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Deceased from USMA Class of 1956 (124)
Order: Alphabetical - Change to descending date of death - Change to Cullum number order
| Name | Class | Eulogies | Born | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADAMS, Richard Eugene | 1956 | 4 | December 10, 1932 | March 15, 2009 |
| ARNOLD, Robert K. | 1956 | 2 | April 13, 1932 | May 16, 2002 |
| BARON, Albert A. | 1956 | 1 | December 7, 1934 | January 25, 2008 |
| BARRETT, Reid Anderson | 1956 | 1 | April 12, 1931 | June 16, 2006 |
| BEAUCHAMP, Irving Alonzo | 1956 | 1 | January 27, 1933 | December 31, 1997 |
| BENISH, Anthony Andrew | 1956 | 0 | October 18, 1933 | January 13, 1980 |
| BINSTEIN, Mark Paul | 1956 | 3 | March 31, 1934 | March 9, 2007 |
| BLACKWELL, Jesse Eugene | 1956 | 3 | November 9, 1931 | December 28, 2003 |
| BONNARENS, Frank Owen | 1956 | 0 | February 11, 1932 | September 19, 1968 |
| BORTOLUTTI, Angelo | 1956 | 2 | March 2, 1931 | January 2, 1992 |
| BRINKLEY, Charles Blane | 1956 | 3 | November 3, 1933 | August 15, 2007 |
| BROWN, Robert Ellsworth | 1956 | 1 | February 2, 1934 | July 28, 2001 |
| BRUNO, Nicholas Joseph | 1956 | 3 | January 31, 1935 | August 28, 1980 |
| BURBACH, Jerald M. | 1956 | 1 | January 14, 1934 | January 2, 2005 |
| BURHANS, Edmund Dederick | 1956 | 0 | July 2, 1934 | January 3, 2004 |
| CELESTE, Raymond | 1956 | 1 | September 26, 1931 | November 22, 1965 |
| CHAMBERS, Plato George | 1956 | 0 | March 14, 1932 | March 14, 2001 |
| CLARK, John James | 1956 | 0 | November 16, 1932 | June 2, 1970 |
| CRASE, Roland Bertram | 1956 | 0 | January 29, 1932 | July 16, 1981 |
| CRAVENS, William M. | 1956 | 0 | January 14, 1934 | May 11, 1969 |
| CREIGHTON, Terry Wayne | 1956 | 0 | April 5, 1933 | August 24, 1966 |
| CRITES, William Ralph | 1956 | 5 | May 15, 1932 | June 6, 2002 |
| DANEK, Robert Benton | 1956 | 1 | January 15, 1935 | April 9, 2003 |
| DANTOS, Evangelos | 1956 | 0 | August 8, 1932 | February 23, 1998 |
| DES ISLETS, Charles B. M. | 1956 | 0 | December 7, 1934 | January 2, 1989 |
| DOUGHERTY, Paul Gustave | 1956 | 0 | May 10, 1932 | April 8, 1996 |
| DUNN, Jack Adair | 1956 | 0 | April 2, 1931 | October 13, 1996 |
| ELIOT, Phillips Griffith | 1956 | 1 | June 4, 1932 | March 28, 1987 |
| ESPOSITO, Vincent Joseph | 1956 | 1 | September 16, 1934 | January 23, 1992 |
| FISCH, Donald Adolph | 1956 | 0 | August 30, 1932 | August 18, 1992 |
| FITZGERALD, John M. | 1956 | 0 | December 7, 1934 | August 21, 2006 |
| FLOYD, Ralph Hendrix | 1956 | 2 | December 4, 1931 | March 23, 1978 |
| FRANK, Winfield C. | 1956 | 0 | September 18, 1931 | April 22, 2006 |
| GLEASON, Joseph Edward | 1956 | 1 | July 30, 1933 | September 1, 2004 |
| GORDON, James Harper | 1956 | 0 | September 9, 1934 | December 6, 1958 |
| GRISCOM, Ralph Mereline | 1956 | 0 | November 19, 1932 | July 15, 2004 |
| HALL, Gary Curtiss | 1956 | 0 | December 31, 1932 | June 19, 1988 |
| HANSON, Thomas Wesley | 1956 | 0 | August 28, 1934 | November 7, 2009 |
| HARDING, Thomas Charles | 1956 | 1 | September 23, 1933 | January 4, 2002 |
