Charles Gunter Olentine

West Point, 1949

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by Terry Powers on December 30, 2022:

Charles Gunter Olentine, Sr. Energy Analyst Charles Gunter Olentine Sr., 73, a colonel in the Army Corps of Engineers who retired in 1975 and then spent 19 years at the Energy Department as a supervisory analyst, died of an allergic disorder Dec. 13 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He lived in Baltimore and was an Alexandria resident from 1964 to 1997. At the time he retired from the Energy Department, Col. Olentine worked in the business management division of the Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves. Col. Olentine joined the Corps of Engineers in 1949 and since the early 1970s has been stationed at the Chief of Engineers' office in Washington. He was born in Muldrow, Okla., and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1949. He received a master's degree in civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 and a master's degree in foreign relations at George Washington University in the late 1960s. He served in the Vietnam War. His hobbies included breeding horses. Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Barbara P. Olentine; two sons, Charles Jr., of Sterling, Ill., and Stephen P., of Princeton, N.J; and five grandchildren. From the Washington Post, December 18, 1999

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