Posted by Terry Powers on April 20, 2023:

Army Colonel Orton Flournoy Spencer, 77, an Army colonel, artillery and missile officer and engineer who retired in 1981 from a weapons systems evaluation assignment at the Pentagon, died July 26 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He had a lung infection. Col. Spencer, who lived in Fairfax, was born in Seattle and raised in Fayetteville, N.Y. He served in the Navy in the North Atlantic during World War II. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1949. He received a master's degree in nuclear physics from Purdue University and a second master's degree, in computer science, from George Washington University. His postings with the Army included Germany, Korea and Vietnam. After he retired, he did weapons systems evaluation work for National Systems Management, Endmark Corp., Teledyne, Brown Engineering, and Jorge Scientific Corp. His honors included two Legions of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal and the Army Commendation Medal. He was a member of Army Navy Country Club, the W.T. Woodson Athletic Boosters and the West Point Society. He was president of the Spencer Historical and Genealogical Society and editor of its quarterly journal. Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Gwendolyn Spencer of Fairfax; three children, Christopher Spencer of Cary, N.C., Thomas Spencer of Alpharetta, Ga., and Gwen Van Voorhis of Cleveland; a sister; and three grandchildren. A daughter, Barbara Jane Spencer, died in 2000. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/08/25/hattie-mama-lou-lucas-bab/b8de77be-232a-4374-91dc-52c114c5e9f1/ NAME SPENCER, Orton Flournoy PUBLICATION ABBREVIATION Wash DC Post (DC) PUBLICATION DATE 2003-09-07 INDEXER TAG kimk

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