Published in the Washington Post:

Thomas J. Allshouse, a retired Navy rear admiral who was chairman and chief executive from 1992 to 2000 of the corporation that administers the Vinson Hall and Arleigh Burke Pavilion retirement facilities in McLean, Virginia, died November 19, 2002, at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, Maryland, from cancer, at the age of 77.

Adm. Allshouse, who lived in Woodbridge, Virginia, served in the Navy Supply Corps for 34 years and retired in 1981 as commander of the Navy Ships Parts Control Center in Pennsylvania. After that, he was a business consultant with Kent Maxfield Associates and treasurer of the Navy Marine Coast Guard Residence Foundation.

He was a native of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, attended the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

He received a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University and also attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

His commands included the Naval Supply Center in Oakland, California. He was also director of the materiel division under the deputy chief of naval operations for logistics.

His honors include four awards of the Legion of Merit.

He was a member of Grace Lutheran Church in Woodbridge.