Ouachita-Morehouse County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....TORBERT, AL COURTNEY September 24, 2008
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AL COURTNEY TORBERT-RETIRED

USAF M/SGT.

Cox Funeral Home

Bastrop, Louisiana

Born in Ulysses, Kansas March 5, 1931 and died September 24, 2008 at St. 
Francis Hospital, Monroe, LA.

Funeral services will be held 1 P.M. Saturday September 27, 2008 at the Chapel 
of Cox Funeral Home, Bastrop, LA with visitation beginning at 11 A.M. at the 
funeral home. Interment will be at 4 P.M. Saturday at the Greenwood Cemetery, 
Ruston, LA. Al's friend, Rev. Ramon Warren will officiate.

Al lived most of his early years in Ruston, LA, graduating from Ruston High 
School where his No 31 was usually visible on the Bearcat football field on 
Friday nights. He loved the sport and all of his 1947-1950 Bearcat team mates.

Al and Jackie (Lazarus) were married in Ruston January 27, 1955 and departed 
for Sacramento, CA. to begin an incredilble life of 53 years together. Al 
enlisted in the US Air Force in 1951 and proudly served until his retirement 
in 1971 as a M/Sgt. and Reciprocal Engine Supervisor. He served his country 
during Operation Redwing nuclear testing at Enewetak Island, and was a Korean 
War Veteran as well as a Viet Nam veteran. While in the Air Force he was 
stationed at McClellan AFB and Travis AFB in CA, Connallly AFB in TX, Yokota 
AFB in Japan and Ramstein AFB in Germany.

Retirement in Bastrop brought many hours of square dancing with the Belles and 
Beaus and many more playing canasta when the group developed bad knees and 
fragile bones. His delight was camping and fishing at Lake Chicot County Park 
with all his AR and Bastrop friends. Al's great sense of humor endeared him to 
everyone and he had many friends that will long remember his smiling face.

Preceding Al in death: his parents Paul and Helen Torbert, Sisters; Phyllis 
Kirkland, Ruthye Futrell, and Paula Robinson, Sister-in-law; Sydney Lazarus 
Parker, Nephew; Wesley Futrell.

Al is survived by his wife Jackie, a son Paul and his children Dean, Anna, 
Dana, and Lana, two daughters; Melanie Torbert, Allison Torbert Beeler, her 
husband Michael and their children Alexandra and Ariel. Nephews; Buddy and 
Bruce Parker, Cal Futrell, and David Robinson, neices; Valinda Parker Sears, 
Jamie Robinson, Katherine Neale, Julie Taub, Lisa Langley, and Leslie 
McCallister, and Brothers-in-law Colvin Futrell and Rob Robinson, our extended 
family, and loving cousins Jimbo and Mary Sue Colvin, Jim and Becky Collins.

Serving as pallbearers are: Max Lucas, George Winnon, James Merritt, Billy 
Sisson, Gale Garrett, and Virgil Williamson.

Honorary pallbearers are: Johnny Bond, Jimmy Whittington, Charles Kelly, and 
Nat Little.

The family extends a special thank you to everyone who donated blood in his 
name.

Any planned memorials may be made to:

John Andrew Colvin Memorial Scholarship Fund University of Louisiana at Monroe 
Foundation, 700 University Ave. Monroe, LA 71209.



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