WILLIAM MULVIHILL

MULVIHILL, Lt. Col. William Matthew "Bill,", U.S. Army (Ret.), 74, of Richmond, died November 28, 2011. He was preceded in death by his brother, Dr. Phil Mulvihill. He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Jane; daughter, Anne Gillon and her husband,Gary, of Chesterfield; son, William M. Mulvihill II and his wife, Heather, of Bon Air and their two boys, James and Matthew; daughter, Nancy Mulvihill of Bon Air and her daughter, Victoria; sisters, Joanne Franklin of Sylvan Lake, Mich. and Cathy Trusz and her husband, John, of Lancaster, Pa.; brothers, Matt Mulvihill and his wife, Karen, of Greensburg, Pa. and Tim Mulvihill and his wife, Elaine, of Indiana, Pa.; and his sister-in-law, Ellen Mulvihill of Camp Hill, Pa. He was born in Robindale, Pa., a coal mining town in western Pennsylvania. He graduated from Indiana State Teachers College in Indiana, Pa. (now IUP) and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Reserves in the Quartermaster Corps in 1959 at Ft. Lee. While in the Reserves at Ft. Lee, he met his wife, Jane that first Saturday of March 1960, and they were married in September of 1962, beginning his exciting career together. Then in 1962, he accepted a Full Commission in the Artillery stationed at Ft. Sill, Okla. He was stationed in Hanau, Germany, Frankfurt, Germany, Korea, New Orleans, Vietnam, the Pentagon, Fort Ord and the Monterey Peninsula, Germany again, and finally back to the U.S. Thanks to the Army, while in New Orleans he attended Tulane University and received his MBA. He joined the Knights of Columbus while in California and became active again after moving back to Richmond. He was State Deputy from 1995 to 1996. He loved the Knights and all it did. He later became the Master of the 4th Degree for the State of Virginia, Vice Supreme Master for Calvert Province of the 4th Degree and then a Regional Program Consultant for the Supreme Council in New Haven, Conn. He was a life long volunteer everywhere he lived. With the Commonwealth Catholic Charities, Bill co-shared the Volunteer of the Year Award in April of 2011. The family will receive friends 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Bliley's-Central, 3801 Augusta Avenue, where a Rosary Service will be held 7:30 p.m. Thursday. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church, 2700 Dolfield Road, Richmond, Va. 23235. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, Kan. 66675-8517 or Virginia Knights of Columbus Charities, Inc./VKCCI, PSD Richard Aleksy, VKCCI Treasurer, 8203 Claremont St., Manassas, Va. 20110-3609 or a charity of your choice.


This obituary was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.