Son of Pedro Guerra Beltran and Felicita Martinez Beltran.
Educated in Karnes City School. Graduated from Karnes City High School, 1958.
Military; Since he had to fulfill an obligatory time in the military service, he decided to do that following graduation. He picked the Army because they only required three years of service and the others required four years. He enlisted 12 June 1958 and was sent to Fort Carson, Colorado, a shock to the system after living his entire life up to that point in hot, flat, Texas and then adjusting to the cool altitude of Colorado. His unit was ready to go fight in the Congo, but those orders were rescinded at the last moment and he ended up in Germany where he served as an MP. His rank was SP4, with the 533rd MP Corp, 8th Army, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He was mustered out of the army 3 June 1961 in New Jersey.
There was not much for employment in Karnes City and Pete had friends in California, so he went west, unemployment unknown until he was hired by Western Airlines in San Francisco in 1964, his work loading planes, working the commissary, putting meals on the planes and loading bags and cargo on the planes, what was called 'Customer Service Agent.'
It was at Western where he met Charlene Seaver and they knew each other for almost three years before deciding to get married 2 March 1968 in Redwood City, San Mateo Co., California, to the surprise of co-workers, friends and family, a simple ceremony at a local church.
Pete put in for a transfer to Denver, Colorado sometime in the fall of 1968.
Pete used his G.I. bill to go to auto mechanics classes at Emily Griffith Opportunity School in Denver in 1971. He went 3 years, going to school mornings and working swing shifts. After auto mechanics he took more training in painting and body work.
Western Airlines merged with Delta Airlines and the Western name phased out. The loading was handled in Atlanta, the liquor handled locally, and Pete became strictly a plane loader. He held that job until the fall of 1995, when Delta decided all planes could be loaded with part time, minimum wage personnel, his job was abolished and of the places he was offered for transfer, he decided on Salt Lake City, Utah, and worked there, living in nearby Clearfield until his retirement in October 2003. Not wanting to stay in Utah, and the expense of going back to Colorado then too costly, Pete and Charlene picked Cheyenne as the place to retire.
Pete suffered a heart attack in 7 April 2009, then a stroke on 18 January 2014. He was transferred to the Allison Care Nursing Home in Lakewood, Colorado where he stayed until August 2015 when he returned to Cheyenne. Pneumonia and other medical problems caused his system to weaken and he died in the VA hospital in Cheyenne 8 May 2017.
Buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery with military ceremonies.
There are no children from this marriage.
(bio by C. Beltran, May 2017)
Son of Pedro Guerra Beltran and Felicita Martinez Beltran.
Educated in Karnes City School. Graduated from Karnes City High School, 1958.
Military; Since he had to fulfill an obligatory time in the military service, he decided to do that following graduation. He picked the Army because they only required three years of service and the others required four years. He enlisted 12 June 1958 and was sent to Fort Carson, Colorado, a shock to the system after living his entire life up to that point in hot, flat, Texas and then adjusting to the cool altitude of Colorado. His unit was ready to go fight in the Congo, but those orders were rescinded at the last moment and he ended up in Germany where he served as an MP. His rank was SP4, with the 533rd MP Corp, 8th Army, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He was mustered out of the army 3 June 1961 in New Jersey.
There was not much for employment in Karnes City and Pete had friends in California, so he went west, unemployment unknown until he was hired by Western Airlines in San Francisco in 1964, his work loading planes, working the commissary, putting meals on the planes and loading bags and cargo on the planes, what was called 'Customer Service Agent.'
It was at Western where he met Charlene Seaver and they knew each other for almost three years before deciding to get married 2 March 1968 in Redwood City, San Mateo Co., California, to the surprise of co-workers, friends and family, a simple ceremony at a local church.
Pete put in for a transfer to Denver, Colorado sometime in the fall of 1968.
Pete used his G.I. bill to go to auto mechanics classes at Emily Griffith Opportunity School in Denver in 1971. He went 3 years, going to school mornings and working swing shifts. After auto mechanics he took more training in painting and body work.
Western Airlines merged with Delta Airlines and the Western name phased out. The loading was handled in Atlanta, the liquor handled locally, and Pete became strictly a plane loader. He held that job until the fall of 1995, when Delta decided all planes could be loaded with part time, minimum wage personnel, his job was abolished and of the places he was offered for transfer, he decided on Salt Lake City, Utah, and worked there, living in nearby Clearfield until his retirement in October 2003. Not wanting to stay in Utah, and the expense of going back to Colorado then too costly, Pete and Charlene picked Cheyenne as the place to retire.
Pete suffered a heart attack in 7 April 2009, then a stroke on 18 January 2014. He was transferred to the Allison Care Nursing Home in Lakewood, Colorado where he stayed until August 2015 when he returned to Cheyenne. Pneumonia and other medical problems caused his system to weaken and he died in the VA hospital in Cheyenne 8 May 2017.
Buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery with military ceremonies.
There are no children from this marriage.
(bio by C. Beltran, May 2017)
