Lamar County GaArchives Obituaries.....Sappington, Homer Merrill November 28, 1983
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Adm. Sappington
     Graveside services for retired Navy Rear Adm. Merrill Sappington, 63, of 
McLean, Va., were at 9 a.m. Monday in the Arlington National Cemetery in 
Arlington, Va.
     Adm. Sappington, who retired in 1975 after 33 years in the Navy, died 
Monday of cancer.
     A former resident of Barnesville, Adm. Sappington was a veteran of World 
War II.  During his naval career, he served as a commanding officer of the USS 
E. A. Green, the USS Galveston, Destroyer Division 22, the Naval Ordinance 
Systems Command, and the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group.
     Adm. Sappington served in the office of the assistant secretary of Navy 
for research and development at the Las Cruces White Sands Proving Ground in 
Las Cruces, N. M. and with the Operations Test and Evaluation Force in 
Norfolk, Va.
     Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Kathryn Brill Sappington; sons, John 
Sappington and Jay Sappington, both of Ann Arbor, Mich.; daughter, Miss 
Barbara Sappington of Denver, Colo.; parents, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Homer 
Sappington of Barnesville; and a sister, Mrs. Althea Bergtholdt of Cape Cod, 
Mass.

Additional Comments:
Homer Merrill Sappington was born 30 September 1920 and was the son of Homer 
Arthur Sappington and Almeda "Allie" Elizabeth (Means) Sappington.  He married 
Kathryn Louise Brill on 14 August 1942 in Mobile, Alabama.  She died 14 
December 2002.

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