Deceased Name: Fletcher H. Ellzey
Fletcher Hayden "Bud" Ellzey, a U.S. Air Force veteran and a retiree of the U.S. Civil Service, died Friday at an area hospital. He was 82.
Ellzey was a native of Chicago and a former resident of Elmhurst, Ill. He retired to Mobile in 1986.
He had been stationed at Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile.
During World War II, he served with the 25th Division during the Philippine Liberation. He later served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean and Vietnam wars as a flight crew member on military cargo aircraft. He retired with the rank of senior master sergeant.
In 1985, he retired from the Civil Service at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, where he had worked in the AWACS and B-52 depot maintenance programs.
Survivors include three sons, David Alan Neal Ellzey of Bastrop, Texas, Jon Edwin Ellzey of Austin, Texas, and Timothy J. Ellzey of Mobile; and three grandchildren.
A memorial service is scheduled for 10 a.m. today at Pine Crest Funeral Home on Dauphin Island Parkway. His ashes will be placed in the Chapel of the Pines Mausoleum in Pine Crest Cemetery.
Deceased Name: Fletcher H. Ellzey
Fletcher Hayden "Bud" Ellzey, a U.S. Air Force veteran and a retiree of the U.S. Civil Service, died Friday at an area hospital. He was 82.
Ellzey was a native of Chicago and a former resident of Elmhurst, Ill. He retired to Mobile in 1986.
He had been stationed at Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile.
During World War II, he served with the 25th Division during the Philippine Liberation. He later served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean and Vietnam wars as a flight crew member on military cargo aircraft. He retired with the rank of senior master sergeant.
In 1985, he retired from the Civil Service at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, where he had worked in the AWACS and B-52 depot maintenance programs.
Survivors include three sons, David Alan Neal Ellzey of Bastrop, Texas, Jon Edwin Ellzey of Austin, Texas, and Timothy J. Ellzey of Mobile; and three grandchildren.
A memorial service is scheduled for 10 a.m. today at Pine Crest Funeral Home on Dauphin Island Parkway. His ashes will be placed in the Chapel of the Pines Mausoleum in Pine Crest Cemetery.
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