Margaret "Mugs" Cecile Flott

Margaret C. Flott, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.), died suddenly at her home in Arlington, VA on October 11, 2024. Margaret, better known by family and friends as Mugs, was born in Washington, DC on June 19, 1950 to Evelyn (Simms) and Allan C. Flott. She was raised in Bowie and Chevy Chase, Maryland with her 12 siblings. Mugs was the exact middle of the 13 children. She was predeceased by her parents, her brothers Charles and Allan, Jr. (better known as Tucker) and sister Elaine. She is survived by her stepdaughters Jo Ann Currey Hauger and Shari Currey Noteware; their spouses and children; the rest of her siblings, Harriet, Stephen, Evelyn, Michael, John, Theresa, Mary Frances, Andrew, Matthew; and their spouses and children.

Margaret attended grade school at Our Lady of Lourdes in Bethesda, MD, two years of high school at the Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, MD and was graduated from Bethesda Chevy Chase High School in 1968. She attended the University of Maryland after working for two years at the Bank of Bethesda, was graduated from UMD with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1974 and earned a Master of Science Degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California in 1986. She was also a graduate of the US Army’s Command and General Staff College and the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA.

Margaret joined the US Army through the last officer class of the Women's Army Corps in 1977, commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in the Transportation Corps. Throughout her 26-year military career, her assignments included service in the United States (Fort Riley, Fort Eustis, West Point, Fort Hood, and the Pentagon), as well as abroad (Korea, Germany, Somalia, Belgium, and France.) Her military awards include the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with 6 oak leaf clusters, Army Commendation Medal with 3 oak leaf clusters, Army Achievement Medal, and the German Army Logistics Badge in Silver. Following her retirement from military service in 2003, Margaret served as a civilian employee at the American Battle Monuments Commission and the US Embassy Paris.

Throughout her career and into her retirement, Margaret was a staunch advocate for, and a worthy example of, the roles that women should play in the modern military. She loved traveling and living abroad; she adopted Paris as her second home and delighted in sharing the experience with visiting family and friends. Beyond her professional life, Margaret loved sharing her beautiful singing voice. She used it wherever she was stationed or lived. She sang as a cantor, in church choirs and the Paris Choral Society to name a few. She was fluent in French and German and had started to learn Spanish as well. She had recently become a USO Ambassador and was excited to serve.

The family will receive friends on Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from 4:00pm - 7:00pm at Murphy Funeral Home, 4510 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at the St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel on the George Mason University Fairfax, VA campus on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM.

In lieu of flowers please donate to the Military Women’s Memorial [email protected] or the American Cancer Society in Margaret’s name.