More detail on this person: Gen. Claude T. Ivey: Former Fort Bragg general dies at 68 By Henry Cuningham Military editor Retired Maj. Gen. Claude T. Ivey, a former deputy commander of Fort Bragg and the 18th Airborne Corps, died Sunday. He was 68. Retired Gen. James J. Lindsay praised Ivey's role in establishing family support groups on Fort Bragg. ''He and his wife, Carol, were key people in making that happen,'' Lindsay said. Lindsay, who lives in Vass, was Fort Bragg's commander 1984 to 1986. Ivey was second in command on the post from 1985 to 1988. ''Claude was a great soldier,'' retired Gen. John W. Foss said. ''He worked hard at being a soldier all the time. He had a true interest in the welfare of the troops. He really kept his focus on what was important. I admired him very, very much.'' Foss, who lives in Williamsburg, Va., commanded the post from 1986 to 1988. Gen. Ivey, a native of Hopewell, Va., joined the Virginia National Guard at age 17. He went on active duty in 1956 and received his commission as a an infantry second lieutenant from Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1958. In 1961, he began flying helicopters and flew Hueys during two tours in Vietnam. He helped convince the Army to make aviation a combat branch on an equal footing with infantry, armor and artillery in 1983. ''I wouldn't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but although aviators carried more than their share of the load in Vietnam, a lot of the senior ground-forces commanders didn't understand Army aviation, perhaps still don't,'' Gen. Ivey said in a 1991 interview. Gen. Ivey's last assignment was at a NATO headquarters as deputy commander of Allied Land Forces in Southeastern Europe in Izmir, Turkey. He returned to Fort Bragg to retire from the Army in 1991 and worked as a real estate broker with Gore Realtors in Fayetteville. He was acting president of the Braxton Bragg Chapter of the Association of the U.S. Army, past president of The Retired Officers Association and a founding board member of the Airborne & Special Operations Museum. ''He has been one of the players in making the museum happen,'' Lindsay said. Gen. Ivey was a Sunday school teacher and member of the men's chorus at Highland Presbyterian Church. Dr. J. Ernest Johnson will officiate at a memorial service for Gen. Ivey at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Highland Presbyterian Church. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Jernigan-Warren Funeral Home. He is survived by his wife, Carol Ivey, of the home; four sons, Mark Ivey and Dale Ivey, both of Fayetteville; Army Capt. Karl Ivey of Oklahoma City and Jay Ivey of Tooele, Utah; two sisters, Jacqueline Ivey Quisenberry of Enterprise, Ala., and Virginia Ivey Donaldson of Conyers, Ga.; and seven grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the Care Clinic, 239 Robeson St., Fayetteville, NC 28301; or to Highland Presbyterian Church mission fund, 111 Highland Ave., Fayetteville, NC 28305.
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