John K Carney

John K Carney (98), a retired Air Force Colonel and civil service executive with the General Services Administration died Saturday March 17, 2012. Born near Orlando in Braxton County, West Virginia, Colonel Carney resided in Springfield, Virginia since 1960. During his military career beginning in 1941, he supervised an array of management and logistics programs for the Air Force in the United States and abroad. His overseas assignments took him to the Philippines (two tours), South America, Trinidad and Saudi Arabia. His last six years were served in the Pentagon at Air Force Headquarters in the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he headed joint service planning and negotiating groups leading to the consolidation of major logistics functions within the Department of Defense. He retired from the Air Force in 1966 after 24 years of service. In a second career with the General Services Administration, he pursued the development of a government-wide national supply system. This entailed negotiating a series of agreements between Federal civil agencies and the Department of Defense to eliminate overlapping logistics functions. He retired a second time in 1980 as Director of Supply Policy in the Federal Supply Service after 38 years of government service. An ex-Divine World Seminarian at Techny, IL, he later graduated from Jesuit Run Springhill College, Mobile, AL while in uniform, under “Operation Bootstrap”. A founding member of St. Bernadette Catholic Church in Springfield, he was also a member of the Air Force Association, The Retired Officers Association, and the National Association of the Uniformed Services. Colonel Carney is survived by his wife Adelle (nee Wright); 4 daughters: Constance Bedell, Bernadine O’Hare, Deborah Fowler of Northern Virginia, and Cathrine Carney of Parkersburg, WV; 2 sons: Daniel of Alpharetta, GA and Patrick of Northern Virginia; 16 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren.