanding the Second Army Corps.
Her maternal grandfather was Major General Renée Russy, a construction engineer in the Civil War period and one time commandant of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
Besides her husband to whom she was married in San Francisco in 1912, her brother and sister, Mrs. Preston leaves two sons, Lieutenant Ord Preston Jr., United States Marine Corps Reserve and Ensign Murray Preston, United States Naval Reserve, both now on active duty and two daughters, Mrs. William L. Ritchie, wife of Major Ritchie of the Staff of General Headquarters Air Force, Bolling Field and Mrs. Linton R. Massey of Charlottesville, Virginia.
Wife of Washington Bank Head Was Member of Army Family
Washington, May 1, 1941. Mrs. Carolyn Murray Preston, member of a widely known Army family and wife of Ord Preston, President of Union Trust Company of Washington died yesterday at her home here after an illness of several months. She was 52 years old on Tuesday.
Mrs. Preston was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the daughter of the late Major General Arthur Murray, Chief of Coast Artillery. She was a sister of Brigadier General Maxwell Murray, former commander of the Washington Provisional Brigade, now on duty with the Hawaiian Department and of Mrs. Henry Conger Pratt, wife of the Major General Commanding the Second Army Corps.
Her maternal grandfather was Major General Renée Russy, a construction engineer in the Civil War period and one time commandant of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
Besides her husband to whom she was married in San Francisco in 1912, her brother and sister, Mrs. Preston leaves two sons, Lieutenant Ord Preston Jr., United States Marine Corps Reserve and Ensign Murray Preston, United States Naval Reserve, both now on active duty and two daughters, Mrs. William L. Ritchie, wife of Major Ritchie of the Staff of General Headquarters Air Force, Bolling Field and Mrs. Linton R. Massey of Charlottesville, Virginia.
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