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A. L. Bamhart
FRANKSTON --- Services for Aubrey Lee "Cotton" Bamhart, 69. Holiday Hills, Frankston. are set for 2 p.m. Sunday in the Blackwell and Blackwell Funeral Home chapel
with the Rev. George Folmar officiating.
Masonic graveside services will follow at Lone Star Cemetery near Nacogdoches.
Mr, Bamhart died Friday morning in a Tyler hospital.
Born Aug. 15, 1915, in Texas, he was a retired boiler-maker and a Mason. He was a World War II veteran. having served with the 508th Parachute Infantry.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Elsie Geneva Barnhart, Holiday :Hills;
two sons,. John Bamhart. Lake Jackson. and Bryan Barnhart, Athens; a daughter, Joy
Cobb, Deer Park: two brothers, H L. Barnhart, Pasadena, and : W E. Bamhart. San Antonio; four sisters. Mrs. H. B. Hilliard, Mesa, Ariz..
Mrs. Mae Patchin, Shreveport, La., Mrs. Lennie Wood. Miami. Fl., and Mrs. Vonnie Whitaker, Nacogdoches; six grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. .
Masons will serve as pallbearers.
[The Tyler Courier-Times, Tyler, TX, 12 May 1985, Sun, Page 10]
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(courtesy of 'Arbozine')Grave markers for
Aubrey L. "Cotton" Barnhart in the Lone Star Cemetery, Nacogdoches
(Nacogdoches county), Texas.
Aubrey enlisted in the Army on 28 November 1942 and
was assigned to Service Company, 508th at Camp Blanding, FL.
With the exception of a few periods of Detached Service, Pvt (later
T5) Barnhart remained with the company throughout WWII.
Pfc Barnhart received the Bronze Service Arrowhead
device for participation in Normandy assault. T5 Barnhart was
awarded the Purple Heart for a wound sustained in Holland on 24
November 1944.
T5 Barnhart was discharged on 10 November 1945. |
