Major General Edmund Bower Sebree, U.S.A. (ret.) passed away at Fort Ord, California Saturday, June 25, 1966 after a short illness.

Major General Sebree, age 68, a native of Olney, Illinois, and one of Olney’s famous group of Generals, is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, class of 1919; a veteran of both World Wars and the Korean War; retired after 38 years’ service.

Sebree held the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit, two Silver Stars and the Purple Heart. His last post, before retirement in 1957, was Chief of Staff, Continental Army Command, Fort Monroe, VA.

He was in actual command of U.S. Army troops in the first fighting of the war by this nation on Guadalcanal, becoming the first commander of army troops in combat in the war. Later he organized a division at Fort Bragg, N.C. for the D-Day invasion of the European continent, landing with some of the first troops of the invasion in Normandy.  He later organized a division of eastern France for the invasion of Germany.

Sebree is the husband of Mrs. Pauline (Weber) Sebree of Carmel; father of Mrs. Elizabeth Brennan, Fort MacArthur, Calif; Mrs. Martha McAlister, Quarry Heights, Canal Zone and Mrs. Pauline Olow, Stuttgart, Germany.

Richmond Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA) – Wednesday, June 29, 1966 & Olney Daily Mail (IL) - July 2, 1966