WORLD WAR II HERO DIES IN CAPITAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400280036-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: July 17, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Albert B. Seitz
World War II .
Hero Dies
In Capital
JUL 7 1962
STATINTL
Funeral services will be
held 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in
Washington, D.C. M i l i t a r y
1T X11 F,tIr., 63, services here will be held 10
formerly of 78 Blenheim Rd., `a.m. Friday at Schoedinger
died 'late Sunday at Walter date St. Chapel, with the
teed Army Hospital, Wash- tRev. G. G. Gifford, St. John's
Episcopal Church, officiating.
ington, D.C., where he had :. Burial will be in ~tiverside
been a p a tie n t for six Cemetry. Friends may call at
months. It` ..funeral home Thursday
2 to 5 and Ito 3 p_m.
A double amputee, the
West Point alumnus lost both
egs to a circulatory ailment
contracted when his feet
were frozen as he led.~r. O $
(combat unit through 4kugo-
slavia during World War II.
COL. SEITZ was . .the
Central In1~1i,ce,. Agency
tin Wash'Ingtoif ' until'_. 1157,
when he went as d`'viIian
with the International 'Coop.
eration, Administration to
Laos.
Seitz was the author of
"Mihailovic-Hero of Hoax,"
an account of his experience
,with Yugoslavia's w a r t i m e
hero and guerilla leader.
A native of Springfield, he
iwas a Northwest Mounted
Policeman in Canada before
coming to Columbus, where
he was an engineer with the
Ohio Public Utilities and the
Ohio Fuel Gas Co. He was a
member of George' Cultic
American Legion Post 6 in
Springfield;
HE IS survived by his wife,
Mildred; two sons, Albert B.
Seitz III, Washington, D.C.,
and Robb L. Seitz, Wester.
ville; one daughter, Mrs. Ed.
:ward L. Ramsey, Ft. Leaven-
iworth, Kan.; one sister, Mrs.
!Margaret C o t n e r, Chicago,
I11., and, four grandchildren.
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