Allan McAlpin Heyward, 87, of Richmond, VA, died November 16, 2009 after a brief illness. He is survived by his wife, Marianna Chapin Marshall Heyward; his children, Allan McAlpin Heyward Jr. and Virginia Randolph Heyward of Richmond, Roberta Guerard Heyward Perkins of Reading, England, and Wayne Marshall Heyward of Sebattus, Maine; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He was born May 14, 1922 in Savannah, Georgia, and graduated from The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. He was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the Second World War and the occupation of Japan. He was recalled to service in the Korean War, and served in Korea. He was a civil engineer and worked for many years for Virginia Engineering Company (later Basic Construction) in Newport News. In 1964, he was appointed by then Governor Harrison to serve on the Virginia Board of Conservation and Economic Development, to which he was reappointed in 1968. He left Virginia to work for Daniel International in Greenville, S.C. He then moved to Richmond in the early 1970s while with Daniel International, to oversee construction of the Philip Morris cigarette manufacturing plant in Chesterfield. In 1974, he founded Heyward Construction Company (which became Heyward & Lee Construction), from which he retired. He was an avid and active sailor and outdoorsman. He was a member and past Commodore of the Southwest Harbor Fleet in Maine, and past president of Deep Run Hunt Club. He was a member and past President-General of the Society of Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and a member of the Society of Colonial Wars and of the Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He was also a member of the Commonwealth Club, the Fox Hill Beagles and the Farmington Beagles in Charlottesville. He was a member of All Saints Episcopal Church in Richmond and St. John and St. Andrew Episcopal Church in Southwest Harbor, Maine. His remains will be interred at St. Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. Tags: 1944
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