Obituary: John J. Bubon, Decorated Army Officer

John J. “Jack” Bubon, a retired Army colonel and Ashburn resident who joined the military in 1956, died March 18 at the Halquist Memorial Inpatient Center in Arlington County. He was 78.

He had leukemia, his wife, Constance Bubon, told The Washington Post.

Col. Bubon served in Japan, Vietnam and Jordan, primarily as an intelligence officer, according to his obituary in the Post. He graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., in 1973.

His decorations included the Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal and the Air Medal, the Post reported.

After his retirement from the Army in 1986, Col. Bubon was a a program manager for American Systems Corp. in Chantilly. From 1991 to 2002, he was a certified financial planner for Edelman Financial Services in Fairfax County.

John Joseph Bubon was born in Rathburn, Iowa. He graduated in 1956 from the University of Illinois, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

A son, John Bubon, died in 1990. The Post reported his survivors as his wife of 56 years, Constance Wiseman Bubon of Ashburn; three children, Michael Bubon of Brookfield, Wis., Julie Keller of Haymarket and Leslie Byrne of Fayetteville, N.C.; two sisters; and four grandchildren.