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2LT Travis Lee Haltom

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2LT Travis Lee Haltom Veteran

Birth
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA
Death
7 Jun 1918 (aged 22)
Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 29.4213323, Longitude: -98.4700157
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Aviators Will Fly Over Grave of Lt. Halton During Funeral A full military funeral will be given Lieut. Travis Lee Halton of San Antonio, who was killed Friday in a mid-air collision with Lieut. John L. Hagarty of Mount Vernon, N.Y., at the Gerstner Field, Lake Charles, La. The body will be interned in the Odd Fellows Cemetery on Sunday afternoon after services at the Central Christian Church on Main Ave at 4 o'clock. Aviators from Kelly Field will fly over the cemetery and drop flowers on the grave and the casket draped with an American flag will be carried by officers from Kelly Field. Those acting as pall bearer will be: Lt's George M. Stiller, John W. Frost, Edgar Willrich, Arthur Mason, Benjamin Ramscur and James Truehart.
Lieutenant Haltom was born in San Antonio and received his education here in the public schools where he made a brilliant record as a student and an athlete. He was studying law at the Rice Institute in May, 1917, but he promptly left 1918 college to enter the ranks as a Pvt. Afterwards he attended the ground school at Austin and then received his commission at Kelly Field. He is survived by his parents and brothers and sisters: Lieut. Guy Haltom, with the forces in France; Lieut. Byron Haltom, Depot Brigade, Camp Travis; Charles Haltom of San Antonio; and two sisters, Miss Lanier Haltom of New York City and Mrs. John Henning of Sulphur, La.
The San Antonio Light June 9, 1918.
Grandson of Major Trevanian Theodore Teel and Emily Frances Winans.
Aviators Will Fly Over Grave of Lt. Halton During Funeral A full military funeral will be given Lieut. Travis Lee Halton of San Antonio, who was killed Friday in a mid-air collision with Lieut. John L. Hagarty of Mount Vernon, N.Y., at the Gerstner Field, Lake Charles, La. The body will be interned in the Odd Fellows Cemetery on Sunday afternoon after services at the Central Christian Church on Main Ave at 4 o'clock. Aviators from Kelly Field will fly over the cemetery and drop flowers on the grave and the casket draped with an American flag will be carried by officers from Kelly Field. Those acting as pall bearer will be: Lt's George M. Stiller, John W. Frost, Edgar Willrich, Arthur Mason, Benjamin Ramscur and James Truehart.
Lieutenant Haltom was born in San Antonio and received his education here in the public schools where he made a brilliant record as a student and an athlete. He was studying law at the Rice Institute in May, 1917, but he promptly left 1918 college to enter the ranks as a Pvt. Afterwards he attended the ground school at Austin and then received his commission at Kelly Field. He is survived by his parents and brothers and sisters: Lieut. Guy Haltom, with the forces in France; Lieut. Byron Haltom, Depot Brigade, Camp Travis; Charles Haltom of San Antonio; and two sisters, Miss Lanier Haltom of New York City and Mrs. John Henning of Sulphur, La.
The San Antonio Light June 9, 1918.
Grandson of Major Trevanian Theodore Teel and Emily Frances Winans.


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