PRYOR WALLACE A

WO1 Wallace A. Pryor was a potential member who died during training before going to Vietnam on 08/13/1968 from Auto accident
Fort Riley, KS
Flight Classes 68-503 and 68-1
Served in the U.S. Army
This information was provided by Gregory B. Moody

More detail on this person: Wallace A Pryor died in a car accident while we were the 297th... he was in 68-503 also I believe.... he was certainly out at the Ft. Rucker training fields... He was related to a well known TV personality in Austin Texas... one of the first and longest serving people at the TV station owned by LBJ... and he was just as entertaining.... always keeping everyone laughing... he died driving from the cockpit club at Riley to Manhattan where he lived...and I was driving the same road about 20 minutes after he did... the highway patrol was at the scene but no ambulance had arrived yet... it was the only black MGB I had ever seen... so I only had to ask if it was a fatality... it had to be his car...

From: Gregory B. Moody

Burial information: Dermott City Cemetery, Dermott, AR

This information was last updated 04/04/2020

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Date posted on this site: 03/10/2024