Harry F. Broman

Lt. Col. Harry F. BROMAN Retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel Harry Frank Broman passed away in Bellevue on 21 September. He was 96 years old. Born in Los Angeles, Harry graduated from Seattle's Broadway High School in 1928. He received a BA from the University of Washington in architecture in 1935. He played on the freshman baseball team and was frosh coxswain at the UW where he affiliated with Kappa Sigma fraternity. While an ROTC cadet he was captain of the UW rifle team. He was a life member of the College Club in Seattle and was a member of the American Institute of Architects. After college he worked as an architect for Edwin J. Ivy in Seattle and rose to become a partner in the firm. He married Hilda Bernice Foley, known as "Booge", of Vancouver, British Columbia in 1932 and had two children, Barry and Jennifer. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the US Army in 1935 he served in World War II in the Army Air Corps as a glider pilot and received the Air Medal for his role in the airborne crossing of the Rhine River in 1945, the largest glider assault in history. Called back to military service for the Berlin Airlift and later the Korean War, Harry later received an MA in Civil Engineering and served as advisor to the Royal Thai Air Force in the lead up to the Vietnam War. Harry retired from the Air Force in 1965 and worked for the State of Washington as an architect for ten years. He is survived by his children, Barry (BJ) and Jennifer (Patrick) and three grandchildren: Theo Wieseke of Las Vegas, Seth Broman of Seattle, and Brendan Broman of Brooklyn, NY. He will be buried at the Tahoma National Cemetery with Booge who passed away in 1998. At Harry's request there will not be a memorial service. As he told his family, "I am going to look for Booge".