MacDonnell, R. Hugh

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Reginald Hugh MacDonnell

Reginald Hugh MacDonnell was born on August 20, 1896, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Bertha Blanche Burton, age 17, and Hugh Franklin Macdonnell, age 23. In Rye his family lived at 759 Boston Post Road. He married Helen Frances Enfield on October 29, 1938, in Bedford, Pennsylvania.

Reginald served as an officer in the U.S. Army during World War I and World War II.

Reginald MacDonnell Colonel
Announcement has been of the promotion of Reginald H. MacDonnell of the Army Quartermaster Corps, from lieutenant-colonel to colonel. He and Mrs. MacDonnell are former residents of Rye, living at 757 Boston Post Road. He is now stationed in Chicago, where he is an inspector of canned foodstuff for the Army.
RYE, NEW YORK FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1943

He retired from the Army in 1956 as a colonel, after 34 years of service. He was director of laboratories for the Great A & P Tea Co., New York, until his retirement in 1964.

Reginald Hugh MacDonnell died on August 27, 1977, in a VA hospital in Hockessin, Delaware, at the age of 81, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Relatives and friends were invited to attend the Funeral Services at the ROBERT T. JONES 8. SON, FUNERAL HOME, 122 W. Main St Newark, De

Interment in Arlington National Cemetery was Thursday Sept 1, 1977