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Note: U.S. Army WWII The [Nashville] Tennessean, Wednesday, November 10, 1999, p 1B INSURANCE EXECUTIVE ARMISTEAD DIES AT 75 Nashville insurance executive Hunter Armistead, 75, died yesterday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after being injured in a fall. "He was a wonderful citizen, he was a wonderful businessman, he was a great and true friend. He loved his children and grandchildren, and I just lost a part of my heart tonight," said Dr. Benjamin Caldwell Jr. of Nashville. Mr. Armistead was born in Franklin, the son of the late Leonard H. Armistead Sr. and Mattie Hunter Armistead. He graduated from Battle Ground Academy in 1942 and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. In 1947 he graduated from Vanderbilt University and three years later graduated from Vanderbilt Law School. He married Clare Corson in 1952 and in 1953 joined her father in the Davis & Corson insurance agency, the start of a career in the insurance industry. At the time of his death he was chairman of Greenwich Transportation Inc., a Nashville insurance company of which his son, Ben, is president and chief executive officer. Mr. Armistead was a member of St. George's Episcopal Church and the Belle Meade Country Club. Besides his wife, Mr. Armistead is survived by two sons, Hunter Armistead Jr. and Benjamin Corson Armistead, and three grandchildren.
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