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Show Freeman Pendleton Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel Freeman Luke Pendleton recently re-cently was promoted from thr rank of major to lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. Lt. Col. Pendleton is a son of John II. and the late Hazel L. Pendleton of Parowan. He was born in Heber City in 1928, the youngest of six children, chil-dren, four girls and two boys He spent his childhood and youth in Parowan except for two years 1942-45 in Cedar City Ci-ty while attending school. In 1945 he graduated from the Parowan High School and that fall entered the University Universi-ty of Utah as a pre-medical student. This course he pursued pur-sued for two years. At that time he received a congressional congress-ional appointment to West Point Military Academy. He pursued this course for four years and graduated, the first West Point graduate from Southern Utah, in June, 1952, with a B.S. degree in civil engineering. en-gineering. Immediately following graduation grad-uation he was married to Joan Sutton of New York. His first assignment following graduation gradua-tion was three years in Leghorn, Leg-horn, Italy. His next assignment assign-ment for a similar period with an assistant profesorship in Military Science and Tactics, was to the Washington-Jefferson College at Washington, Pa. In 1960 after two years of graduate work he received his master's degree in electrical engineering. The next two years were spent in Formosa as a communications commu-nications engineer. From there he went to Washington, D. C. in the capacity of technical analyst and served for three years. In November, 1965 he went to Permasenns, in Germany Germ-any as commanding officer of a Primary Communications Relay Re-lay Center for Europe. Freeman has been fortunate in keeping his family with him. They have three children, two boys and a girl. However on June 4, 1965, in Long Island, Is-land, they lost their oldest boy by drowing. |