The Ancestors and Cousins of Tracy Lynn DeVault

Harriette Virginia Rhawn was born on 18 December 1925 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co., West Virginia.^1,4 She and James William Behringer were married on 7 November 1947.⁵ She and Beaman Twitty White were married on 11 November 1977 in Loudoun Co., Virginia.⁴ She and Paul Longstreth Fussell, Jr. PhD, were married after 1980. She died on 14 November 2012, at age 86, in Medford, Jackson Co., Oregon.⁵

Harriette Virginia Rhawn was also known as Harriet Virginia Rhawn.⁶ She had reference number 56071. She was enumerated on the census in Harrison County, West Virginia (1930, 1940.) She was educated Earned a bachelor's degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University (1947) and a master's degree in education from the University of Illinois, Urbana (1968.)^4,5 She was a Journalist and public relations executive; taught kindergarten through high school in the Chicago area (see obituary.)⁵ She resided in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois (1950s); Connecticut (1969 - 1973); Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Virginia (1973 - 1983); Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania (1983); Medford, Jackson Co., Oregon (2012.)⁵ In 2001, Harriette is mentioned in her cousin's obituary using the Behrenger surname.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland; Sunday, April 13, 1947; Page 82 (Newspapers.com)

Personals
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Englar, of Murdock road, has as guests, her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Heister Rhawn of West Virginia. They will be joined later by their daughter, Miss Harriett Rhawn, a senior at Northwestern University.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - Chicago Tribune; Chicago, Illinois; Sunday, June 23, 1957; Main Edition, Page 124 (Newspapers.com)

Home-Grown, by Harriette Behringer
Something had to be done about the housework.
This became obvious after our fourh child was born. The day time chores weren't wearying; the twilight ones were. The table setting and clearing, the plate scraping, the washing and drying and putting away of the dishes -- these simple tasks seemed to take forever.
Four children should not mean that a mother no longer has energy and time enough for the bed time story. Yet that was the way it was working out. Often I would beg off and whisk the youngsters into bed as fast as I could.
In order to straighten out this snarl in our day, I took what I felt to be the most sensible step. I spread the workload (but not by handing an apron to my husband, which would be unfair to a hardworking breadwinner).
I enlisted the children themselves. Marcy, 4, would set the table and maybe help with dish wiping; Cole, 8, would wash and Rocklin (Rocky), 6, would dry (and possibly give the baby, Liese, a bottle, if the need arose).
The plan worked well. The children have discovered the meaning of cooperation. Each one accepts responsibility. As for the quality of the dishwashing, the dryer has the right to return to the washer any item with a trace of food still on it. And, since I'm the one that puts the dishes away, I can check on the dryer's thoroness.
Of course, pots and skillets, sweeping and windup touches still are my department. But I do get to the story.
One evening a neighbor boy dropped in when the work crew was in action. He stared for a while in fascination. Then -- shades of Tom Sawyer! -- he asked plaintively: "Have you got a towell for me?"

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - Chicago Tribune; Chicago, Illinois; Sunday, September 13, 1964; Other Editions, Page 109 (Newspapers.com)

Mother Goes Away to College! by Harriett Behringer

What's it like to live on a college campus again at an age when you can more accurately describe yourself as Mrs. Middle Age than Betty Co-Ed? A Park Forest housewife and mother has a firsthand report.

Determination to get a master's degree sent Mrs. Harriette Behringer back to campus life after 14 years. She's a Park Forest kindergarten teacher.

