Retired AF TSgt. Gerald Ray Carnahan a resident of Abilene Texas died Saturday morning August 22nd in Odessa after a long and hard battle against diabetes and heart disease.
Services are to be held at his church Fort Phantom Baptist on Friday August 28th at 12:30 p.m. followed by a 2 p.m. graveside ceremony at the Texas State Veterans Cemetery at Abilene where he will receive full military honors. Bill Dickson and Dave Douglas will be officiating under the direction of North's Funeral Home 242 Orange Street.
TSgt. Carnahan retired from the US Air Force after three tours in Vietnam with a total of twenty years one month and seventeen days of service between 1961 and 1983.
Born in Dixon Illinois on December 14 1943 he is survived by his wife Zelma two sons Larry and David of Washington state his daughter Lori of Texas three grandchildren Michael Taralee and Travis and two sisters Pauline Pettenger and Judy Evanoski both of Illinois.
Online condolences may be sent to www.northsfuneralhome.com
Definition of a veteran:
A veteran - whether active duty, reserve, national guard, or retired - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life."
That is HONOR and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
Services are to be held at his church Fort Phantom Baptist on Friday August 28th at 12:30 p.m. followed by a 2 p.m. graveside ceremony at the Texas State Veterans Cemetery at Abilene where he will receive full military honors. Bill Dickson and Dave Douglas will be officiating under the direction of North's Funeral Home 242 Orange Street.
TSgt. Carnahan retired from the US Air Force after three tours in Vietnam with a total of twenty years one month and seventeen days of service between 1961 and 1983.
Born in Dixon Illinois on December 14 1943 he is survived by his wife Zelma two sons Larry and David of Washington state his daughter Lori of Texas three grandchildren Michael Taralee and Travis and two sisters Pauline Pettenger and Judy Evanoski both of Illinois.
Online condolences may be sent to www.northsfuneralhome.com
Definition of a veteran:
A veteran - whether active duty, reserve, national guard, or retired - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life."
That is HONOR and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
Retired AF TSgt. Gerald Ray Carnahan a resident of Abilene Texas died Saturday morning August 22nd in Odessa after a long and hard battle against diabetes and heart disease.
Services are to be held at his church Fort Phantom Baptist on Friday August 28th at 12:30 p.m. followed by a 2 p.m. graveside ceremony at the Texas State Veterans Cemetery at Abilene where he will receive full military honors. Bill Dickson and Dave Douglas will be officiating under the direction of North's Funeral Home 242 Orange Street.
TSgt. Carnahan retired from the US Air Force after three tours in Vietnam with a total of twenty years one month and seventeen days of service between 1961 and 1983.
Born in Dixon Illinois on December 14 1943 he is survived by his wife Zelma two sons Larry and David of Washington state his daughter Lori of Texas three grandchildren Michael Taralee and Travis and two sisters Pauline Pettenger and Judy Evanoski both of Illinois.
Online condolences may be sent to www.northsfuneralhome.com
Definition of a veteran:
A veteran - whether active duty, reserve, national guard, or retired - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life."
That is HONOR and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
Services are to be held at his church Fort Phantom Baptist on Friday August 28th at 12:30 p.m. followed by a 2 p.m. graveside ceremony at the Texas State Veterans Cemetery at Abilene where he will receive full military honors. Bill Dickson and Dave Douglas will be officiating under the direction of North's Funeral Home 242 Orange Street.
TSgt. Carnahan retired from the US Air Force after three tours in Vietnam with a total of twenty years one month and seventeen days of service between 1961 and 1983.
Born in Dixon Illinois on December 14 1943 he is survived by his wife Zelma two sons Larry and David of Washington state his daughter Lori of Texas three grandchildren Michael Taralee and Travis and two sisters Pauline Pettenger and Judy Evanoski both of Illinois.
Online condolences may be sent to www.northsfuneralhome.com
Definition of a veteran:
A veteran - whether active duty, reserve, national guard, or retired - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life."
That is HONOR and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
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