He is survived by a brother, James H Broyles of Culpeper; three sisters, Alice B Marshall and Mary B Brown, both of Culpeper, and Eva B Woods of Raleigh, NC. His wife is the late Jane Howard Broyles.
Harmon was General Douglas MacArthur's Aid toward the end and after World War II and during the Korean Conflict. He received the Korean Service Medal, United Nations Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.
He worked for Western Electric and the Federal Communications Commission during the early days of organization of the Government Agency.
He was the inventor of the system by which multiple conversations can take place on the same telephone line. He was a graduate with two engineering degrees from Virginia Tech.
Following his Army career, he was an Engineering Professor at Clemson University for twenty years.
A funeral service will be held on Friday, May 19, at 1 p.m. at the graveside in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.
Dunbar Funeral Home, Gervais Street Chapel, is in charge of the arrangements in Columbia, and Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home of Silver Springs, Maryland is in charge of the arrangements in Arlington, Virginia.
Memorials can be made to the Virginia-Carolina's Scholarship Foundation, P.O. Box 6535, Columbia, S.C. 29260-6535.
He is survived by a brother, James H Broyles of Culpeper; three sisters, Alice B Marshall and Mary B Brown, both of Culpeper, and Eva B Woods of Raleigh, NC. His wife is the late Jane Howard Broyles.
Harmon was General Douglas MacArthur's Aid toward the end and after World War II and during the Korean Conflict. He received the Korean Service Medal, United Nations Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.
He worked for Western Electric and the Federal Communications Commission during the early days of organization of the Government Agency.
He was the inventor of the system by which multiple conversations can take place on the same telephone line. He was a graduate with two engineering degrees from Virginia Tech.
Following his Army career, he was an Engineering Professor at Clemson University for twenty years.
A funeral service will be held on Friday, May 19, at 1 p.m. at the graveside in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.
Dunbar Funeral Home, Gervais Street Chapel, is in charge of the arrangements in Columbia, and Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home of Silver Springs, Maryland is in charge of the arrangements in Arlington, Virginia.
Memorials can be made to the Virginia-Carolina's Scholarship Foundation, P.O. Box 6535, Columbia, S.C. 29260-6535.
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