Alexander Daniel McConnell, 91, a former resident of Mathison Retirement Center died Thursday, June 18, 2009 at Sims State Veterans Nursing Home in Panama City, Fla. Mr. McConnell was born September 18, 1917 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, the son of the late Alexander and Henerietta Hershey McConnell. Both his father and grandfather, Judge Alexander Daniel McConnell, were noted Westmoreland County, Pa. attorneys. His ancestors came from Scotland and settled in Pennsylvania in the early 1700s and include William and Daniel McConnell who founded McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania around 1786. Mr. McConnell graduated from the University of Michigan in 1939 where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and began a career with General Motors Corporation that would last over 40 years. It was interrupted only by his service in World War II as a pilot in the US Army Air Corps. On November 7, 1942, he married Eileen Virginia McDermet in Greensburg, PA. He left the Army as a major in 1945 and resumed working for General Motors in Pittsburgh with GM's Oldsmobile Division. He and his family then lived in Jacksonville, Fla., followed by Charlotte, NC and Westfield, NJ before his final assignment as a senior level executive at the GM corporate headquarters in Lansing, Mich. After retiring from GM, he and his wife returned to Charlotte, NC. Following his wife's death in 1999, he moved to Panama City. He is survived by his son, Alexander D. McConnell of Lynchhburg, Va., his daughter, Judi Moore (William) of Panama City, Fla. and one grandson, William W. Moore, III of Davie, Fla. A graveside service will be held at St. Clair Cemetery in Greensburg, Pa. Memorials may be made to Covenant Hospice, Panama City, Fla.

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