26 Apr 1910 – 23 Mar 1989
Husband of Alice June Cardon
CARL FARNSWORTH BELLISTON Red Cross Executive Carl Farnsworth Belliston, 78, retired director of fiscal management and education for the Red Cross national blood program, died of congestive heart failure March 23 at Northern Virginia Doctors Hospital.
Mr. Belliston, who lived in Arlington, was born in Nephi, Utah. He graduated from Utah State University and received a master’s degree in education at the University of Oregon.
In 1937 he began working for the Red Cross on the West Coast after having taught at Weber Junior College in Ogden, Utah. He served in the Army during World War II, then remained in the reserves after the war until retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1970.
After the war, Mr. Belliston rejoined the Red Cross in San Francisco. In 1950 he was transferred to Washington as assistant administrator of the national blood program. In 1965 he was assigned in West Germany as director of operations of the American Red Cross in Europe. He returned to Washington in 1969 as director of fiscal management and education for the national blood program, and he retired in 1973.
Survivors include his wife, Alice Cardon Belliston of Arlington, and two sisters, Florence Powell and Alice B. Campbell, both of Utah.