Obituaries : Homer Case; Nation’s Oldest General at 101

Brig. Gen. Homer Case, 101, a veteran of three major wars and the oldest general in the United States. After growing up in Marshfield, Mo., Case attended Drury College in Springfield, Mo., and started an architectural course at Washington University. He abandoned his scholarship, however, to enlist in the Army Officer Training Corps when the United States entered World War I. He served with Gen. John J. Pershing at Verdun and celebrated Armistice Day in Paris. Before America’s entry into World War II, Case was sent to London as a military intelligence officer. He later served in the war under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in Europe and Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the South Pacific. Between those assignments, Case commanded a training center at what was then Camp Cook, near Riverside. Case served in the Korean War and retired from the military in 1955. On Sunday in Santa Barbara.