Ridgely B. Bond Jr., a retired brigadier general in the Army Reserve and retired chief chemist at Baltimore's Domino sugar plant, died of heart disease Wednesday at his Catonsville home. He was 89.
A decorated combat veteran of World War II, the general retired from the reserves in 1966. He worked for Domino -- the American Sugar Refining Co. -- from 1927 until retiring in 1971.
General Bond was a native of Jessup and a graduate of the Boys' Latin School, where he was president of his senior class and awarded the Alumni Cup as a member of the gymnastics and football teams.
In 1927, he was the honor military graduate of the Pennsylvania Military College. The grandson of a former adjutant general of Maryland, he joined the National Guard and was with the reserve force when it was federalized in the war.
Transferred to units in training, he became a battalion commander in the 335th Infantry Regiment of the 84th Division that saw combat in the Battle of the Bulge and elsewhere in Belgium and Germany.
His decorations included the Legion of Honor and the Bronze Star.
After the war, he became the commanding officer of the 319th Parachute Infantry Regiment, a Baltimore reserve unit.
He was an honorary life member of Maryland's Fifth Regiment, a member of the Veterans Corps of the Fifth Regiment, a former president of the Francis Scott Key Chapter of the Association of the United States Army and a member of the Centennial Legion of Historical Military Commands.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church at 200 Ingleside Ave., Catonsville.
His first wife, the former Rose Sullivan, died in 1967. His second wife, the former Mary Howell, died in 1988.
He is survived by two daughters, Cassandra A. Bond and Miriam Kopper, both of Catonsville; three stepdaughters, Peggy Hanzsche and Mary Le Buchness, both of Catonsville, and Ann Veghte of Wayne, Pa.; and 14 grandchildren.