Obit of Korpal, Eugene S. - Comanche County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 18 Sep 2005 Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Lawton Constitution 1 & 2 Jul 2005 Eugene S. Korpal Mass of Christian burial for retired Maj. Gen. Eugene S. Korpal, 73, Lawton, will be said at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Holy Family Catholic Church with the Rev. Philip Seeton, pastor, officiating. Wake service will be at 7 p.m. Monday at Becker Funeral Home Chapel. Gen. Korpal died Tuesday, June 28, 2005. Burial with military honors will be at Post Cemetery, Fort Sill. He was born in St. Louis on Sept. 1, 1931. He attended elementary and high schools in Vandalia, Mo. He graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1953 with a bachelor of science in general chemistry and was commissioned a second lieutenant of field artillery. He married Lily M. Alder in July 1954. His 34 years of military service included a wide range of assignments in troop-related, command and staff positions in Germany, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Hawaii and the continental United States. Troop-related and Command assignments include Battery and Battalion-level duties in Germany, Hawaii, Vietnam and Korea. He commanded B Battery, 593 FA, in Germany; A Battery 3/38 FA in Korea; and was Battalion S-3 and executive officer of the 3/13 FA in Hawaii and Vietnam. Later troop and command assignments included Assistant G3 (Plans), 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam and command of two battalions 1/29 FA 5th MECH DIV at Fort Carson, Colo., and 2/319 FA, 101st Airborne Division, in Vietnam. He later served as assistant division commander of the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii and as chief of the Joint Military Advisory Group in the Philippines. He served in the Field Artillery Branch Office of Personnel Operations in Washington, D.C., and as a staff officer in both Headquarters U.S. Army Pacific and Headquarters United States Army Europe. Other Washington staff assignments included director of Personnel, Force Development and Training; U.S. Army Materiel Command; and Deputy Inspector General of the Army for Investigations, Assistance, Training and Information Management. He and his wife served in Lawton/Fort Sill for more than nine years spanning four decades (mid 1950s to mid 1980s). Assignments included Student Officer, the School Command (now 30th Regiment), Target Acquisition Department, Director of Training, Deputy Assistant Commandant, Assistant Commandant and Commanding General of Fort Sill and Commandant of the Field Artillery School as his final assignment. Service schools attended were Field Artillery Basic, Battery Officer and Advanced courses; the Command and General Staff College; Armed Forces Staff College; and the Navy War College. Awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (with Oak Leaf Clusters), Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal (two awards), Meritorious Service Medal (two Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Commendation Medal (four Oak Leaf Clusters), Vietnamese Gallantry Cross and Philippine Legion of Honor. After retirement in 1987, he was employed by the Fort Sill National Bank as a vice president/loan officer, advisory director and director. Survivors include his wife; two daughters and sons-in-law, Teresa and Michael Weyand and Jeannie and Jack Byrnes; and four grandchildren: Matthew and Luke Weyand and Kevin and Jaclyn Byrnes. Memorial contributions may be made to Holy Family Catholic Church, 1010 NW 82nd, Lawton 73505 or to the Cleo Craig Memorial Cancer Foundation, 5002 SW Lee, Lawton 73505. Sympathy cards may be sent to the family at www.beckerfuneral.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html