"GOOD-BY Betty Co-ed," said my husband, as I hoisted myself aboard the Illinois Central southbound train.
I felt like waving an orange and blue pennant, for at last I was on my way to the University of Illinois. Mother was going away to college!
And yet, my vision blurred and my lips trembled. Altho I was looking forward to the four week summer session, I knew I would miss the family I left behind. For I wasn't Betty Co-ed. Not at all. I was more like Mrs. Middle Age, and I was a wife and mother of four!
Would they miss me? Would they get enough to eat? And how about my experience? Would it be an adventure in learning or a big flop? As the train pulled away from the red brick Homewood station, and eggbeater whirled in my head.
I was temporarily forsaking bed and board in the suburbs for college. It was a dream of mine to complete the requirements for a master of education degree, and this would be the first leg on a requirement called residency.
I was going away to college because the university had tersely stated, "A master's degree candidate must spend at least two semisters in residence."
It was fine, said the university, to take those handy courses at its extension service in my local high school, but this couldn't go on forever. I had to get going on this residency requirement. So I decided to knock off those two semisters in short segments, with the four week summer session as a starter.
The train pulled into the humid twin cities, Champaign-Urbana, and I took a cab to my sorority house, Alpha Omicron Pi. My room was waiting. I unpacked my sheets, quilt, clothes, soap chips, et al, and was up for breakfast and class the next day. My schedule was 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday thru Friday, with two hours out for lunch and all the hours at the library that I could squeese in. My course was creative writing for elementary grades; my instructor, the very intense and helpful educator, Dr. Walter A. Moore.
What was it like to be a co-ed again? It had been 14 years since I graduated from Northwestern university, yet 14 years had not brought too many startling changes. The girls were still as lithe and blonde as ever, perhaps more blonde. Young men were still calling; the buzzer was still buzzing with waiting dates in the foyer.
In many ways I was as naive as any freshman. I could find my way around Chicago's Old Town, but I needed my campus map every minute to tell which handsome red brick building was which.
After a week I could locate the library stacks and I had discovered the English building pool, where I took a daily dip after class. I found the foreign film society, and saw some great movies. I tracked down everything that needed tracking, but I still needed my special library map.
I found the undergraduates to be, in general, serious-minded young women. Almost unanimously they agreed that college was getting tougher than ever. They told of a recent freshman convocation at which the speaker said: "Look to your right. Look to your left. Only one of you will be hear next year."
Meanwhile, back at the ranch house in suburbia, things went well. The family consulted an elaborate daily chart which I hung on the kitchen bulletin board. They read such romantic reminders as "Tuesday: Bring in milk, take out garbage. Wednesday: swim team. Friday: golf lessons." On my three day week-end at home, I kept up on the laundry, made bowls of Jello, and stocked up on hamburgers, and cold cuts.
And during the week there were no tears at my absence. The children had a grand time with their dad. It was only because he had recently set up his office at home and was able to keep an eye on the youngsters that I could get away.
In fact, everything worked out so well that I'm planning to go back next summer, for I still haven't finished my residency requirements.
And I enjoyed my campuss days immensely, especially the atmosphere of learning. It will enrich me for many months. I enjoyed, too, being "one of the girls" for a bit, even tho I realized that they didn't see me in exactly that light. One of the cute little blondes asked me if I were the housemother. I regained my self-control in time to chuckle weakly. True, I was old enough to be her mother. But I didn't want to be anyone's mother except the four who had been so good about waiting at home for Mom to yell, "School's out!"

OBITUARY - The Philadelphia Inquirer; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Tuesday, December 4, 2012; Page B05 (Newspapers.com)

Harriette B. Fussell, 86, writer, advocae, by Sally A. Downey, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Harriette Behringer Fussell, 86, formerly of Center City, a journalist and public relations executive who was an advocate for women's rights, died Wednesday, Nov. 14, at a long-term care home in Medford, Ore. She had moved to Oregon two years ago to be close to family.
For 10 years, until moving to Philadelphia in 1983, Mrs Fussell was director of public and community relations for the International Xerox Training Center in Leesburg, Va.
At Xerox, she developed women's rights projects during a yearlong sabbatical. She championed feminism through lectures, workshops, and talk shows, and established Alert magazine to assist women in all areas of job equality, her son Cole Behringer said.
After moving to Philadelphia, Mrs. Fussell edited newsletters for the Federal Reserve Bank and the U.S. Mint.
In 1990, she retired to accompany her husband, Paul Fussell, to London for a two-year study abroad program sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania.
Her husband, then a professor at Penn, was a recipient of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1975 book, The Great War and Modern Memory. The couple met in the early 1980s when she sent him a postcard after reading an article about him.
In recent years, she was active with Planned Parenthood and the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, wrote book reviews for The Inquirer, and contributed numerous letters to the editor to The Inquirer about social issues.
An authority on Benjamin Franklin, Mrs. Fussell suggested excerpts from Franklin's autobiography that were published in The Inquirer in 1990 to honor the bicentennial of his death.
In 1992, Mrs. Fussell established a "Campaign Against Compulsory Audio," providing diners with cards to give to maitre d's or servers in restaurants requesting that music be turned down or turned off. She also campaigned against the intrusion of cellphones, her son said.
She and her husband, who died in 2010, enjoyed the cultural scene in Philadelphia, attending theater and opera performances and Philadelphia Orchestra concerts. "They had a great life to the end," her son said.
Mrs. Fussell was born in Clarksburg, W. Va. Her father, H. G. Rhawn, was a newspaper editor and publisher. She earned a bachelor's degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1947, and a master's degree in education from the University of Illinois in 1968.
In 1947, she married James W. Behringer. They had four children before divorcing. While raining a family in the Chicago area, she taught kindergarten through high school classes in local public schools.
From 1969 to 1973 she lived in Connecticut, where she was editor of My Weekly Reader, a national classroom newspaper. She was the suthor of four children's books.
In addition to her son, Mrs. Fussell is survived by another son, Rocklin Behringer, daughters Marcy and Liese Behringer; 10 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Her former husband died in 1976.
A memorial service will be at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, at First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St.
Donations may be made to the Harriette Behringer Fussell Fund, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1144 Locust St., Philadelphia 19107. On James' death certificate he is listed as "married" and Harriette was the informant and is shown as his wife. In Harriette's obituary it says they were divorced. This marriage may not have lasted long. It was not mentioned in either Beaman's or Harriette's obituaries.

Citations

[S2774] Birth Records - West Virginia, Births Index, 1804 - 1938 (Ancestry.com)
[S2359] 1940 Census, West Virginia, Harrison County
[S1998] 1930 Census, West Virginia, Harrison County
[S9020] Marriage Records - Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936 - 2014 (Ancestry.com)
[S10375] Obituary - Harriette Virginia (Rhawn) Behrenger-White-Fussell
[S12465] U.S., Chicago and North Western Railroad Employment Records, 1935 - 1970 (Ancestry.com)

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James William Behringer^1,2,3

M, #55755, b. 12 September 1918, d. 18 October 1976

Parents

Father	Frank Henry Behringer
Mother	Esther M. Tufts

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Family: Harriette Virginia Rhawn (b. 18 December 1925, d. 14 November 2012)

Son	Cole Franklin Behringer
Son	Rocklin Tufts Behringer
Daughter	Marcy Rhawn Behringer
Daughter	Liese Ann Behringer

BASIC FACTS

James William Behringer was born on 12 September 1918 in Wisconsin.⁴ He and Harriette Virginia Rhawn were married on 7 November 1947.⁵ He died on 18 October 1976, at age 58, in Sterling, Loudoun Co., Virginia.^1,4 He was buried in Metropolitan Crematory, Alexandria, Virginia.⁶

James William Behringer had reference number 56072. He was a Sailor - lake boats (1940); self employed in the executive search industry (death certificate.)^6,3 He was enumerated on the census in Door County, Wisconsin (1920); Cook County, Illinois (1930); Door County, Wisconsin (1940.) On James' death certificate he is listed as "married" and Harriette was the informant and is shown as his wife. In Harriette's obituary it says they were divorced.

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[S9020] Marriage Records - Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936 - 2014 (Ancestry.com)
[S12465] U.S., Chicago and North Western Railroad Employment Records, 1935 - 1970 (Ancestry.com)
[S2360] 1940 Census, Wisconsin, Door County
[S6262] Genealogy prepared by jessicasky71 (Ancestry.com)
[S10375] Obituary - Harriette Virginia (Rhawn) Behrenger-White-Fussell
[S3532] Death Certificate - James William Behringer

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Beaman Twitty White¹

M, #55756, b. 28 February 1928, d. 25 June 2005

Parents

Father	Hayes MacMurry White
Mother	Laura Leigh Twitty

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BASIC FACTS

Beaman Twitty White was born on 28 February 1928 in Petersburg, Virginia.^1,2,3 He and Harriette Virginia Rhawn were married on 11 November 1977 in Loudoun Co., Virginia.¹ He died on 25 June 2005, at age 77.² He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery (aka Historic Oakwood Cemetery), Raleigh, Wake Co., North Carolina.

Beaman Twitty White had reference number 56073. His Social Security Number was Issued: North Carolina, last residence: Raleigh, Wake Co., North Carolina.⁴ He was enumerated on the census in Petersburg City County, Virginia (1930); Wake County, North Carolina (1940.) He was educated Graduated from Broughton High School, Duke University, and Union Theological Seminary.³ He was an Employed as a computer programmer with IBM.³ Beaman's was previously married to Benedetta Columbia Foppiani.

OBITUARY - The News & Observer; Raleigh, North Carolina; Sunday, June 26, 2005 (GenealogyBank.com)

RALEIGH -- Beaman T. White, 77, of Outlook Pointe, died on Saturday, June 25, 2005.
A native of Petersburg, VA he was born on February 28, 1928 to the late Hayes MacMurry and Laura Leigh Twitty White. Mr. White was raised in Raleigh, NC and graduated from Broughton High School, Duke University, and Union Theological Seminary. He was employed as a computer programmer with IBM. Before relocating to Raleigh in 1999, he resided in New York City and Alexandria, VA where he was active in his church and other civic organizations. As a youth, he earned the Eagle Scout award.
Mr. White is survived by his brother and sister-in-law, Dr. H. MacMurry White, Jr. and Betty White of Miami, FL; sister, Evelyn Ann "Lollie" W. Norris Holt of Charlottesville, VA; nieces and nephews, Laura N. Raynor, Lee Montague Norris, Ann N. O'Neal, all of Raleigh, NC, Judith W. Mangasarian of Miami, FL, Thomas A. Norris, III of Montgomery, AL, and 13 great-nieces and great-nephews.
A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 27, 2005 at Davidson Chapel, White Memorial Presbyterian Church, 1704 Oberlin Road, Raleigh. Reverend Gloria Johnson will officiate. Inurnment will follow at a later date in Historic Oakwood Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 4-6 p.m. on Sunday, June 26, 2005 at the home of special niece and caregiver, Laura and Hurley Raynor, 2511 White Oak Road, Raleigh.
The family wishes to express their sincere gratitude to the many loving and dedicated staff of Outlook Pointe, whose extraordinary care and compassion for "Uncle Be" will not be forgotten. Tributes may be made to the family at www.brownwynne.com.
Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, 300 Saint Mary's Street, Raleigh is in charge of arrangements. This marriage may not have lasted long. It was not mentioned in either Beaman's or Harriette's obituaries.

Citations

[S9020] Marriage Records - Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936 - 2014 (Ancestry.com)
[S12476] U.S., Social Security Application and Claims Index, 1936 - 2007 (Ancestry.com)
[S9470] Obituary - Beaman Twitty White
[S12399] Social Security Death Index, Source Medium: Book

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Hayes MacMurry White^1,2

M, #55757

Pedigree Link

Family: Laura Leigh Twitty

Son	Beaman Twitty White (b. 28 February 1928, d. 25 June 2005)

Citations

[S9020] Marriage Records - Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936 - 2014 (Ancestry.com)
[S9470] Obituary - Beaman Twitty White

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Laura Leigh Twitty^1,2

F, #55758

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Family: Hayes MacMurry White

Son	Beaman Twitty White (b. 28 February 1928, d. 25 June 2005)

Citations

[S9020] Marriage Records - Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936 - 2014 (Ancestry.com)
[S9470] Obituary - Beaman Twitty White

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Rocklin Tufts Behringer¹

M, #55759

Parents

Father	James William Behringer (b. 12 September 1918, d. 18 October 1976)
Mother	Harriette Virginia Rhawn (b. 18 December 1925, d. 14 November 2012)

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BASIC FACTS

Rocklin Tufts Behringer and Vida Unknown were married before 1973. He and Vida Unknown were divorced on 9 May 1973 in De Kalb, De Kalb Co., Illinois.² He and Nancy J. Pizer were married on 18 May 1990 in Dallas Co., Texas.³

Citations

[S12465] U.S., Chicago and North Western Railroad Employment Records, 1935 - 1970 (Ancestry.com)
[S4202] Divorce Announcement - The Daily Chronicle; De Kalb, Illinois; Wednesday, June 6, 1973; Page 4
[S9011] Marriage Records - Texas, Marriage Index, 1824 - 2014 (Ancestry.com)

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Nancy J. Pizer¹

F, #55760

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BASIC FACTS

Nancy J. Pizer and Rocklin Tufts Behringer were married on 18 May 1990 in Dallas Co., Texas.¹

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[S9011] Marriage Records - Texas, Marriage Index, 1824 - 2014 (Ancestry.com)

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Frank Henry Behringer¹

M, #55761

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Family: Esther M. Tufts

Son	James William Behringer+ (b. 12 September 1918, d. 18 October 1976)

BASIC FACTS

Frank Henry Behringer had reference number 56078.

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[S6262] Genealogy prepared by jessicasky71 (Ancestry.com)

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Esther M. Tufts¹

F, #55762

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Family: Frank Henry Behringer

Son	James William Behringer+ (b. 12 September 1918, d. 18 October 1976)

BASIC FACTS

Esther M. Tufts had reference number 56079.

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[S6262] Genealogy prepared by jessicasky71 (Ancestry.com)

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Paul Longstreth Fussell, Jr. PhD¹

M, #55763, b. 22 March 1924, d. 23 May 2012

Parents

Father	Paul Longstreth Fussell
Mother	Wilhma Wilson Sill

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BASIC FACTS

Paul Longstreth Fussell, Jr. PhD, was born on 22 March 1924 in Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., California. He and Harriette Virginia Rhawn were married after 1980. He died in 2010, at age ~86.¹ He died on 23 May 2012, at age 88, in Medford, Jackson Co., Oregon.

