posted 02-22-2004 05:33 PM
I saw this funeral notice in the paper today and thought that I would pass it along. My apologies if this information has already been posted. Jeff
From the February 22, 2004, edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
A memorial gathering will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 28 for Logan Tompkins MacMillan, project manager for the old McDonnell Aircraft Corp.'s Mercury space capsule, which carried the first American into space.
The gathering will be at Mudd's Grove at 302 West Argonne Drive in Kirkwood following a private burial at Forever Oak Hill.
Mr. MacMillan, a longtime resident of Kirkwood, died Dec. 27, 2003, of lung cancer at his retirement home in La Jolla, Calif. He was 82.
Mr. MacMillan was married to the former Suzanne Medart for 49 years, rearing four children. She died in 1992.
After serving in World War II, Mr. MacMillan joined McDonnell Aircraft as a test pilot, later becoming the chief test pilot and project manager for the Mercury project. The program built 20 space capsules, including Freedom 7, which carried Alan B. Shepard Jr. in America's first manned space flight in 1961, and Friendship 7, in which John Glenn Jr. circled the Earth three times in 1962.
Among survivors are two daughters, Mary Blaine Korff of Tucson, Ariz., and Susan Rien of Fair Oaks, Calif.; two sons, Douglas MacMillan of La Jolla and Logan MacMillan Jr. of Denver; and nine grandchildren.
posted 02-22-2004 05:33 PM
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