John Treadwell, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and corporate executive, died Feb. 16, 2014. He was 89.
He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1946. He earned a master’s degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton in 1954.
During his military career, he taught social sciences at West Point and at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He was a U.S. military attaché in Hong Kong, and commanded the Second Armored Division at Fort Hood, Texas.
Treadwell retired from the Army in 1967, and then joined J.P. Stevens and Co. Inc. in New York City, moving to the advertising agency BBDO in 1972. Lastly, he was at United Brands from 1977 to 1988, when he retired as vice president of human resources.
He was predeceased by his wife, Constance. He is survived by two daughters, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
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