More detail on this person: CW4 (Retired)
Bobbie Lenville Stanfill, age 72, of Ozark, died
Tuesday evening, Oct. 9, 2007, at Southeast
Alabama Medical Center. Funeral services will be
held Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007, at 5 p.m. in the
Chapel of Holman Funeral Home in Ozark with the
Rev. David R. Saliba officiating. The family will
receive friends at the funeral home from 3:30 to 5
p.m. prior to the service. Interment will be
Monday, Oct. 15, 2007, at 2 p.m. in Franconia
Cemetery at Aliceville with full Military Honors,
Holman Funeral Home of Ozark directing.
Bobbie was born Feb. 5, 1935, in Fruitland, Tenn.,
and grew up in Aliceville. He entered the United
States Army in February 1952 and married Annie
Laura Dean on July 4, 1953. He served three tours
of duty in Vietnam and one in Korea, retiring as a
CW4 at Fort Rucker in July 1984. During his 32
years of service, Bobbie received numerous
distinguished service awards, to include four Good
Conduct Medals, Master Parachutist Badge, Silver
Star, Bronze Star, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, and
the Meritorious Service Medal. He was a member of
the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, N.C.,
where he trained as a paratrooper and a combat
Army medic and earned his Practical Nursing
License. He was in the Army's U.S. Special Forces
- the Green Beret. He graduated from the
helicopter training program in Savannah, Ga., and
later became an instructor pilot and senior flight
instructor. During his last ten years of military
service, he also worked as a civilian LPN at the
Dale Medical Center Emergency Room.
Following his retirement from the armed services,
he was a Medical Technician at Lyster Army
Hospital until his retirement in March 2004. He
attended Southside Baptist Church in Ozark.
Bobbie is survived by his loving wife of 54 years,
Annie Dean Stanfill of Ozark; his son and
daughter-in-law, Bobbie Lenville Jr. and Traci
Stanfill of Kauai, Hawaii; his daughter, Kathy
Leigh Justice of San Antonio, Texas; and daughter
and son-in-law, Janice and Lindsay Beddingfield of
Montgomery; three precious granddaughters, Maria
Grace Beddingfield, Tristen Elaine Presley
Stanfill and Jillian Dayle Presley Stanfill;
brothers and sisters, Agatha Tucker of Birmingham,
Nell Greenley of Lafayette, La., Eva Sims of
Valley, Billy Stanfill of Cleveland, Tenn., Jimmie
Stanfill of Aliceville, and Libby Geeslin of
Columbus, Miss.
The family request that memorials be made in
Bobbie's memory to the Alabama Kidney
Foundation, P. O. Box 12505, Birmingham, AL
35202, or to the Southeastern Diabetes Education
Service, 500 Chase Park South, Suite 104, Hoover,
AL 35244.
Holman Funeral Home of Ozark, (334) 774-5348, is
in charge of arrangements. Sign a guest register
at the Holman Funeral Home website,
www.holmanfuneralhome.com
Published in the Dothan Eagle from 10/11/2007 -
10/13/2007.
He was one of the good guys, always treated the
crews with respect and as equals, possibly
because he had been enlisted and came from the
SF community. I remember him as an "old guy"
that had been around and seen a lot by the time he
got in the 281st. According to his age now, he
would have been 33 then and to a 21 year old that
was ancient. He was the PP and I the CE when we
crashed and totaled 342. He will be missed.
Dean
Completed helicopter maintenance course in Ft.
Eustis, VA after flight school at Hunter AAF.
After Viet Nam, served in Germany, Korea, and Ft.
Rucker as an IP and Senior Flight Instructor.
Retired as CW4 on July 31, 1984, after a total of
32 years of service.
Prior service - enlisted man, Feb. 1952 - Dec.
1968. During this time he served with the 82nd
Airborne in Ft. Bragg, NC and became a master
parachutist and medical specialist. He also served
in Okinawa, Viet Nam, and Thialand with the 5th
Special Forces as a Staff Sgt. E-6.
Post service -During his last ten years of service
he worked as a civilian LPN at Dale County
Hospital, Ozark, AL, and following retirement, he
worked for ten years at Lyster Army Hospital at
Ft. Rucker.
Survivors: Wife, Ann Stanfill, Ozark, AL; son,
Bobbie and wife Traci of Kauai, HI; daughter,
Kathy Justice of San Antonio, TX; daughter Janice
and husband Lindsay Beddingfield of Montgomery,
AL
Bobbie received numerous awards and decorations
including the Master Parachutist Badge, Silver
Star, Bronze Star, Viet Nam Cross of Gallantry,
and the Meritorious Service Metal. He was in the
maintenance department of the 281 AHC and
according to one of the enlisted men, "he was one
of the good guys, possibly because he had been
enlisted and came from the SF community".
Bobbie was well liked by everyone and is missed by
all his family and friends.
From: James W Baker
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