OBIT: William H. POWELL, Jr., 1987, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  WILLIAM H. POWELL, JR.
  
    William H. Powell Jr., 83, of Alexandria, Va., died June 21, 1987,
  in Alexandria Hospital.
    Born in Fayetteville, N.C., Jan. 1, 1904, he was the son of the
  late Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Powell Sr.
    A retired Air Force major general and former chief medical officer
  at NATO headquarters in Europe, Powell graduated from Wake Forest
  College and received a medical degree at the Medical College of
  Virginia in 1927.  He was commissioned in the Army Medical Corps in
  1929.
    He served in various capacities in both the Army and Air Force.  In
  1951 he was named surgeon of U.S. Air Forces in Europe at Wiesbaden,
  West Germany.
    He retired in 1960.  He was a member of the Radiological Society of
  America and Grace Reformed Church, Washington.
    Surviving are his widow, Harriet (Stanton) Powell, a native of
  Grantsville, Md.; and one sister, Mrs. Louise Varnedoe, Fayetteville.
    Services were conducted Wednesday in the Fort Meyer Chapel.  Full
  graveside military rites and interment was in Arlington National
  Cemetery.
  
  The Republic, July 2, 1987
  
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