| HARRIS, James Anthony | 1956 | 0 | February 9, 1931 | August 23, 2009 |
| HAYNE, Paul | 1956 | 0 | November 9, 1933 | September 26, 1971 |
| HEWITT, Robert Augur | 1956 | 1 | September 15, 1934 | February 3, 2006 |
| HIGGINS, John Henry | 1956 | 0 | July 17, 1933 | March 18, 1997 |
| HOLLEDER, Donald Walter | 1956 | 1 | August 3, 1934 | October 17, 1967 |
| HOLMQUIST, Harold Gordon | 1956 | 0 | December 21, 1931 | April 24, 1963 |
| HUNTER, Charles M. | 1956 | 0 | January 24, 1931 | January 5, 1999 |
| JAKUS, Paul Anthony | 1956 | 1 | March 10, 1934 | December 15, 2006 |
| JARMON, William Robert | 1956 | 0 | May 5, 1934 | May 27, 1958 |
| JASPER, Theodore Clinton | 1956 | 0 | February 22, 1932 | November 1, 1995 |
| JOHANSEN, William Robert | 1956 | 2 | March 16, 1933 | February 14, 2009 |
| JOHNSON, Douglas S | 1956 | 2 | September 10, 1934 | December 20, 2002 |
| JOHNSTON, Richard Reece | 1956 | 1 | April 22, 1933 | January 9, 2009 |
| KALLFELZ, John Michael | 1956 | 1 | November 21, 1934 | September 9, 1997 |
| KAMM, John Milton | 1956 | 3 | August 25, 1931 | November 22, 2005 |
| KEEFE, John William | 1956 | 0 | May 20, 1932 | December 6, 1958 |
| KRUTZ, Robert Douglas | 1956 | 0 | December 29, 1931 | October 1, 2002 |
| LANE, James Fulton | 1956 | 0 | April 3, 1934 | July 3, 1997 |
| LANSING, Samuel Murray | 1956 | 1 | August 29, 1932 | August 11, 1959 |
| LEMMON, Samuel Lindsay | 1956 | 0 | February 14, 1933 | July 23, 2001 |
| LINDEN, James Ambrose | 1956 | 0 | October 22, 1932 | July 12, 1991 |
| MARTIN, Edwin Woods | 1956 | 0 | May 9, 1934 | June 23, 1967 |
| MATT, Jon Rutledge | 1956 | 1 | March 3, 1933 | May 17, 1992 |
| MAYER, Irwin Benton | 1956 | 0 | February 3, 1932 | October 2, 1970 |
| MAYSON, Elford Morgan | 1956 | 1 | November 3, 1934 | August 3, 1982 |
| MCCAHAN, Walter Lee | 1956 | 2 | September 18, 1934 | March 15, 1968 |
| MCCREA, William Barcley | 1956 | 1 | January 14, 1934 | October 30, 1953 |
| MCNULTY, James Walsh | 1956 | 6 | December 17, 1933 | March 24, 2003 |
| MEBERG, Sverre A. | 1956 | 0 | December 7, 1934 | August 17, 2001 |
| MEDLEY, Porter Nelson | 1956 | 0 | December 6, 1931 | April 25, 2001 |
| MEROLA, Paul Anthony | 1956 | 3 | October 22, 1930 | May 15, 2009 |
| MORELLI, Donald Ray | 1956 | 10 | January 3, 1933 | June 27, 1984 |
| NARUS, William Edward | 1956 | 0 | June 22, 1935 | August 7, 2003 |
| PEARSON, Robert Leroy | 1956 | 1 | April 8, 1933 | June 13, 1997 |
| PELOSI, Silvio | 1956 | 0 | October 28, 1933 | December 23, 1989 |
| PINKERTON, Dale L | 1956 | 2 | May 9, 2003 | |
| POOLE, Charles Ellsworth | 1956 | 0 | October 22, 1932 | July 15, 2001 |
| PRATHER, Charles Givens | 1956 | 10 | January 22, 1932 | September 23, 2004 |
| RAJALA, Paul Wayne | 1956 | 0 | January 11, 1932 | July 23, 1978 |
| RANDALL, Robert Dale | 1956 | 0 | March 31, 1934 | October 15, 2001 |
| ROBERTS, Samuel J. | 1956 | 0 | July 10, 1933 | September 16, 2000 |
| ROBERTSON, Charles William | 1956 | 2 | December 27, 1932 | January 9, 1967 |
| ROOT, Roger Alan | 1956 | 2 | February 20, 1932 | January 1, 2001 |
