Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 07:00:49 :
Independent Journal
Tuesday, January 22, 1980
AVERY M. COCHRAN
Services for retired Army Col. Avery M. Cochran, a West Point graduate and San Rafael resident, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday at the Post Chapel of the Presidio, San Francisco.
Cochran, 70, died Sunday at a Palo Alto hospital.
A member of a longtime Army family, Cochran graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1932 and was on active duty in the Army for 30 years.
In 1941, while stationed in Alaska, he led an eight-man dog sled expedition from Haines to Burwash Landing, testing warfare equipment.
During World War II, he served in combat with the 88th Infantry Division in Italy. From 1952 to 1955 he was Army attaché to Finland where he was awarded the Order of the White Rose by the Finnish government.
He was a member of the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, an honary (sic) member of the San Rafael Rotary Club and a member of the 88th Infantry Division Association, California and national branches.
He is survived by his wife Anne; two daughters, Anne MacLeod of Fremont and Constance Greenfield of San Rafael and seven grandchildren.
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A Death Notice in the Jan. 23 issue of the paper names his grandchildren: Gordon Avery, Douglas, William and James MacLeod, Catherine, Elizabeth and Anne Greenfield. He was the brother of Mrs. R. J. West, Mrs. R. Blair Maddox and the late Melville A. Cochran of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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