Thomas B. Ellsworth Jr.

ELLSWORTH, Thomas B. Jr. Captain Thomas B. Ellsworth, Jr., 68, retired Naval Officer and business executive, died from respiratory failure on December 16, 2007 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA. Captain Ellsworth was born in Norwalk. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1961 and in 1984 attended George Washington University where he received a Master's Degree in Public Administration. In 1962 Captain Ellsworth attended the U. S. Naval Officer Candidate School and was commissioned an Ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve. He saw tours of duty on USS Investigator, USS Protector, and the USS Mahan. Captain Ellsworth was designated a Restricted Line (Intelligence) Officer in 1970, at which time he reported to Naval Reconnaissance and Technical Support Center in Suitland, Maryland. Captain Ellsworth's subsequent intelligence assignments included duty as an intelligence advisor with the Naval Advisory Group, Vietnam; Assistant U. S. Naval Attaché, Moscow; duty on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Naval Forces Europe in London; Commander Second Fleet staff; and as Assistant for Intelligence Plot in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Captain Ellsworth served as the Deputy Director of Intelligence, United States European Command (Stuttgart, Germany) from 1986 - 1989, and retired in September 1992 as Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence for Soviet Studies. A recognized expert in the history of merchant shipping, Captain Ellsworth was employed by Booze-Allen-Hamilton as a National Security Advisor. Captain Ellsworth was married to the former Adele Bemus of San Antonio, Texas. He is survived by sister Dr. Rev. Lida Ellsworth of Bakewell, Derbyshire (U.K.), son Thomas Ellsworth, III, of Raleigh, NC, and daughter Laura Ellsworth of Los Angeles, CA, by step-daughters Marti Hope Gonzales of Minneapolis, MN, Linda Hope, of San Francisco, CA, and Karen Hope, of Baltimore, MD, and by grand-daughters Caitlin Hume and Ericka Hume, also of Baltimore, MD.