Fairfax County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....HALL, Charles "Chuck" J. June 29, 1975 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Stephanie Mannion Wrightson swrightson51@gmail.com October 20, 2008, 10:48 pm The Washington Post, July 4, 1975, pg B12 Charles Hall, Personnel Chief for Army Branch. Charles J. Hall, 54, chief of the civilian personnel branch of the U.S. Army Military Traffic Management Command, died of a heart attach Sunday. He was stricken while playing golf at the International Town and Country Club in Fairfax. He had been on medical leave since suffering a heart attack last November. Mr. Hall, a native of Burlington, Iowa, served with the Army in Africa, Italy, France and Germany during World War II. After the war, he attended Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., and received bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Iowa University. Mr. Hall joined the federal government in 1952 as a trainee in civilian personnel management at the Rock Island Arsenal. He was an employee utilization technician at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico from 1952 to 1960. He then moved to Heidelberg, Germany, where he served as deputy chief of the program evaluation branch of the U.S. Army in Europe. From 1963 to 1965, he was in Berlin as civilian personnel officer for the U.S. Army. Mr. Hall returned to this country to serve as civilian personnel officer at Ft. Bliss, Tex., and Rock Island Arsenal. He came to Washington in 1969 to serve as director of civilian personnel for the Military District of Washington. In April, 1972 Mr. Hall was sent to Vietnam to direct the U.S. Army work force. In 1973, he was responsible for the beginning of the phaseout of some of the U.S. civilian and Vietnamese work force. He returned to Washington that year as chief of civilian personnel for the Military Traffic Management Command. He is survived by his wife, Gwendolyn H. Hall, of the home, 4033 Olley La., Fairfax; two sons, Leland H., of Hampton, Va., and William H., of Charleston, S.C.; his mother, Mrs. Clair Schultz, of Rockford, Ill.; a brother, William H., of Omaha, Neb., and a sister, Mr. (sic) Robert Elliott, of Glencoe, Ala. The family suggests that expressions of sympathy may be in the form of cotnributions to the Heart Association. Additional Comments: Vitals: b.June 22, 1920 Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa; m.1942 in Illinois to Gwendolyn Patricia HASKELL (1922-1987); d.June 29, 1975 Fairfax, Fairfax, Virginia; cremated, buried at sea. Parents: C. Ray HALL (1895-?) and Rose E. Harrison (1894-?). File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/fairfax/obits/h/hall177gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb