Citadel Alumni Deaths

Allan McAlpin Heyward, 87, of Richmond, VA, died November 16, 2009 after
a brief illness. He is survived by his wife, Marianna Chapin Marshall
Heyward; his children, Allan McAlpin Heyward Jr. and Virginia Randolph
Heyward of Richmond, Roberta Guerard Heyward Perkins of Reading,
England, and Wayne Marshall Heyward of Sebattus, Maine; seven
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He was born May 14, 1922 in
Savannah, Georgia, and graduated from The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. He
was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the
Second World War and the occupation of Japan. He was recalled to service
in the Korean War, and served in Korea. He was a civil engineer and
worked for many years for Virginia Engineering Company (later Basic
Construction) in Newport News. In 1964, he was appointed by then
Governor Harrison to serve on the Virginia Board of Conservation and
Economic Development, to which he was reappointed in 1968. He left
Virginia to work for Daniel International in Greenville, S.C. He then
moved to Richmond in the early 1970s while with Daniel International, to
oversee construction of the Philip Morris cigarette manufacturing plant
in Chesterfield. In 1974, he founded Heyward Construction Company (which
became Heyward & Lee Construction), from which he retired. He was an
avid and active sailor and outdoorsman. He was a member and past
Commodore of the Southwest Harbor Fleet in Maine, and past president of
Deep Run Hunt Club. He was a member and past President-General of the
Society of Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of
Independence, and a member of the Society of Colonial Wars and of the
Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He was also a
member of the Commonwealth Club, the Fox Hill Beagles and the Farmington
Beagles in Charlottesville. He was a member of All Saints Episcopal
Church in Richmond and St. John and St. Andrew Episcopal Church in
Southwest Harbor, Maine. His remains will be interred at St. Bonaventure
Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.

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