Larry Gray Genebach passed away on the evening of June 21, 2014, a resident

of the retirement community of the Village at Orchard Ridge in Winchester,

Virginia.

He was born April 2, 1924 in Battle Creek, Michigan to Carleton Gray

Genebach and Elizabeth Smith Genebach. He attended Culver Military

Academy in Culver, Indiana, graduating in 1943. After Officer Candidate

School he was commissioned 2d Lieutenant at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Liaison basic flight training at Pittsburg, Kansas, advanced artillery training at

Fort Sill, and specialized flight training at Camp Bowie, Texas prepared him for

his arrival in the European Theatre of Operation in November, 1944 at Epinal,

France, at the age of 20 years.

He served as a liaison pilot from November 1944 until April, 1945, was

promoted to 1

st Lieutenant in Feb, 1945, and was awarded the Air Medal and

three Oak Leaf Clusters for meritorious service in action. After the war ended,

he transferred to the Military Police Corps, and continued to serve in Europe

until 1947.

Returning to the United States, Larry married Nona Nielsen on April 17,1948

after a whirlwind romance of less than two weeks.

Following his military career, Larry worked as a Federal Investigator in

Wilmington, Delaware and Washington, D.C. He retired in 1979 after 36 years

of combined military and civilian federal service.

He later worked in the private sector as an investigator for Fauquier County,

Virginia and as a polygraph examiner, followed by a decade of volunteer work

that included working with the Warrenton Rescue Squad, the Flint Hill Fire and

Rescue, and the Fauquier Hospital located in Warrenton, Virginia.

Larry is survived by his step-daughter, Carol Lewis, of Albuquerque, New

Mexico, his daughter, Sharon Luke and her husband, Peter Luke, of Sperryville,

Virginia, his daughter, Susan Munday, and her husband Stewart Munday, of

Warrenton, Virginia, and his grandchildren, Sarah Marie Batchelder, Christina

Holland Luke, and Benjamin Garrett Luke. His wife of 60 years, Nona,

predeceased him in 2008, and his granddaughter, Lisa Sharon Batchelder

predeceased him in 2007.