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| | George Smith Patton, Major General, United States Army |
 | | General Patton, who retired from the Army in 1980, had been in poor health for years because of complications from hip surgery and other ailments, his wife, Joanne, said. |
 | | General Patton was posted to bases near Washington three times and, at the time of his retirement from the Army, lived in Bethesda. |
 | | Patton was interred in Section 34 of Arlington National Cemetery in a simple pine box made by the sisters of the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn., from trees grown on the property. |
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