Berton E. Spivy Jr.

Korean War Berton Everett Spivy Jr. (22 December 1911 – 26 November 1997) was a United States Army four-star general who served as United States Military Representative, NATO Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium, from 1968 to 1971.

Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on 22 December 1911,[1] to Berton Everett Sr. and Maude Bramlette Spivy, who were from Bonham, Texas.

Spivy held a variety of staff and command positions while in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

In the following years, he served in a variety of joint staff positions to include Chief of the JCS Liaison Group to the Director, Joint Strategic Target Planning and as the Director, Plans and Operations (J-3), Headquarters, U.S. European Command.

[5] He died 26 November 1997, of cancer at Baylor Hospital in Dallas, Texas, survived by his second wife, LaNeil Wright Spivy, and two sons.