 He continued in the army during the 1920s and 1930s and was quickly promoted to brigadier general in 1942.After the war he became a consulting engineer and managed the Port of Houston.William Francis Heavey was born at Fort McPherson, Georgia, on 29 January 1896, the eldest of three sons son of a U. S. Army officer, John W. Heavey, and his Julia Baggett.