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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;">John Ramsey Pugh NO. 9460 CLASS OF 1932</p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;">Died 2 March 1994 in Round Hill, Virginia, aged 84 years.</p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;">lnterment: Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.</p>
<p style="text-indent: .5in;">WHEN I THINK OF JOHNNIE (as he preferred to be called), the word "gentleman" comes to mind. Clean looking and meticulously dressed, when it became necessary to tangle with a street brawler, he kept swinging with both hands.</p>
<p style="text-indent: .5in;">On Pearl Harbor Day, Johnnie was with I Corps of the Philippine Army. As the U.S. troops were forced back onto Corregidor for 150 their final stand, he was the aide to the commanding general, Jonathan M. Wainwright.</p>
<p style="text-indent: .5in;">After General MacArthur and a few other key officers were ordered out of the Philippines to Australia in those early days of the war, the next in command, General Wainwright, remained to maintain discipline and to negotiate the best possible terms for the inevitable U.S. surrender. When a U.S. submarine made a final visit to Corregidor to take off a few more key individuals, Johnnie was offered a space but declined with thanks, saying that General Wainwright was staying and would need him.</p>
<p style="text-indent: .5in;">Johnnie carried the white flag of surrender at Corregidor and three-and-a-half years later, after being released from a POW camp in Manchuria, was with General Wainwright aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay when the U.S. victory was acknowledged and the peace treaty signed.</p>
<p style="text-indent: .5in;">But to begin at the beginning .... Johnnie was a standout throughout his career: a White House aide as a lieutenant; a paratrooper in the 82d Airborne Division; second-in-command of the U.S. Command, Berlin; and assistant chief of staff of the Eighth Army in Korea.</p>
<p style="text-indent: .5in;">In 1938, John married Louise Chase Myers, daughter of the founder of The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., of which John himself was later a trustee; president of the board; and a trustee emeritus when he died.</p>
<p style="text-indent: .5in;">They had two children: David Myers Pugh, now of Ashaway, Rhode Island, and Louise Pugh Broadwell of Brandford, Rhode Island.</p>
<p style="text-indent: .5in;">Louise died in 1960. Later, when he was chief of staff of the Second U.S. Army at Fort Meade, Maryland, Johnnie met Lieutenant Colonel Fran Elderdice, the WAC staff advisor of the Second U.S. Army. They were married in Copenhagen in 1962 when Johnnie was the commander of the 3d Armored Division with headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany.</p>
<p style="text-indent: .5in;">When Johnnie retired in 1966 after 34 years of active duty, he and Fran moved to Little Fiddlers' Green. It was a 600-acre farm that John bought in 1950inVirginia's hunt country, about 55 miles from D.C. As soon as they were established there, they started the delightful routine of "off-year" reunions. The entire class was invited to their lovely estate for an all-day get-together with an open bar, superb food and an abundance of ''remember whens."</p>
<p style="text-indent: .5in;">After 15 years of marriage, Johnnie and Fran amicably divorced in 1977. Shortly after, he married Marion Stirling, whose late husband was a noted anthropologist. Until her husband died in 1975, he and Marion had investigated archeological sites in Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica and Ecuador for the Smithsonian Institute and the National Geographic Society. Johnnie met Marion while she was a trustee of The Textile Museum. Marion was certainly a big help to Johnnie in his final years as his health began to fade.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Our sympathy goes to Marion, Fran and to Johnnie's children, David Myers Pugh and Louise Broadwell. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Ken Zitzman, close friend and classmate </span></p>
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