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Frank H. Cormany U.S. Army Air Corps WWII
Frank H. Cormany U.S. Army Air Corps WWII
 
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Date of Birth: 7/9/1924
Died On: 2/4/1993 Last Residence: 29412 Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Street Address: 109 Bradford Avenue
Service Number: unknown
Branch of Service: U.S. Army Air Corps-WWII


Veteran Code: USARMY-124


BIOGRAPHY
 
Frank H. Cormany


Frank Harold Cormany was born on July 9, 1924, in New York, New York, to Jenney Louise Jones, age 33, and Harold Leonard Cormany, age 34. He had one brother Richard and in Rye his family lived at 109 Bradford Avenue.

Frank enlisted and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.

First entering The Citadel on August 31, 1942, Cadet Cormany was honorably discharged the following Spring to enter active military service on April 9, 1943.

He was twice promoted and participated with the 320th Bombing Squadron, 90th Bombing Group in the battles of the Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Southern Philippines, and Western Pacific Air Combat.

He was awarded ribbons for the American Service Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal.

Frank Cormany Renews Study At Southern Military College
Friday. April 12, 1946 THE RYE CHRONICLE

After the war, Frank returned to his studies under the GI Bill, he was a 1948 graduate of The Citadel and a 1951 graduate of the University of Virginia Law School. He married Ethel Bennett in 1949 and they would have six children together. In 1952, he was admitted to the South Carolina Bar and was in private practice until 1954.

From 1954 to 1961, he was assistant U.S. District Attorney. He returned to private practice in 1961 and was solicitor for Aiken and city attorney for North Augusta. He was appointed administrative law judge by the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Charleston in 1971 and in 1973 was appointed chief administrative law judge. He resigned as chief in 1980, but continued to serve as a judge.

He was a member of The Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, where he was vestryman, Sunday School teacher and charter member of Home Bible Study. He was a former member of St. Thaddeus in Aiken, where he was junior warden and vestryman.

Frank Harold Cormany, administrative law judge, died Feb. 4, 1993, at a Charleston hospital. He was 68.

At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife, Dorothy Toole Cormany of Mount Pleasant; a daughter, Mary Louise C. Coleman of Aiken; five sons, Frank Harold Cormany Jr., David Carroll Cormany and Robert Daniel Cormany, all of Aiken, James Richard Cormany of Savannah, Ga., and Neal Bennett Cormany of Greenville; and two stepdaughters, De-bra U. Randolph of Augusta, Ga., and Carol U. Baxter of Charleston.

Services were held at The Episcopal Church of The Holy Communion, Charleston, with burial in Mount Pleasant Memorial Gardens.

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