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Chris Sherman Scott

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Chris Sherman Scott Veteran

Birth
South Dakota, USA
Death
17 Nov 1988 (aged 84)
McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
Plot
66, 0, 2497
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 19, 1988

Deceased Name: CHRIS S. SCOTT

Army Lieutenant Colonel & NSA Official

Chris S. Scott, 84, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former security officer with the National Security Agency, died of cancer Nov. 17 at Arlington Hospital. He lived in McLean.

Col. Scott, who had maintained a home in this area since about 1949, was a native of South Dakota. He graduated with high honors from what was then South Dakota State College in 1929, after which he became an accountant for General Electric in New York state.

He served in the National Guard and held an army reserve commission before being called to active duty in World War II. He served in Germany, at war crime trials, after the war and in Korea during the war there. He also worked for the Army Security Agency before retiring from active duty in 1961. He then became a civilian NSA employee for 10 years before retiring in 1971.

Col. Scott was a member of the Retired Officers Association, the Phoenix Society and the Tuckahoe Recreation Club of McLean.

Survivors include his wife, Lauretta, of McLean, and a sister, Lillian Heimrick of Lead, S.D.

Military Information: LTC, US ARMY
Washington Post, The (DC) - November 19, 1988

Deceased Name: CHRIS S. SCOTT

Army Lieutenant Colonel & NSA Official

Chris S. Scott, 84, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former security officer with the National Security Agency, died of cancer Nov. 17 at Arlington Hospital. He lived in McLean.

Col. Scott, who had maintained a home in this area since about 1949, was a native of South Dakota. He graduated with high honors from what was then South Dakota State College in 1929, after which he became an accountant for General Electric in New York state.

He served in the National Guard and held an army reserve commission before being called to active duty in World War II. He served in Germany, at war crime trials, after the war and in Korea during the war there. He also worked for the Army Security Agency before retiring from active duty in 1961. He then became a civilian NSA employee for 10 years before retiring in 1971.

Col. Scott was a member of the Retired Officers Association, the Phoenix Society and the Tuckahoe Recreation Club of McLean.

Survivors include his wife, Lauretta, of McLean, and a sister, Lillian Heimrick of Lead, S.D.

Military Information: LTC, US ARMY


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