WARTHEN, William Troy Robins

William married HORRIS TRAPNELL, Alexa Marilla Jasha [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harry married TRAPNELL, Sally Berkeley [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married TRAPNELL, Emily Marilla [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Religion: Episcopalian
• Residence: 1910, Hackensack Ward 4, Bergen, New Jersey

William married GORDON, Sally Berkeley on 29 Mar 1930 in 1001 Floyd Ave, Richmond, VA, USA. Sally (daughter of GORDON, Thomas Christian and ROBINS, Ruth Nelson) was born on 26 Mar 1910 in Richmond, VA, USA; died on 16 May 2002 in Goochland, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Religion: Episcopalian

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From NY Times:

Trapnell - Gordon

Richmond, Va., March 29 - The wedding of Miss Sally Berkeley Gordon, daughter of Mrs. Thomas Christian Gordon of 1001 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, and William Holmes Trapnell, son of Joseph Trapnell of Chatham, N.J., formerly of Charles Town, W. Va., took place this evening at the home of the bride, with Dr. Richard Trapnell of Norfolk, uncle of the bridegroom, assisted by Dr. Beverley D. Tucker Jr. of this city, performing the ceremony.

Mrs. Homer L. Ferguson Jr., sister of the bride, was matron of honor, and the Misses Anne Hill Brown and Helen Smith of ROchester, N. Y., were bridesmaids. The bridegroom had as his best man his brother, Franklin Trapnell of Baltimore.

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• Also Known As: Bucky / Buck
• Education: Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins University
• Obituary: From The Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2014: Franklin Waters "Buck" Trapnell Jr., a retired Army colonel who served in Vietnam, died of a heart attack May 31 while visiting family near Richmond, Va. The former Roland Park resident was 77. Born in Baltimore and raised on Lake Avenue in Cedarcroft, he was the son of Franklin Waters Trapnell, an attorney who became an Office of Strategic Services and Central Intelligence Agency officer. His mother was Emily Willson Rieman Smith, a homemaker and volunteer. According to an autobiographical sketch, he spent much of his youth in Berlin, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, after World War II during the military occupation. "He routinely, and unofficially, assisted his father with his intelligence work," said his granddaughter, Alexa Warthen of Philomont, Va. "He was a courier, sabotaged car batteries, debriefed refugees, changed out wiretap batteries and collected wiretap recordings. "He used the Vienna city sewer system to do this work. He stood guard for East German defectors and used his father's pistol. He had an unorthodox upbringing and developed a remarkably open mind and had an exceptional grasp of adaptive tactics." After returning to Baltimore, he enrolled at Polytechnic Institute but left school to join the Maryland National Guard and serve in the 29th Division. He later studied at the Johns Hopkins University and was acting head of its Reserve Officers Training Corps for a year. After serving in the National Guard, he enlisted in the Army in 1961 and trained as a light infantryman and attended parachute school. While at Fort Bragg, he completed Special Forces qualification as a weapons specialist. He also trained in communications, demolitions, medical work and intelligence. After attending Officer Candidate School, he was commissioned as an infantry officer. He served in Vietnam from July 1965 to August 1966 and participated in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley during the Pleiku campaign. "He was a hard-nosed, tactically savvy commander and a genuinely caring mentor," said his granddaughter, who is a former Army captain and flier. She said that that during the second half of his first Vietnam tour, he served as company executive officer and as company commander. While on duty in Vietnam, Colonel Trapnell was photographed and quoted in a 1966 Baltimore Sun article. "We've been here a week, and I guess we're going to be here another," he said in the article, which covered U.S. aircraft bombing a jungle site. Colonel Trapnell returned to the U.S. and became an intelligence officer in the 82nd Airborne Division. He then volunteered for a second tour in Vietnam. "The locals trusted him, and would bring their gold savings and valuables for his safekeeping whenever a Viet Cong attack was in the offing," his granddaughter said. "He in turn recognized the situation as a harbinger of impending attack; he used it to prepare for subsequent attacks. He would later return the valuables." From 1982 to 1984, he commanded the 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry in the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood and headed a Bradley Fighting Vehicle training team. Colonel Trapnell taught military science at Hopkins and oversaw ROTC programs at Loyola University Maryland and Towson University, among other colleges in the Mid-Atlantic. He retired in 1990. "He had a near flawless memory and made an unforgettable first impression," said his granddaughter. In retirement, he moved from homes on Wyndhurst Avenue and Overlook Place in North Baltimore to a home he designed and built in Manassas, Va. He cleared the land and worked on the house's construction. "He was the patriarch of the family, and he advised and coordinated many family investments," his granddaughter said. He also built, owned and operated cellphone towers from West Virginia to Wyoming. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity, 419 Cedarcroft Road, where he had been a member. In addition to his granddaughter, survivors include his wife of 55 years, the former Elizabeth Florence Rich Flannery, who performed with the Spotlighters and at the Four Corners Theatre; a daughter, Emily Marilla Trapnell Coryell of Baltimore; a stepson, Michael Flannery of Baltimore; two stepdaughters, Colise Medved of Washington and Agnes Collins Flannery of Walnut Creek, Calif.; seven other grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
• Occupation: US Army Colonel
• Religion: Episcopalian
• Cause of Death: Heart attack
• Military: 1965-1966, Vietnam

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Professional Army Officer. Served two tours in Viet Nam, the first in 1965 in the First Cavalry air mobil unit. Retired 1989 as Colonel.

