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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Harold Dye |
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Atlanta, Georgia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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November 01, 1917
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| Died | December 09, 2015
(98 years)
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | Rob Ritchie
Jan 29, 2018 01:26pm |
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| Info | Brigadier General Harold A. Dye died Wednesday, December 9, 2015 in his home at Kings Bridge Retirement Center. He was 98 years old. His wife, Emma Jean Townley Dye died in 2010. They had been married over 70 years. They had four children, eleven grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. Gen. Dye graduated from Georgia Tech in 1940 and was ordered to active duty in 1941. He served in England, France and Germany. After the war he and his brother, Mercer Dye founded Dye Construction Co. He was recalled to active duty in 1950 and served on the Armistice Commission in Korea; on the ROTC faculty at Iowa State College; as the Strategic Army Corps Officer in the Pentagon and with Seventh Army in Germany. He attended the Army War College, class of '65, and then on the staff of the Secretary of Defense as a weapons system evaluator. He retired in Aug. 1967 and became Deputy Director of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade. He was an advisor to President Eisenhower, ran for mayor of Atlanta, and liberated a concentration camp in WWI. He was a writer, public speaker, church leader and teacher. He was an Elder at Highlands Presbyterian church; the WWII Roundtable, Korea Veterans of America; Vietnam Veterans of America; ROC Veterans; and the Old Guard. His body was donated to Emory University School of Medicine.
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