Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Scullion, Joseph Riddick, RADM February 4, 1988
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Virginian-Pilot  February 8, 1988
VIRGINIA BEACH - Retired Rear Adm. Joseph Riddick Scullion, a Norfolk native whose 
career with the Coast Guard spanned more than three decades, died Feb. 4,
19888, in a hospital. He was 76.

After graduating from Maury High School in 1929, Adm. Scullion studied naval 
architecture at the University of Virginia and later entered the Coast Guard 
Academy in New London, Conn. He graduated in 1935 with a bachelor of science 
degree and was commissioned an ensign. He advanced to the rank of lieutenant, 
commander and captain and, in 1964, was promoted to rear admiral by President 
Lyndon B. Johnson. He retired in 1970.

During the early days of his career, Adm. Scullion served aboard Coast Guard 
cutters and later as a navigation instructor at the Coast Guard Academy from 1942 
to 1943. From 1943 to 1945, he was executive officer of the cutter Duane, which 
operated out of Boston on convoy escort duty. His World War II service medals and 
ribbons include the National Defense Service Medal, United Nations Medal and the 
World War II Victory Medal.

After the war, he reported to Portsmouth as commander of the former separation 
center there and later became chief of the reserve and auxiliary section at the 
5th Coast Guard District headquarters in Norfolk and also served as public 
information officer there.

After a year of study at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, he was 
assigned as chief of the War Plans Section, Program Analysis Division at Coast 
Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

From 1957 to 1960, he served as commander of Coast Guard Group, Norfolk, and as 
captain of the port of Norfolk and Newport News.

His last assignment before being appointed rear admiral was as chief of staff of 
17th Coast Guard District in Juneau, Alaska.
		
Adm. Scullion lived in the 500 block of Edwin Drive and was the widower of Frances 
Lawler Scullion.

Survivors include a daughter, Martha S. Prosser of Woodbridge, Va; two sons, John 
B. Scullion of Chesapeake and Joseph R. Scullion of Mathews, Va.; a brother, 
William J. Scullion of Norfolk; and four grandchildren.

A Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart 
Catholic Church, Norfolk, by the Rev. John J. Dorgan. Burial, with military 
honors, will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Norfolk.

A Christian prayer service will be conducted at 7 p.m. Sunday in H. D. Oliver 
Funeral Apartments, Norfolk.

Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society.


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