Paul Longstreth Fussell, Jr. PhD, had reference number 56080. He was a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, author and critic (see obituary.)^1,2 He was enumerated on the census in Los Angeles County, California (1930, 1940.) He was educated Earned bachelor of arts degree at Pomona College (1947); earned a masters and a doctorate in English at Harvard.² World War II, U.S. Army, European Theater, awarded the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.² Paul was previously married to Betty Ellen Harper. They had children: Rosaland Fussell and Sam Wilson Fussell.

OBITUARY - By BRUCE WEBER, MAY 23, 2012

Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88
Paul Fussell, the wide-ranging, stingingly opinionated literary scholar and cultural critic whose admiration for Samuel Johnson, Kingsley Amis and the Boy Scout Handbook and his withering scorn for the romanticization of war, the predominance of television and much of American society were dispensed in more than 20 books, died on Wednesday in Medford, Ore. He was 88.
His stepson Cole Behringer said he died of natural causes in the long-term care facility where he had spent the last two years.
From the 1950s into 1970s, Mr. Fussell followed a conventional academic path, teaching and writing on literary topics, specializing in 18th-century British poetry and prose. But his career changed in 1975, when he published “The Great War and Modern Memory,” a monumental study of World War I and how its horrors fostered a disillusioned modernist sensibility.
“The Great War,” a work that drew on Mr. Fussell’s own bloody experience as an infantryman during World War II, won both the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the National Book Award for Arts and Letters.
Fussell’s influence was huge, Vincent B. Sherry wrote in “The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War.” “The book’s ambition and popularity move interpretation of the war from a relatively minor literary and historical specialization to a much more widespread cultural concern. His claims for the meaning of the war are profound and far-reaching; indeed, some have found them hyperbolic. Yet, whether in spite of or because of the enormity of his assertions, Fussell has set the agenda for most of the criticism that has followed him.”
The lavish praise and commercial success of “The Great War” transformed Mr. Fussell into a public intellectual, or perhaps more accurately a public curmudgeon; he crabbed, for instance, about Graham Greene’s “inability to master English syntax.” Mr. Fussell brought an erudition, a gift for readable prose, a willingness to offend and, as many critics noted, a whiff of snobbery to subjects like class, clothing, the dumbing down of American culture and the literature of travel.
“Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars” (1980) examined a tradition in writing rarely examined by scholars, and it was hailed for its critical acumen, though it also includes a rant against tourists and tourism, which he decries as the antithesis of ennobling travel and the bane of real travelers.
“ ‘Abroad’ is an exemplary piece of criticism,” Jonathan Raban wrote on the cover of The New York Times Book Review. “It is immensely readable. It bristles with ideas. It disinters a real lost masterpiece from the library stacks. It admits a whole area of writing — at last! — to its proper place in literary history. Its general thesis is, I think, wrongheaded, even mean, but Mr. Fussell argues it with such force and clarity that he makes it a pleasure to quarrel with him.”
In “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System” (1983), he divided American society into nine strata — from the idle rich (“the top out-of-sight”) to the institutionalized and imprisoned (“the bottom out-of-sight”) — and offered a comprehensive and often witty tour through the observable habits of each.
“Not smoking at all is very upper-class,” he wrote, “but in any way calling attention to one’s abstinence drops one to middle-class immediately.”
In “BAD: Or, the Dumbing of America” (1991), he offered an alphabetically organized jeremiad against everything “phony, clumsy, witless, untalented, vacant or boring” in this country “that many Americans can be persuaded is genuine, graceful, bright or fascinating.”
“Dismal food is bad,” he wrote. “Dismal food pretentiously served in a restaurant associated with the word ‘gourmet’ is BAD. Being alert to this distinction is a large part of the fun of being alive today, in a moment teeming with raucously overvalued emptiness and trash.”
Paul Fussell Jr., was born into an affluent family in Pasadena, Calif., on March 22, 1924. His father was a prominent lawyer. Paul attended Pomona College, from which he was drafted by the Army in 1943. Too late for the Allied invasion at Normandy, he nevertheless saw brutal action in Europe, where, in southeastern France, at age 20, he lay wounded while men under his command were being killed in an artillery barrage.
“Before that day was over I was sprayed with the contents of a soldier’s torso when I was lying behind him and he knelt to fire at a machine-gun holding us up; he was struck in the heart and out of the holes in the back of his field jacket flew little clouds of blood, tissue and powdered cloth,” Mr. Fussell wrote in a 1982 essay in Harper’s Magazine called “My War.” “Near him another man raised himself to fire, but the machine gun caught him in the mouth, and as he fell he looked back at me with surprise, blood and teeth dribbling out onto the leaves.”
During his tour of duty he won the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts — he was wounded in the back and legs — and he emerged with a disdain for those who would justify wars, especially those who never fought. He hammered the point in “The Great War” and other books, including “Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War” (1989), a relentless chronicle of everything that was dreadful or repugnant about the soldiering experience in World War II, and a memoir, “Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic” (1996).
Returning to Pomona in 1945, he earned his bachelor of arts degree in 1947 and went on to Harvard to earn a master’s and a doctorate in English. At Harvard he developed a disdain for academia akin to what he felt for the military. “From the 1950s on,” he wrote in “Doing Battle,” “my presiding emotion was annoyance, often intensifying to virtually disabling anger.”
Nonetheless, he pursued an academic career, teaching English first at Connecticut College for Women, then at Rutgers University and finally at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his many academic books were “The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke” (1965), “Poetic Meter and Poetic Form” (1965; revised, 1979), and “Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing” (1971).
These were books, he would later recall, that he was “supposed to write.” Then it struck him that he might reach a wider audience by comparing the art and literature created in response to earlier wars with that inspired by World War I. What he discovered was a deep fissure between the romantic views of the past, which saw warfare as a stage for gallantry and heroism, and the disillusionment bred by the shocking slaughter and grim hopelessness of trench warfare, the hallmark of “the great war.”
World War I’s chief cultural product was irony, Mr. Fussell found, as illustrated by the muttering, cynical language of the men on the battle lines and their governments’ fatuous appeals to patriotism. Popular and serious culture afterward was infused with “the sense of absurdity, disjuncture and polarization, the loathing of duly constituted authorities,” as the critic Robert Hughes wrote in a Time magazine review.
“Every war is ironic, because every war is worse than expected,” Mr. Fussell wrote. “Every war constitutes an irony of situation, because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its ends. Eight million people were destroyed because two persons, the archduke Francis Ferdinand and his consort, had been shot.”
Mr. Fussell’s marriage to the former Betty Ellen Harper, who later became known for writing about food under the name Betty Fussell, ended in divorce. (Ms. Fussell, in a 1999 memoir, “My Kitchen Wars,” wrote scathingly about their marriage.) He is survived by their two children, Sam and Rosalind Fussell; his wife, Harriette Behringer; four stepchildren, Cole, Roclin, Marcy and Liese Behringer; a sister, Florence Fussell-Lind; 10 step-grandchildren and 6 step-great-grandchildren.
As caustic as Mr. Fussell could be about war (and many other things), he believed that the psychic wounds he sustained in battle were not only indelible but also beneficial.
“As I say in this new book of mine, not merely did I learn to kill,” he told Sheldon Hackney, who was then chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, in a 1996 interview about “Doing Battle.” “But I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing,” he added.
“You learn that you have much wider dimensions than you had imagined before you had to fight a war. That’s salutary. It’s well to know exactly who you are, so you can conduct the rest of your life properly.”.

Citations

[S10375] Obituary - Harriette Virginia (Rhawn) Behrenger-White-Fussell
[S11526] Obituary - Paul Longstreth Fussell, Jr., PhD

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Cole Franklin Behringer^1,2,3

M, #55764

Parents

Father	James William Behringer (b. 12 September 1918, d. 18 October 1976)
Mother	Harriette Virginia Rhawn (b. 18 December 1925, d. 14 November 2012)

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BASIC FACTS

Cole Franklin Behringer and Karen L. McCormick were married on 6 March 1982 in San Bernardino Co., California.²

Citations

[S10375] Obituary - Harriette Virginia (Rhawn) Behrenger-White-Fussell
[S8903] Marriage Records - California, "California Marriage Index, 1960 - 1985" (Ancestry.com), Source Medium: Book
[S12452] U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1 (Ancestry.com)

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Marcy Rhawn Behringer^1,2

F, #55765

Parents

Father	James William Behringer (b. 12 September 1918, d. 18 October 1976)
Mother	Harriette Virginia Rhawn (b. 18 December 1925, d. 14 November 2012)

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Citations

[S10375] Obituary - Harriette Virginia (Rhawn) Behrenger-White-Fussell
[S12558] Website - https://www.mylife.com

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Liese Ann Behringer¹

F, #55766

Parents

Father	James William Behringer (b. 12 September 1918, d. 18 October 1976)
Mother	Harriette Virginia Rhawn (b. 18 December 1925, d. 14 November 2012)

