Patricia A. McAuliffe, 79, a Washington area resident since the early 1960s and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, died of pneumonia April 11 at Washington Adventist Hospital.
Miss McAuliffe was born in Fort Lewis, Wash.
Her father, Army Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, became a popular World War II hero after he famously replied, "Nuts!" to a German army demand that he surrender his 101st Airborne Division troops at Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge. He died in 1975.
Miss McAuliffe lived the nomadic military life with her family in Washington, New York, Germany and Japan. The family settled in Washington in the early 1960s.
She was a self-taught pianist and a voracious reader. She had lived at the Althea Woodard retirement home in Silver Spring since 1991.
Miss McAuliffe leaves no immediate survivors
Patricia A. McAuliffe, 79, a Washington area resident since the early 1960s and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, died of pneumonia April 11 at Washington Adventist Hospital.
Miss McAuliffe was born in Fort Lewis, Wash.
Her father, Army Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, became a popular World War II hero after he famously replied, "Nuts!" to a German army demand that he surrender his 101st Airborne Division troops at Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge. He died in 1975.
Miss McAuliffe lived the nomadic military life with her family in Washington, New York, Germany and Japan. The family settled in Washington in the early 1960s.
She was a self-taught pianist and a voracious reader. She had lived at the Althea Woodard retirement home in Silver Spring since 1991.
Miss McAuliffe leaves no immediate survivors
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