More detail on this person: Lt. Col. (ret)
Robert A. Burbank, age 67 of Rt. 2, Ozark, Ala.,
died Saturday morning May 5, 2001 in the Ozark
Nursing Facility, after a short illness. Memorial
services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the
chapel of Fuqua-Bankston
Funeral Home with Rev. Hossea Parker officiating.
Full military rites will be conducted at the
funeral home.
Lt. Col. (ret.) Burbank was born in Cohassett, Ma.
After graduating from the University of
Massachusetts in 1955, he entered the U.S. Army
and served 22 years as a pilot in various
assignments that included two tours in Korea, one
in Germany and one in Vietnam. While in the U.S.
Army, he earned numerous awards and citations,
and was a graduate of the Army Command and
State College.
Upon retiring from the U.S. Army in 1975, he
turned to a life of civilian aviation becoming
first a flight instructor at Jacksonville Airport
in Jacksonville, Ala., and then moving on to be
the Flight Department Chairman and a student
counselor for the Alabama Aviation and Technical
College in Ozark. During this time he earned two
Masters Degrees, one from Troy State University,
and one from Jacksonville State University.
He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Mrs. B.
Grace Burbank of Ozark; son and daughter-in-law,
Robert A. Burbank, Jr., and Caroline of Bay St.
Louis, Ms.; brother, Howard N. Burbank and his
wife Lillian of West Port, Mass.; three
grandchildren, Kyle Watson Burbank, Taylor Ann
Burbank and Carly Carol Burbank, all of Brandon,
Ms.; father-in-law, Lester Thomley of Malvern;
sisters-in-law, Cynthia Parker and her husband
Husea of Malvern; and Judy Mclendon and her
husband Carl of Ozark; brother-in-law,, Don
Thomley and his wife Debbie of Clewiston, Fla.;
several nieces and nephews.
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