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     Caidence Elaina Beckett died on August 27, 2014 at North Carolina.² She was born on August 27, 2014 at North Carolina.²

     Edward L. Walls III was buried at Green Lawn Cemetery, 1000 Greenlawn Avenue, Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio.² He was born on January 26, 1947 at Ohio.¹ He died on May 2, 1952 at Ohio at age 5.

     Matthew Urias Freeland was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Robinson, Brown Co., Kansas.² He was born on December 17, 1874 at Kansas.^4,5 He married Nellie C. Smith, daughter of Albert B. Smith and Liona Elizabeth DeWeese, on April 8, 1903 at Brown Co., Kansas.^1,6,3 Matthew Urias Freeland died on November 25, 1935 at age 60.²

     Lee McQuerter Paschell Jr. was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.^3,4 His Social Security Number was 524-18-4774.² He was born on January 21, 1922 at Sterling, Logan Co., Colorado.^1,2,5,4 He married Bonnie Jean Willis, daughter of Ross A. Willis and Maurine Elizabeth Smith, on October 24, 1942 at Anniston, Calhoun Co., Alabama.^1,6 Lee McQuerter Paschell Jr. died on December 17, 2006 at Redwood City, San Mateo Co., California, at age 84.^2,5,7,4 He Lee M. Paschall, 84, a lieutenant general who was considered the father of modern command, control, communications and computers in the Air Force, died of heart ailments Dec. 17 at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, Calif., while visiting a daughter. He lived in McLean. Gen. Paschall was director of the Defense Communications Agency (now the Defense Information Systems Agency) from 1974 to 1978, responsible for worldwide communications of the military and top civilian leaders. "He really was a major force in shaping how telecommunications played in the areas of command and control," said Otto Hoernig, who worked with Gen. Paschall in the Air Force and in his post-retirement career. "He recognized that reliable telecommunications, down to the lowest echelon, was the most important thing to military operations." Although his career predated the modern era of personal desktop computers, Gen. Paschall saw the impending revolutionary changes in communications and information technology, and he set up systems and training that enabled the military to take advantage of those changes. "I think he, and all of us at the top, understood what was coming because we had contact with [the] best visionaries" in the field, said Robert L. Edge, a retired major general who worked with Gen. Paschall. "We didn't expect the revolution to come as fast as it has." Gen. Paschall, who worked in military communications "from the bugle call days," as Edge said, continued working in the field after his active-duty retirement in 1978. He became president, then chief executive and chairman, of Fairchild's American Satellite Co. in Rockville during the 1980s, when the company became profitable for the first time. He retired a second time in 1985 and continued to serve on corporate boards such as those of General DataCom Industries, Thales Communications Inc., Radiation Systems Inc. and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. He was a native of Sterling, Colo., and entered the military in 1939 through the Colorado National Guard, serving in the Army in Europe during World War II. After the war, he returned to the National Guard as a communications engineer and was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. Subsequent posts included Morocco, France, the United Kingdom and several stints at the Pentagon. First assigned to the Defense Communications Agency in 1964, he helped integrate the fields of command, control, communications and computers, Hoernig said. Although Gen. Paschall spent almost all of his career in communications, that was not typical of other officers, who came to the field in mid-career, Edge said. Because of the need to find and train talented officers, Gen. Paschall became a mentor to many of the officers who worked under him. He graduated from the University of Alabama and received a master's degree in international affairs from George Washington University in 1964. In 1999, Gen. Paschall was the first person elected to the Air Force Communications and Information Hall of Fame. An award for the top student in each Advanced Communications and Information Officer Training class at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi is named for him. Among his military awards are the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal and two awards of the Legion of Merit. His wife of 62 years, Bonnie Paschall, died in 2005. Survivors include two children, Patricia Grillos, of Atherton, Calif., and Stephen Paschall, of Englewood, Colo; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. on January 12, 2007.⁷