Pedigree Link

Citations

[S10375] Obituary - Harriette Virginia (Rhawn) Behrenger-White-Fussell

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Paul Longstreth Fussell¹

M, #55767

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Family: Wilhma Wilson Sill

Son	Paul Longstreth Fussell, Jr. PhD (b. 22 March 1924, d. 23 May 2012)

Citations

[S7425] Genealogy prepared by Theodore_Cutler (Ancestry.com)

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Wilhma Wilson Sill¹

F, #55768

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Family: Paul Longstreth Fussell

Son	Paul Longstreth Fussell, Jr. PhD (b. 22 March 1924, d. 23 May 2012)

Citations

[S7425] Genealogy prepared by Theodore_Cutler (Ancestry.com)

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Henry Jacob Broening^1,2

M, #55769

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Family: Kathryn Petre

Son	Henry Jacob Broening, Jr. (b. 8 June 1859, d. 10 May 1940)

BASIC FACTS

Henry Jacob Broening had reference number 56086.

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[S4980] Find A Grave (Internet), Source Medium: Book
[S6142] Genealogy prepared by Jaclyn June Fox (Ancestry.com)

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Daniel Zebedee Powling Householder¹

M, #55770

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Family: Georgianna Virginia Lusby

Son	Samuel Lusby Householder (b. 29 September 1887)

BASIC FACTS

Daniel Zebedee Powling Householder had reference number 56087.

Citations

[S5266] Genealogy prepared by barbieg821 (Ancestry.com)

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Georgianna Virginia Lusby¹

F, #55771

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Family: Daniel Zebedee Powling Householder

Son	Samuel Lusby Householder (b. 29 September 1887)

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Georgianna Virginia Lusby had reference number 56088.

Citations

[S5266] Genealogy prepared by barbieg821 (Ancestry.com)

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Karen L. McCormick¹

F, #55772

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Karen L. McCormick and Cole Franklin Behringer were married on 6 March 1982 in San Bernardino Co., California.¹

Citations

[S8903] Marriage Records - California, "California Marriage Index, 1960 - 1985" (Ancestry.com), Source Medium: Book

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Vida Unknown¹

F, #55773

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Vida Unknown and Rocklin Tufts Behringer were married before 1973. She and Rocklin Tufts Behringer were divorced on 9 May 1973 in De Kalb, De Kalb Co., Illinois.¹

Citations

[S4202] Divorce Announcement - The Daily Chronicle; De Kalb, Illinois; Wednesday, June 6, 1973; Page 4

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Warren Elwood Hampton^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}

M, #55774, b. 4 December 1889, d. 30 May 1966

Parents

Father	Henry Elwood Hampton (b. 1862)
Mother	Jane Elizabeth Kellam

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Family: Myrtle M. Franklin (b. April 1893, d. 1913)

Daughter

Doris Franklin Hampton+ (b. 2 August 1911, d. 28 August 2004)

BASIC FACTS

Warren Elwood Hampton was born on 4 December 1889 in Canton, Baltimore City Co., Maryland.⁸ He was born on 4 December 1889 in Baltimore, Baltimore City Co., Maryland.³ He and Myrtle M. Franklin were married about 24 December 1910 in Baltimore City Co., Maryland.¹ He died on 30 May 1966, at age 76, in Baltimore, Baltimore City Co., Maryland.⁹ He was buried in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City Co., Maryland.¹⁰

Warren Elwood Hampton had reference number 56091. He was a Stenographer - railroad (1910); agent for the Baltimore City Board of Trade (1920); employed by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1942); agent - industrial (1930); freight clerk - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1940.)^3,4,5,6,7 He was enumerated on the census in Baltimore City County, Maryland (1900 - 1920); Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (1930); Baltimore City County, Maryland (1940.) His Social Security Number was 215-01-5218, issued: Maryland, last residence: Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland.¹¹ On a couple of documents Warren's middle name appears to be spelled, "Ellwood." I think this is a transcription error. In any case, by the time he filled out his World War II Draft Registration Card, he was spelling it, "Elwood."

In June of 1917, on Warren's World War I Draft Registration Card, he says he is a widower with one child to support. Shortly after filling out that card, Warren married Ernestine Marie Schroder. They had five children.

OBITUARY - The Evening Sun; Baltimore, Maryland; Tuesday, May 31, 1966; Page 40 (Newspapers.com)

HAMPTON
On May 30, 1966, WARREN E., of 3510 Langrehr road, beloved husband of Ernestine Marie Hampton (nee schroder), and father of Warren E. Hampton, Mrs. Doris Striely, Mrs. Virginia Sentz, Mrs. Juanita Murray, Mrs. Bertha Perkins, and Mrs. Loretta Bowen.
Funeral from the Ellsworth Armacost Funeral Chapel, 4600 Liberty Heights avenue on Thursday at 11 A.M. Interment in Loudon Park Cemetery. Visiting hours from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M.