| ROSS, Robert Allison | 1956 | 0 | December 19, 1931 | November 6, 1985 |
| ROSS, Thomas Eugene | 1956 | 1 | October 18, 1931 | December 11, 2007 |
| SANDERS, Joe Edward | 1956 | 0 | December 27, 1932 | May 1, 1992 |
| SARKISS, Charles Defitzer | 1956 | 0 | March 21, 1932 | January 2, 1971 |
| SCALES, David J. | 1956 | 0 | January 14, 1932 | September 17, 1997 |
| SCHAUMBERG, G. Richard | 1956 | 1 | December 6, 1933 | June 8, 1974 |
| SERRIO, Ned R. | 1956 | 3 | November 4, 2007 | |
| SHERIDAN, Robert Bruce | 1956 | 0 | October 8, 1932 | August 27, 1995 |
| SHIREY, James Clarence | 1956 | 2 | June 7, 1932 | October 14, 2006 |
| SKIDMORE, Wilbur Manly | 1956 | 5 | August 2, 1932 | April 13, 2006 |
| SMITH, Donald Bertrand | 1956 | 2 | September 11, 1933 | August 6, 1980 |
| SMITH, Lowell Gene | 1956 | 0 | July 1, 1934 | March 2, 1984 |
| SPAENI, Herbert Henry | 1956 | 1 | April 27, 1934 | February 25, 1960 |
| STANLEY, James Walter | 1956 | 1 | April 17, 1933 | June 23, 1967 |
| STEVENSON, John H | 1956 | 4 | March 4, 1934 | July 18, 1999 |
| STEWART, Robert Allan | 1956 | 0 | November 14, 1931 | April 3, 1978 |
| STRAUB, James Ober | 1956 | 0 | February 24, 1931 | December 15, 1989 |
| STROFACE, Joseph Francis | 1956 | 0 | April 7, 1931 | April 9, 2001 |
| SULLIVAN, Robert Patrick | 1956 | 11 | July 16, 1933 | March 30, 2005 |
| SUTHERLAND, John S. | 1956 | 0 | April 26, 1934 | April 10, 1967 |
| TAYLOR, John Alton | 1956 | 1 | April 16, 1933 | October 2, 1999 |
| TINSMAN, Robert Blair | 1956 | 2 | July 11, 1933 | April 14, 2003 |
| TRIPP, Richard Lee | 1956 | 1 | March 12, 1934 | July 20, 2006 |
| TURNER, Hiram Barricklow | 1956 | 0 | January 7, 1932 | July 19, 1982 |
| VALENCE, Edward | 1956 | 2 | December 16, 1932 | April 18, 2002 |
| VAN DERVORT, Edmund Leroy | 1956 | 1 | February 3, 1933 | February 12, 1979 |
| WALLACE, Bruce Mcclain | 1956 | 3 | September 20, 1931 | August 28, 2004 |
| WANGE, Lawrence Arthur | 1956 | 0 | December 9, 1931 | September 2, 1988 |
| WASHBURN, Richard Brent | 1956 | 1 | March 5, 1934 | September 17, 2003 |
| WATERS, Joseph Patrick | 1956 | 1 | March 31, 1932 | October 16, 1972 |
| WEINSTEIN, Sidney Thomas | 1956 | 5 | November 1, 1934 | May 24, 2007 |
| WERBEL, Jerome Hirsch | 1956 | 1 | December 11, 1932 | April 15, 2000 |
| WETZEL, Robert | 1956 | 0 | December 15, 1934 | May 6, 1959 |
| WHITE, William Alfred | 1956 | 1 | August 14, 1934 | July 20, 1958 |
| WILLIAMS, Alex Norwood | 1956 | 0 | April 1, 1934 | July 14, 1960 |
| WILLIAMS, Gary Criswell | 1956 | 0 | November 20, 1933 | December 24, 1990 |
| WILLIAMS, Walter Douglas | 1956 | 0 | April 17, 1934 | July 10, 1967 |
| WILSON, Ernest Bayley | 1956 | 1 | November 6, 1932 | November 15, 2009 |
| WOOD, Walter S. | 1956 | 0 | May 22, 1966 | |
| WYNN, Gerard Michael | 1956 | 1 | August 29, 1933 | November 14, 1967 |
| YON, Everett Marion | 1956 | 1 | July 6, 1934 | March 20, 1993 |
| YOUNG, Romain Alton | 1956 | 1 | January 19, 1933 | April 7, 1995 |
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