James A. Stuart Jr.

James A. Stuart Jr. MACHIPONGO - Retired U.S. Army Col. James Austin Stuart Jr., 85, husband of Mary Hamilton Walker Stuart and a resident of Machipongo for more than 35 years, died at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. Born on Parris Island, S.C., he was the oldest son of U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General James A. Stuart and Sara Raby Cross Stuart. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., in 1945 and served in airborne infantry, including combat and senior general staff and technical position for 24 years. Following military retirement and employment as a laboratory test electronics sales engineer, he accompanied his wife on her return to the Eastern Shore in 1975. Here he remained active as a school teacher and administrator for more than 22 years at Broadwater Academy and as lay leader and sometimes Warden of Hungars Episcopal Church. He also served for three years as dean of the Eastern Shore Convocation of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia and was a member of its Executive Board. He was one of the founding directors of the Eastern Shore Rural Health Systems Inc., and was honored as the 1980 Kiwanis "Man of the Year." He also served as a director of the Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce, and was a past president of the Exmore Rotary Club. Memorial services will be held at Hungars Episcopal Church Saturday, Dec. 4, at 1 p.m. with the Very Reverend Mr. Robert G. Johnson and the Rev. Mr. Paul Walker officiating. Other than his wife he is survived by five children: James Austin Stuart III and his wife, Keak of Seattle and Bangkok, Mary Randolph Stuart of Exmore, Sara Cross Stuart and her husband Karl Stiegelbauer of Church Neck, Amy Carroll Stuart Larson and her husband James of Lakewood, Colo., Andrew Walker Stuart and his wife Sarilee of Toledo, Ohio; five grandchildren, James Matthew Stuart, Karen Ann Larson, Mary Alison Stiegelbauer, Thomas Andrew Stuart and Elizabeth Anne Stuart and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by two brothers: U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Jerome Carroll Stuart, who was killed in action in Korea in 1952 and U.S. Marine Corps Col. Thomas Rodney Stuart, who died in 1995. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Broadwater Academy in the names of James G. Hanes or William B. Bynum, P.O. Box 546, Exmore, VA 23350; to the Hungars Episcopal Church Restoration Fund, P.O. Box 367, Eastville, VA 23347; or to a charity of choice. Family and friends may sign the guest book at www.hollandfuneral home.net. Arrangements by the B.D. Holland Funeral Home in Nassawadox, Va.