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Peixotto -- Col. James M. Peixotto, joined the Lord in heaven on Tuesday, January 15, 2002. He was born at the Presidio of San Francisco on October 23, 1919, the son of an Army officer. During his youth he lived on many army bases in the United States and overseas. Upon his graduation from the University of California, Berkeley, he became an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers and served during WWII in Panama, protecting the Panama Canal, and then with General Patton in Europe until the end of the war. Afterwards, he was retained in Europe to reconstruct the destroyed bridges. Returning to the United States in 1945, he held his first-born son. Lt. Peixotto and Margaret Anne Briggs were married in Berkeley, CA after graduating from the University in 1942. During Col. Peixotto's career in the army the family lived in many areas of the United States as well as overseas in Austria and Japan. From 1958 to 1962, Col. Peixotto served at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, WY, building the Atlas Missile Silos during the �Cold War�. Then he served one year (without his family) in Korea before moving to Albuquerque in 1963. He was assigned to Sandia Base with W.E.T. (Weapons Effects Testing), which meant many trips to the Nevada Test Site. He received a special award for devising a way to re-use the underground nuclear test tunnels for more than one test. After retirement from the army he worked for E.G.& G. and finally �retired� to build a family log cabin in the mountains with his own hands; and also became an avid fly fisherman. Col. Peixotto was greatly loved by all his family: his wife, Margaret; son, Col. David Elliot and wife, Elise; daughter, Mary Catharine Bradford and husband, John Bradford; son, James Lloyd Peixotto and wife, Patti; and daughter, Barbara Comstock. His eight grandchildren were his treasures: Jessica and David Mac Peixotto, Jack and Elizabeth Bradford, James R., Becky and Robert Peixotto and Christopher Comstock-Lombardi. Col. Peixotto's grandfather, Col. S.R. Dishman and his father, Brig. General E.M. Peixotto, along with two brothers, Col. Roland E. Peixotto and Lt. General Ernest D. Peixotto add to a long line of family service to the United States of America. Private family memorial services will be held. French Mortuary, 7121 Wyoming Blvd. NE.
        Published on: Fri January 18, 2002