Obituary

Inman, Alvin, Memorial Park ? C, 150

Graveside services for Alvin Inman, 82, will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Plainview Memorial Park with Floyd Stumbo, an elder at Broadway Church of Christ in Lubbock, officiating. Burial arrangements are by Lemons Funeral Home. Mr. Inman died Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1999, in Prairie House Living Center.

He was born Aug. 21, 1917, in Wheeler. He joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 and was a member of the Ninth Bombardment Group at Fort Sill, Okla. He did flight training in Dalhart and later was in combat flight training school for B-17s for two years. He arrived on Tinian Island, from where the Enola Gay took off to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on Dec. 28, 1944 and worked in refueling. He began flying bombing missions on Feb. 6, 1945.

He moved to Plainview in 1946 and owned and operated a well service and trucking company for many years. He was a member of Ninth and Columbia Church of Christ.

On Dec. 24, 1937, he married Evelyn Johnson in Pampa.

Survivors include his wife; a sister, Reba Black of Dumas; a brother and sister-in-law, Elmer H. and Evelyn Inman of Denver, Colo.; a brother-in-law and his wife, John L. and Marion Johnson of Groom; two other sisters-in-law, Welhelmena Babcock of Kermit and Earlene Childers of Coleman; three nieces and their husbands, Dr. Bill and Cynthia Byrd of Amarillo, Dr. John and Sweetie Costanzi of Austin and Mary and Jerry Bartley of Plano; two nephews, Bobby Richardson of Amarillo and Joe Babcock and his wife, Betty, of Hobbs, N.M.
A sister, Verna Mae Richardson, is deceased.