WALTER KINARD RICHMOND WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1918 TO WALTER PEYTON RICHMOND AND LILY IRENE SNIDER-RICHMOND IN HAZEN, ARKANSAS. HE WAS THE OLDEST OF SEVEN CHILDREN: EDITH LAVERNE (FICKER)RICHMOND-WEINSTEIN-BOREN, GUSS ELWARD (BUDDY)RICHMOND,DOROTHY MAXINE (DOODLE)RICHMOND-DOWDY, LORRAINE (STILLBORN), THOMAS EMMETT (TOM)RICHMOND, MELVIN FINIS (TOOTSIE) RICHMOND. HE WAS THE FATHER OF SIX CHILDREN:HELEN MARIE, WALTER PAYTON, ALBERT SIDNEY, RICHARD ELMER, SUZANNE IRENE AND MARY DEE. HE STUDIED TO BE AN ELECTRICIAN BEFORE JOINING THE AIR FORCE IN 1940. HE SPENT 27 YEARS IN THE USAF AND RETIRED A M/SGT IN SEPT 1967. AFTER HE RETIRED HE MOVED BACK TO EADS TO SPEND HIS REMAINING YEARS WITH HIS EXTENDED FAMILY. CONTRARY TO WHAT HE BELIEVED WOULD HAPPEN, HIS WIFE, MARY OLA, DIED BEFORE HIM AND SEVEN MONTHS LATER HE DIED OF A BROKEN HEART. W.K. IS BURIED IN THE EADS CEMETERY NEXT TO SOME OF HIS SIBLINGS, HIS PARENTS, PATERNAL GRAND PARENTS, AUNTS, UNCLES AND COUSINS. IF HE COULDN'T BE IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY THIS WAS WHERE HE WANTED TO BE. YOU CAN ALSO FIND THIS PHOTO ON wwiimemorial.com
WALTER KINARD RICHMOND WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1918 TO WALTER PEYTON RICHMOND AND LILY IRENE SNIDER-RICHMOND IN HAZEN, ARKANSAS. HE WAS THE OLDEST OF SEVEN CHILDREN: EDITH LAVERNE (FICKER)RICHMOND-WEINSTEIN-BOREN, GUSS ELWARD (BUDDY)RICHMOND,DOROTHY MAXINE (DOODLE)RICHMOND-DOWDY, LORRAINE (STILLBORN), THOMAS EMMETT (TOM)RICHMOND, MELVIN FINIS (TOOTSIE) RICHMOND. HE WAS THE FATHER OF SIX CHILDREN:HELEN MARIE, WALTER PAYTON, ALBERT SIDNEY, RICHARD ELMER, SUZANNE IRENE AND MARY DEE. HE STUDIED TO BE AN ELECTRICIAN BEFORE JOINING THE AIR FORCE IN 1940. HE SPENT 27 YEARS IN THE USAF AND RETIRED A M/SGT IN SEPT 1967. AFTER HE RETIRED HE MOVED BACK TO EADS TO SPEND HIS REMAINING YEARS WITH HIS EXTENDED FAMILY. CONTRARY TO WHAT HE BELIEVED WOULD HAPPEN, HIS WIFE, MARY OLA, DIED BEFORE HIM AND SEVEN MONTHS LATER HE DIED OF A BROKEN HEART. W.K. IS BURIED IN THE EADS CEMETERY NEXT TO SOME OF HIS SIBLINGS, HIS PARENTS, PATERNAL GRAND PARENTS, AUNTS, UNCLES AND COUSINS. IF HE COULDN'T BE IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY THIS WAS WHERE HE WANTED TO BE. YOU CAN ALSO FIND THIS PHOTO ON wwiimemorial.com
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