Frank Gilchrist, Army Colonel, 91, Washington Post

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/01/AR2009080102124_4.html

Frank Gilchrist Army Colonel

Frank Gilchrist, 91, a retired colonel in the Army Corps of Engineers, died
July 17 [2009] at his home in Middleburg of Addison's disease, an
insufficiency of hormone production by the adrenal glands.

He was born in Mount Selman, Tex., and he graduated from Texas A&M College
in 1938. Ordered to active duty in January 1941, he joined the 90th Infantry
Division and commanded its combat engineer battalion on D-Day, landing at
Utah Beach. He continued to serve in Europe until the end of the war there.

After World War II, he held a variety of engineering assignments in the
United States and on Guam. He served as an assistant military attache in
Poland, defense attache in Uruguay and as chief of the facilities
engineering division at the Department of the Army headquarters. He retired
from the Army in 1969.

Col. Gilchrist then worked for J.W. Bateson Construction in the Washington
area until retiring a second time in 1975, when he moved from Annandale to
Loudoun County.

He served on the boards of Loudoun Memorial Hospital, the county sanitation
authority, the county industrial development authority, Middleburg's
Historic District Review Committee and the Oatlands Plantation. He also
volunteered as a tutor of English to recent immigrants.

His military decorations included two awards of the Silver Star, the Bronze
Star Medal and the Legion of Merit.

His wife of 43 years, Carmen Tyson Gilchrist, died in 1983.

Survivors include his companion of 20 years, Sylvia McElvey of Middleburg;
two children from his marriage, John T. Gilchrist of Annandale and Linda G.
Snow of Tampa; and five grandchildren.

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Patricia Sullivan