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| | Hugh Ernest Switzer, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army |
 | | Hugh Ernest Switzer, 89, a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who was post commander of Arlington Hall Station in the mid-1960s, died Aug 16, 2006, of an infection contracted during treatment for cancer at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. |
 | | Colonel Switzer was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi, the fifth of 10 children of a sharecropper father and a mother who was half-Cherokee. |
 | | Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Ruth Otto Switzer of Arlington; six children, Richard Switzer of Starkville, Mississippi, Donald Switzer of Cleveland, Diane Switzer of Bedford, New Hampshire, Lenore Odom of Savannah, Georgia, Gary Switzer of Manassas and Karen Switzer-Neff of Acton, Massachusetts; two sisters; one brother; and nine grandchildren. |
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