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Milton P. Warnock Manassas, VA QCWA # 13849 |
Milton Paul Warnock was born in January 1930 in rural northwest Georgia, the eldest of Arby and Bertha Warnock's three children. He attended the Berry School in Rome, Georgia where he worked in the dairy, and at the age of 16 drove the college shuttle bus. After graduating high school in 1947 Milt joined the Army Air Corps as a communications technician, and served in Ohio, Texas, and the territory of Alaska. He also had the distinction of serving during the transition of the Army Air Corps' into the United States Air Force. On his honorable discharge from the Air Force as a Sergeant in 1950, Milt worked as a Department of the Army civilian in the Pentagon, a radio operator for Eastern Airlines, and a broadcast engineer.
In 1955, at age 25, Milt joined the U.S. Department of State as a communications officer. His first posting was the Philippines, and his second was Tunisia, where he met and married his wife Marguerite. Together, Marguerite and Milt were posted in Ceylon -now Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Brazil, Iran, the Philippines (twice), and Washington, DC. Milt also traveled the world for temporary duty assignments, including to La Paz, Bolivia in support of embassy communications in the western hemisphere during the Cuban Missile Crisis. After retiring from government service in 1978, Milt worked in the private sector for ten years as a broadcast engineer and a charter employee of C-SPAN before finally fully embracing retirement. Milt would have told you that he "worked hard at retirement, resting on the weekends" for the rest of his life. In service to our nation and in his private life, Milt truly connected the world. A licensed amateur radio operator since 1953, Milt spoke with people around the globe and was an active member of the Ole Virginia Hams Amateur Radio Club for over thirty-five years. Some people may even know him better by his call sign N4SN than by his name. He was also a private pilot for much of his life and explored the world from the skies of his Foreign Service assignments.
Milt died at his home in Manassas, Virginia in December, 2017, finally rejoining Marguerite the love of his life for 44 years until her passing in 2003. They will be buried together in Fairfax Memorial Park.
Milt is survived by his son Tom Warnock and daughter-in-law Heather; his brother Dan Warnock, sister-in-law Nancy, and nephews Alan and Jay; his sister Sara Herndon, brother-in-law Buddy, and niece Lisa; and several grand-nieces and nephews.
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