More detail on this person: Graveside services
with full Military Honors for William C. (Jim)
Chambliss will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, June 4,
2010, at the National Cemetery, Pineville, with
Father Steve Brando and Chaplain Ray Gibson
officiating. Burial will be under the direction of
Hixson Brothers, Alexandria.
Mr. Chambliss, 84, of Dry Prong, passed away
Saturday, May 29, 2010, at the VA Palative Care
Unit, Pineville.
He served in the 82nd Airborne Division for eight
years and he was a 1st Sergeant prior to attending
Flight School. Jim graduated from Flight School,
Class 55-G as a Warrant Officer, W-1 at Fort
Rucker, Alabama in 1955. After Flight School, Jim
went to Fort Benning, Georgia. He was a Chief
Warrant Officer, W-2 and a Rotary Wing Pilot
assigned to the 11th Transportation Company (Light
Helicopter) (H-34) at Nellingen, Germany in 1957,
when as a member of a flight from the 11th that
was supporting NATO, he ended up in the hospital
at Rjuken, Norway after he crashed a CH-34
helicopter on a mountain in central Norway and was
rescued by Sp Thomas D. Walsh, the Crew Chief
from another 11th Transportation Company CH-34
helicopters that jumped onto the crash sight in
August of 1957. After leaving Germany and the 11th
in 1960, Jim was assigned to the 3rd
Transportation Company (Light Helicopter) (H-21)
at Fort Belvoir, Virginia and three months later
was assigned to the Presidential Flight Detachment
while he was at Fort Belvoir in 1960 to 1965. Jim
graduated from the Helicopter Instrument
Qualification Course, the Instrument Examiner's
Course and the Fixed Wing Qualification Course at
Fort Rucker. He was assigned as a Chief Warrant
Officer, W-3 to USARV in South Vietnam in 1966.
After leaving Vietnam, Jim went to Fort Wolters,
Texas where he retired as a Chief Warrant Officer,
W-3 on the 30th of September, 1968. After
retirement, he flew ten years in the Gulf of
Mexico for Air Logistics Helicopters.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one
brother and six sisters.
Those left to cherish his memory include his wife
of 26 years, Marty Chambliss; daughter, Tammy
Beruber and husband Bill of Ft. Worth, Texas,
stepdaughters, Brenda Hewitt and husband John of
San Antonio, Cindy Chudj of Ft. Worth, Texas;
stepsons, John Bates and wife Rachel of Lafayette,
Scott Bates of Birmingham, Alabama, Mark Bates
of Richmond, Virginia; stepgrandchildren, Heather
Hewitt, Chad and Chance Chudj, Ben Bates,
Brandon Bates, Sheldon Bates, Colton Bates; three
great step-grandchildren.
To extend online condolences to the Chambliss
family, please visit us at www.hixson
brothers.com.
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