Funeral services were scheduled here today for Col. Robert X,. Hullinghorst, a native of New Orleans who died Thursday at Bethesda Naval hospital of a heart attack.
Col. Hullinghorst, 43, was deputy chief of the Army Surgeon Generals' Medical Research and Development Command. He was a veteran of 20 years in the Army.
Among the survivors are bis parents, Dr. and Mrs. G. Jv Hullinghorst, 1033 Broadway, and a brother, George J. of New Orleans.
Col. Hullinghorst was born in New Orleans and attended elementary and high schools there. He tfis graduated from the Louisiana State university medical school in 1938 and interned at Gorgas hospital in the Canal Zone. Served in Tokyo
The colonel was commissioned in 1939 and served in the European theater of operations with the 34th Medical Battalion and1 the 32nd and 139th Evacuation Hospitals. He was awarded the Legion of Merit.
Following the war, he completed a residency in pathology at Letterman and Fitzsimmons Army hospitals and from 1949 to 1952 commanded the 406th Medical General Laboratory in Tokyo. After service as director of the Army medical service graduate school at Walter Reed hospital, he became chief of the research division of the Armed Force Institute of Pathology in 1954.
Col. Hullinghorst joined the surgeon general's office in 1956 and became head of, the research and development division. When this agency was advanced in-status to a major command in August, 1958, he remained as chief until the arrival of a general officer, Memberships Held
Col. Hullinghorst was a member of the American College of Pathologists, the American Medical Association, the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, the International Academy of Pathology, the National Research Council and the New York Academy of Sciences. He was the author of several articles on laboratory medicine, blood banking and military preventive medicine.
Col. Hullinghorst suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in September and was on convalescent leave from Walter Reed hospital when stricken.
He is also survived by his widow, the former Jean Iverson of Jamestown, N. D.; daughters Susan, 11, and Joan, 8, all of Bethesda, Md.; a son, Robert S. of Wyoming, and a second brother, David, of New Hampshire.
Services were scheduled for the Fort Hyer chapel at 2 p. m., with burial in Arlington National cemetery.
