Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dorsey, Daniel R. April 27, 1993
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Virginian-Pilot  April 28, 1993
Daniel R. Dorsey, 83, of the 1000 block of Cambridge Crescent, a retired captain 
in the Naval Reserve and a retired civil engineer, died April 27, 1993, in his 
home.

Capt. Dorsey was a native of Baltimore and a member and communicant of Our Lady of 
Victory Chapel in Norfolk. He was a 1932 graduate of the University of Maryland 
with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering. He was a member of the 
Retired Officers Association and the Reserve Officers Association. Capt. Dorsey 
was active in leadership of the local Boy Scout troops and was a member of the 
Colonial Order of the Crown. During World War II, he served in the Philippines. He 
retired in 1971 after 30 years of active and reserve duty combined. He was a 
commander of the Naval Reserve Seabee Battalion in Portsmouth for several years. 
From 1950 to 1971, he worked in professional civil engineering positions, most 
notably as chief engineer of the Public Works Center, Norfolk Naval Station, for 
several years. He retired from the Army Corps of Engineers as a senior manager of 
the nation's bomb shelter program.

Survivors include his wife, Florence A. Dorsey; a daughter, Deborah C. Ward of 
Norfolk; two sons, Daniel R. Dorsey Jr. of California City, Calif. and James C. 
Dorsey of Alexandria, Va.; a sister, Marie Brearey of Swansboro, N.C.; and a 
grandson, J. Michael Ward.

A funeral Mass will be conducted at 12:30 p.m. Friday in Our Lady Of Victory 
Chapel, Norfolk Naval Base, by the Rev. John L. Kaul. Entombment be in St. Mary's 
Catholic Cemetery Mausoleum. A Christian wake service will be held Thursday at 7 
p.m. in H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk.

Memorial donations may be made to a charity of choice.

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