Military:
Two tours of duty 1965-66, spent career in Army, retiring as Colonel in 1989.

Franklin married RICH, Elizabeth Florence on 26 Jun 1957. Elizabeth (daughter of RICH, Charles and RICHARDSON, Edwina) was born on 10 Nov 1921 in Perryville, Cecil, MD, USA; died on 6 Jul 2015 in Manassas, Prince William, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Obituary: From the Baltimore Sun Elizabeth Flannery Trapnell, a founding member of the Spotlighters Theatre company, who had been wardrobe mistress at the old Painters Mill Music Fair, died of cancer Monday at her Manassas, Va., home. The former Roland Park resident was 93. Elizabeth Florence Rich was born in Perryville, the daughter of Charles Rich and Edwina Richardson Rich. She lived near Bon Secours Hospital in West Baltimore and was a 1939 graduate of Western High School. She won a scholarship to the Maryland Institute College of Art and studied drawing and painting with Hans Schuler. In 1942, she married Collins Arthur Flannery, the 1934 South Atlantic heavyweight boxing champion. After living in Norfolk, Va., and New York City, the couple returned to Baltimore and lived on Calvert Street in Charles Village. Mr. Flannery died in an automobile accident in 1950. To support her family, she worked at the Belvedere Hotel and Johns Hopkins Hospital. She also was a substitute teacher at Chinquapin Middle School. For several summers in the 1960s, she was wardrobe mistress at Painters Mill in Owings Mills. Using Liz Rich as her stage name, she both directed and performed in the melodrama "The Drunkard" at the Four Corners Theatre in Jacksonville. She was an original member of the Spotlighters troupe at the Madison Apartments on St. Paul Street in Mount Vernon. She hosted the 1962 cast party for its premiere play, "Bus Stop," at her home on Wyndhurst Avenue. She later lived on Overlook Place near Lake Avenue. In 1963, she appeared in "Picnic," also with the company, which is now known as the Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre. "She was one of its pillars," said her daughter, Agnes Collins Flannery of Walnut Creek, Calif. "She acted or directed and worked behind the scenes." She went on to appear in the Spotlighters' "A Man for All Seasons." In 1964, she appeared in the Baltimore Actors' Theatre production of "Tom Sawyer" at the Peabody Concert Hall. In 1968, she wrote "Little Nell," a musical melodrama, with Ed Kellogg and Marilyn Lee. The work was performed at the Baltimore Cabaret Theater in the lobby of the Congress Hotel on West Franklin Street. She later performed it at a Rehoboth Beach, Del., summer theater. In 1955, she married Franklin Waters "Buck" Trapnell Jr., an Army colonel and tank specialist who ran the Johns Hopkins University Reserve Officers Training Program. "She easily made lasting friendships," said her son, Michael Flannery of Baltimore. "She befriended Peabody students who came to paint her house. They later became lifetime family members. She knew people from the theater or her walking organizations, and military wives. Even Hopkins students who had been in the ROTC classes visited until her death. As her children, we felt we were special because of who our mother was." "Wherever their military assignments took them, my mother never complained," said another daughter, Emily Marilla Trapnell Coryell of Manassas. "She told me she always found the best thing she could about a place and enjoyed it." Mrs. Trapnell enjoyed history and was a volunteer and docent for the Baltimore Museum of Art. When her husband was on assignment in Georgia, she became a volunteer at the William Scarbrough House in Savannah. She belonged to Volksmarch walking clubs, including the Baltimore Star-Spangled Steppers. Her son said she was an accomplished cook and owned a rolling pin that had belonged to her great-grandfather, who was a pastry chef in Lyon, France. She was a former member of SS. Philip and James Roman Catholic Church. A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Episcopal Church, 9325 West St. in Manassas. Graveside services will be held at noon Monday at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, 200 E. Padonia Road, Timonium. In addition to her son and daughters, survivors include another daughter, Colise Gerard Flannery Medved of Washington, D.C.; a brother, Charles Lee Rich of Kenosha, Wis.; eight grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren. Colonel Trapnell died last year.
• Occupation: Actress and director.
• Cause of Death: Cancer

Notes:

2015 obituary of Elizabeth has year of marriage as 1955, but no date provided.