RICHMOND , VA - Allan McAlpin Heyward, 87, of Richmond, Virginia, died November 16, 2009 after a brief illness. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Marianna Chapin Marshall Heyward, his children, Allan McAlpin Heyward, Jr. and Virginia Randolph Heyward of Richmond, Roberta Guerard Heyward Perkins of Reading, England, and Wayne Marshall Heyward of Sebattus Maine, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He was born May 14, 1922, in Savannah, Georgia, the son of George Cuthbert Heyward, Jr. and Alice Stuart Hunter Heyward. He was preceded in death by his parents, by his brother George C. Heyward, and his sisters Alice Stuart Heyward of Bluffton, S.C., and Marjory Heyward Mingledorff of Savannah. He attended Miss Pape's School and Savannah High School, and graduated from The Citadel with a degree in Civil Engineering. He was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the Second World War and the occupation of Japan. He was recalled during the Korean War and served in Korea. He worked for many years for Virginia Engineering Company in Newport News, Virginia. In 1964 he was appointed by then Governor Albertus S. Harrison to serve on the Virginia Board of Conservation and Economic Development, to which he was reappointed in 1968. He moved to Richmond in the early 1970s while working for Daniel International of Greenville, S.C., to oversee construction of the Philip Morris plant in the Richmond area. In 1974, he left Daniel International and founded Heyward Construction Company, a general contracting firm based in Richmond, Virginia, which he remained with until he retired in the late 1990's. Though he settled in Virginia, he always maintained close ties to Savannah and to Bluffton, S.C. He was an avid and active sailor and outdoorsman. He was a member and past Commodore of the Southwest Harbor Fleet in Maine, and past president of Deep Run Hunt Club in Richmond. He was a member and past President-General of the Society of Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, and of the Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He was a member of All Saints Episcopal Church in Richmond, VA and St. John and St. Andrew Episcopal Church in Southwest Harbor, Maine. His remains will be interred at St. Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah. Savannah Morning News (SMN), Sunday, November 22 2009.