OBITUARY - Ernestine Marie (Schroder) Hampton (second wife of Warren Elwood Hampton); The Evening Sun; Baltimore, Maryland; Wednesday, November 12, 1969; Page 74 (Newspapers.com)

On November 10, 1969, ERNESTINE M., of 2009 Ruxton road, beloved wife of the late Warren E. Hampton and mother of Warren E. Hampton, Doris Streily, Virginia Sentz, Juanita Murray, Bertha Perkins and Loretta Bowers. Also survived by 13 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral from the Armacost Funeral Chapel, 4600 Liberty Heights road on Friday at 11 A.M. Interment at Loudon Park Cemetery. Visiting hours from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M.

Note: Doris Franklin (Hampton) Streily is Ernestine's step-daughter. Her married name is spelled correctly in this obituary.

GRAVE MARKER

FATHER
WARREN E. HAMPTON
1889 - 1966. MARRIAGE LICENSE - The Baltimore Sun; Baltimore, Maryland; Sunday, December 25, 1910; Page 9 (Newspapers.com)

Issued by the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas.
The following marriage licenses were issued in this city yesterday, the persons residing in Baltimore unless otherwise stated:
HAMPTON -- FRANKLIN. -- Warren E. Hampton, 21; Myrtle M. Franklin, 18. Applicant, Edward H. Miller, 1423 William street. He was christened on 5 April 1890 in Holy Evangelists Chapel, Baltimore, Baltimore City Co., Maryland.⁸

Citations

[S8875] Marriage License - The Baltimore Sun; Baltimore, Maryland; Sunday, December 25, 1910; Page 9
[S6240] Genealogy prepared by Jennifer Franklin (Ancestry.com)
[S12482] U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (Ancestry.com)
[S866] 1910 Census, Maryland, Baltimore City County
[S1259] 1920 Census, Maryland, Baltimore City County
[S1902] 1930 Census, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County
[S2177] 1940 Census, Maryland, Baltimore City County
[S2738] Birth Records - Maryland, Maryland Births and Christenings Index, 1662 - 1911 (Ancestry.com)
[S5737] Genealogy prepared by debraley1963 (Ancestry.com)
[S12085] Obituary - Warren Elwood Hampton
[S12399] Social Security Death Index, Source Medium: Book

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Lorraine Margaret Unger^1,2,3

F, #55775, b. 25 November 1919, d. 31 January 1999

Parents

Father	George C. Unger
Mother	Frances V. Shepke

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Family: Russell Hampton Franklin (b. 28 March 1915, d. 6 August 1992)

Son	James Unger Franklin+
Son	Thomas Unger Franklin+ (b. 9 February 1945, d. 8 April 2016)

BASIC FACTS

Lorraine Margaret Unger was born on 25 November 1919 in Baltimore, Baltimore City Co., Maryland.¹ She and Russell Hampton Franklin were married on 10 February 1940.^3,4 She died on 31 January 1999, at age 79.¹

Lorraine Margaret Unger had reference number 56092. She was enumerated on the census in Baltimore City County, Maryland (1940.) She was a Saleslady - department store (1940.)³ OBITUARY - The Baltimore Sun; Baltimore, Maryland; Wednesday, February 3, 1999; Main Edition, Page 23 (Newspapers.com)

FRANKLIN, Lorraine
On January 31, 1999, LORRAINE FRANKLIN (nee Unger) of Catonsville, beloved wife of the late Russell H. Franklin, devoted mother of James U. Franklin, wife Carol (nee Kasten) and Thomas U. Franklin, wife Barbara (nee Podolsky), loving grandmother of Gregory J. wife Marrianne, Jarrett T., J. Cori, and Mark D. Franklin, dear sister of Frances Dawson, husband William, Lucille Wachsmuth, husband Charles of Catonsville.
Relatives and friends may call at the Loudon Park Funeral Home, 3620 Wilkens Avenue on Tuesday 2 to4 and 7 to 9 P.M. and Wednesday beginning at 10 A.M. where services will be held at 11 A.M. Entombment Loudon Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Asociation, 3120 Timanus Lane, Suite 106, Baltimore, MD 21244-2883.

Citations

[S12476] U.S., Social Security Application and Claims Index, 1936 - 2007 (Ancestry.com)
[S11815] Obituary - Russell Hampton Franklin
[S2177] 1940 Census, Maryland, Baltimore City County
[S6240] Genealogy prepared by Jennifer Franklin (Ancestry.com)