Obituary of CW4 Bobbie Lenville Stanfill

STANFILL, CW4 (Retired) Bobbie Lenville, age 72, of Ozark, died Tuesday evening, October 9, 2007, in Southeast Alabama Medical Center. Funeral services will be held Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Holman Funeral Home in Ozark, Alabama with Reverend David R. Saliba officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. prior to the service. Interment will be Monday, October 15, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. in Franconia Cemetery at Aliceville, Alabama with full Military Honors, Holman Funeral Home of Ozark directing. Bobbie was born February 5, 1935 in Fruitland, Tennessee, and grew up in Aliceville, Alabama. 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 Ft. 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, Alabama; three precious granddaughters, Maria Grace Beddingfield, Tristen Elaine Presley Stanfill and Jillian Dayle Presley Stanfill; seven brothers and sisters, Agatha Tucker of Birmingham, AL; Nell Greenley of Lafayette, LA; Eva Sims of Valley, AL; Billy Stanfill of Cleveland, TN; Jimmie Stanfill of Aliceville, AL, and Libby Geeslin of Columbus, MS. The family request that memorials be made in Bobbie's memory to the Alabama Kidney Foundation, P. O. Box 12505, Birmingham, Alabama 35202, or to the Southeastern Diabetes Education Service, 500 Chase Park South, Suite 104, Hoover, Alabama 35244. Service Information