He is survived by his wife, Lucinda Shaw O’Connor, of Lawton children Michael O’Connor of Cupertino, CA and Maureen O’Connor of San Diego, CA stepchildren Sara (Reeder) Robinson of Seattle, WA and Daniel Reeder of Big Pine, CA and six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. His final project was a pro bono design for the recent remodel of the Lawton YMCA building. O’Connor and his wife Cindy moved to Lawton, OK in 2010, where he became an active member of Centenary Methodist Church. He served on the board of the First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, and oversaw the 1990s restoration of the century-old cathedral building. Over the next 20 years, he worked on a wide range of planning and construction projects in both Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area - including the 10-story Nicholas Petris CalTrans Headquarters building in Oakland, CA, for which he was the primary construction manager and the initial site planning for Disney’s California Adventure theme park. In 1987, O’Connor relocated to Los Angeles to join the Home Savings of America as the Vice President of Project Management, specializing in public-private design/build projects. The government of France also invited his consultation on their ski areas in the Alps. This work led to other ski area planning and design projects at Vail, CO Brian Head, UT and Whistler, BC. As the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area and the town of Mammoth Lakes grew from the 1950s onward, O’Connor designed the first set of lodge buildings and guided the development of the mountain’s layout and also provided master planning for the town itself. The town of Lone Pine, CA - known for its western charm - maintains that distinctive look due to architectural appearance standards he created in the 1970s. Between 19, he (and later, his Bishop-based firm, O’Connor and Associates) designed hospitals, banks, churches, tribal and government buildings, and private homes throughout eastern California. Over the next 30 years, his work left a mark - first on California, and then more widely. In 1972, he passed the California state architectural licensing exams and was admitted to the American Institute of Architects. In 1960, he apprenticed to an architect in Bishop, CA. Returning to California in 1952, O’Connor worked as a commercial artist and draftsman for construction projects, which kindled his interest in architecture. At UNM, he was affiliated with the Sigma Chi fraternity. Following the war, with a GED and GI Bill in hand, O’Connor attended several universities in Arizona and New Mexico, ultimately earning his BA in commercial art from the University of New Mexico in 1951. He left home at the age of 14, and enlisted in the US Navy in 1944 at age 16. O’Connor was born in east Los Angeles on October 29, 1928, the second of four children born to Allan James O’Connor and Charlotte Passino O’Connor. Although a majority of the files consist of between two to four pages, a few contain up to four linear inches of material.Allan O’Connor, who has been a resident of Lawton since 2010, died of natural causes at the Hospice of Wichita Falls on Tuesday, October 5. Materials continue to be added to these files. Additional material consists of newspaper clippings, journal articles, change of command/retirement brochures, and biographies printed from the websites of the Navy Chief of Information and Arlington National Cemetery. Many of the files consist of individual officer biographies produced during the 1950s through the 1970s by the Navy Office of Information, Internal Relations Division the Navy Office of Information, Biographies Branch and the Division of Naval Records and History (OP 29). Also see Navy Personnel: A Research Guide. For biographical information from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, see the Navy Department Library's ZB files and Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy officers who served during the Second World War and the Cold War-era, though their contents range from the Interwar period (1919-1939) through the War on Terrorism. The files are particularly noted for biographical coverage of senior U.S. These files have been accumulated since the early 20th century by the Navy Department Library to provide historical information to US Navy personnel and other researchers, both official and unofficial. They are a combination of files collected by the Library and a ready reference collection of duplicate flag officer files formerly housed in the Archives Branch of the Naval History and Heritage Command. The Modern Biographical Files are located in the Navy Department Library's Rare Book Room.
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