THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
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DATE: Thursday, April 6, 1995 TAG: 9504060290
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Cmdr. George Frederick Halla, USN (Ret.), 78, of Virginia Beach, died April 4, 1995, in a local hospital.
Cmdr. Halla was born in Troy, N.Y., on Feb. 2, 1917. He was the son of the late George C.S. Halla and Anna Rickerson Halla and was the widower of Mary Philbrick Neill.
He attended Public School (NU)16 in Troy, N.Y., and the Albany Academy, Albany, N.Y. He received his B.S. in Math from Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., in 1938 and his M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1940. While at Harvard, he attended the U.S. Navy Supply Corps School, and the Army-Navy War Adjustment Officers Course. He also attended the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. from 1952 to 1953, and was the instructor in Logistics, Command & Staff Course from 1958 to 1961.
Cmdr. Halla's military service started with Company B, 1st Quartermaster Battalion, with the Massachusetts State Guard from July 1, 1940, to March 13, 1942. He served in the U.S. Navy from March 13, 1942 to June 30, 1967, and retired as Commander of the Supply Corps. U.S. Navy. Decorations include the National Defense Service Medal awarded twice, the American Campaign Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two stars (Empress Augusta Bay plus one Submarine sinking), the World War II Victory Medal, and awarded twice the U.S. Joint Service Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters. He was also the Comptroller, Joint Staff, U.S. Military Mission for Aid to Turkey (JUSMMAT), Advisor to the Comptroller, Turkish Ministry of Defense and Turkish General Staff from 1961 to 1964.
His civilian employment included Materials Manager, Aerosol Techniques, Inc. (ATI), Eastern Division, Milford, Conn., from August 1967 to September 1968, Supply Manager for the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon, from September 1968 to July 1972, and Fiscal Management Specialist and Financial Planner for the City of Norfolk, Va. from March 1973 to October 1980.
Cmdr. Halla was a life member of the U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis, Md., The Retired Officers Association (TROA), and the Hampton Roads Chapter of The Retired Officers Association.
Survivors include one daughter, Lydia Anne Halla Adams of Moorehead, Ky.; one son, Neill Rickerson Halla of Virginia Beach; and one grandson, Ryan Z. Adams of Moorehead, Ky.
A chapel service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Laskin Road Chapel, by Chaplain Martin J. Bagay. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery with full military honors. Vistation will be in the funeral home this evening from 7 to 9 p.m.
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