James D. McBrayer Jr., Brigadier General USMC (Ret) and Professor Emeritus of the University System of Georgia, died. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 2, in the Chapel at the Galleria Woods, and also at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 20, at the Chapel at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. His remains will be placed in the Columbarium at the Naval Academy, with military honors.
Brigadier Gen. McBrayer was the son of James D. and Julia Ann (Locke) McBrayer, both deceased. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1939, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant USMC, and assigned to the American Embassy in Peking, China. On Dec. 8, 1941, he was taken as POW by the Japanese. In May 1945, he escaped, walking across China to U.S. Forces and arrived back in the U.S. on July 9, 1945. He was married to Helen Jean Paterson, his long-betrothed fiancée, on July 11, 1945.
He served in Panama, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Korea, as well as assignments in the U.S. He earned a Master's Degree in International Relations from Boston University in 1961. After physical retirement from the USMC in 1965, he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Emory University, taught at Georgia Tech from 1965 to 1973, and at Georgia State University from 1973 until his second retirement in 1983. He moved to the Isle of Palms, S.C., before suffering a stroke in 1993. In 1994, he and his wife moved to Galleria Woods Retirement Community in Birmingham, Ala.
He was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa Fraternity, Phi Sigma Alpha Fraternity, Who's Who in Georgia, The Retired Officers'Association, American Ex-POW's Association, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, American Legion and Disabled American Veterans Association. His many decorations include two Legions of Merit, one with Combat "V" and two Purple Hearts.
Surviving are his sons, James D. McBrayer, III, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., and John A. McBrayer, of Pelham, Ala.; daughter-in-law, Susan Woodruff McBrayer; and grandsons, Daniel Stuart McBrayer and Timothy Richard McBrayer.
Arrangements by Rideout's Southern Heritage Chapel, Pelham, Ala.
Waco Tribune-Herald: 9/29/2006
Brigadier Gen. McBrayer was the son of James D. and Julia Ann (Locke) McBrayer, both deceased. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1939, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant USMC, and assigned to the American Embassy in Peking, China. On Dec. 8, 1941, he was taken as POW by the Japanese. In May 1945, he escaped, walking across China to U.S. Forces and arrived back in the U.S. on July 9, 1945. He was married to Helen Jean Paterson, his long-betrothed fiancée, on July 11, 1945.
He served in Panama, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Korea, as well as assignments in the U.S. He earned a Master's Degree in International Relations from Boston University in 1961. After physical retirement from the USMC in 1965, he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Emory University, taught at Georgia Tech from 1965 to 1973, and at Georgia State University from 1973 until his second retirement in 1983. He moved to the Isle of Palms, S.C., before suffering a stroke in 1993. In 1994, he and his wife moved to Galleria Woods Retirement Community in Birmingham, Ala.
He was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa Fraternity, Phi Sigma Alpha Fraternity, Who's Who in Georgia, The Retired Officers'Association, American Ex-POW's Association, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, American Legion and Disabled American Veterans Association. His many decorations include two Legions of Merit, one with Combat "V" and two Purple Hearts.
Surviving are his sons, James D. McBrayer, III, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., and John A. McBrayer, of Pelham, Ala.; daughter-in-law, Susan Woodruff McBrayer; and grandsons, Daniel Stuart McBrayer and Timothy Richard McBrayer.
Arrangements by Rideout's Southern Heritage Chapel, Pelham, Ala.
Waco Tribune-Herald: 9/29/2006
James D. McBrayer Jr., Brigadier General USMC (Ret) and Professor Emeritus of the University System of Georgia, died. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 2, in the Chapel at the Galleria Woods, and also at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 20, at the Chapel at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. His remains will be placed in the Columbarium at the Naval Academy, with military honors.
Brigadier Gen. McBrayer was the son of James D. and Julia Ann (Locke) McBrayer, both deceased. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1939, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant USMC, and assigned to the American Embassy in Peking, China. On Dec. 8, 1941, he was taken as POW by the Japanese. In May 1945, he escaped, walking across China to U.S. Forces and arrived back in the U.S. on July 9, 1945. He was married to Helen Jean Paterson, his long-betrothed fiancée, on July 11, 1945.
He served in Panama, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Korea, as well as assignments in the U.S. He earned a Master's Degree in International Relations from Boston University in 1961. After physical retirement from the USMC in 1965, he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Emory University, taught at Georgia Tech from 1965 to 1973, and at Georgia State University from 1973 until his second retirement in 1983. He moved to the Isle of Palms, S.C., before suffering a stroke in 1993. In 1994, he and his wife moved to Galleria Woods Retirement Community in Birmingham, Ala.
He was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa Fraternity, Phi Sigma Alpha Fraternity, Who's Who in Georgia, The Retired Officers'Association, American Ex-POW's Association, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, American Legion and Disabled American Veterans Association. His many decorations include two Legions of Merit, one with Combat "V" and two Purple Hearts.
Surviving are his sons, James D. McBrayer, III, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., and John A. McBrayer, of Pelham, Ala.; daughter-in-law, Susan Woodruff McBrayer; and grandsons, Daniel Stuart McBrayer and Timothy Richard McBrayer.
Arrangements by Rideout's Southern Heritage Chapel, Pelham, Ala.
Waco Tribune-Herald: 9/29/2006
Brigadier Gen. McBrayer was the son of James D. and Julia Ann (Locke) McBrayer, both deceased. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1939, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant USMC, and assigned to the American Embassy in Peking, China. On Dec. 8, 1941, he was taken as POW by the Japanese. In May 1945, he escaped, walking across China to U.S. Forces and arrived back in the U.S. on July 9, 1945. He was married to Helen Jean Paterson, his long-betrothed fiancée, on July 11, 1945.
He served in Panama, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Korea, as well as assignments in the U.S. He earned a Master's Degree in International Relations from Boston University in 1961. After physical retirement from the USMC in 1965, he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Emory University, taught at Georgia Tech from 1965 to 1973, and at Georgia State University from 1973 until his second retirement in 1983. He moved to the Isle of Palms, S.C., before suffering a stroke in 1993. In 1994, he and his wife moved to Galleria Woods Retirement Community in Birmingham, Ala.
He was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa Fraternity, Phi Sigma Alpha Fraternity, Who's Who in Georgia, The Retired Officers'Association, American Ex-POW's Association, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, American Legion and Disabled American Veterans Association. His many decorations include two Legions of Merit, one with Combat "V" and two Purple Hearts.
Surviving are his sons, James D. McBrayer, III, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., and John A. McBrayer, of Pelham, Ala.; daughter-in-law, Susan Woodruff McBrayer; and grandsons, Daniel Stuart McBrayer and Timothy Richard McBrayer.
Arrangements by Rideout's Southern Heritage Chapel, Pelham, Ala.
Waco Tribune-Herald: 9/29/2006
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