ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA. Obituary for: DEBRUEYS, ALBERT FIELDING Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. Source: The St. Tammany News, St. Tammany, La. Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 ======================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml ======================================================================= NOTE: If a Photo is available for an obituary record, a reference note will be included with the record. =========================================================== DEBRUEYS ========== A photo is available for this file. Please go to http://usgwarchives.net/la/sttammany/obits/dateobits/2012/st1211.htm and click to view list of photos. ========== Retired U.S. Air Force Reserves Lt. Col. Albert Fielding deBrueys, 97, of Slidell died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Werner deBrueys, whom he married in 1999; children and their spouses, Janet Vivian deBrueys and Jerry Bohannan, Glenn Arthur and Mary Beth deBrueys; grandchildren, Brendan Bohannan and Elizabeth deBrueys; great-granddaughter, Claire deBrueys; stepchildren and their spouses, Michael and Donna Terry, Sherry and Sam Roberts, Patricia and Roy Jacobs and Donna Johnny Buckley; 11 stepgrandchildren and eight stepgreat-grandchildren; cousin, Warren deBrueys; godson and nephew and his spouse, Gerald Albert and Patricia Fisher, and other nephews and a niece and their spouses, Robert and Judy Fisher, Richard and Sharon Stierwald and Barbara and Stewart Morlier. He was preceded in death by his wife of 52 years and childhood sweetheart, Vivian Selby deBrueys; parents, Henri Arthur and Janet Balfour deBrueys, and siblings, Arthur deBrueys, Helen D. Stierwald and her husband, Robert, and Janet deBrueys. He was a New Orleans native with a family name that goes back to the early 1800s and along a related line to the 1760s in Louisiana, an Arabi resident for 49 years and a Slidell resident for the past 48 years. The World War II veteran was one of the first pilots to take a plane over Cherbourg, France, to drop paratroopers in D-Day, and he was among the pilots who crossed the English Channel, dropping paratroopers and supplies into France and returning to England with wounded soldiers. He was assigned to U.S. Army Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s air staff in Germany in April of 1945, re-enlisted after the war for another year in California and remained in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. He also worked for the federal government before retirement. He was a founding member of Arabi’s Andrew Jackson Masonic Lodge, where he rose through the positions to serve as master, and Carolyn Park Presbyterian Church and a member of the Masonic Lodge in Slidell, First Presbyterian Church in Slidell and Tammany Twirlers Square Dancers. A memorial service will be Dec. 1 at 11 a.m., with visitation starting at 9 a.m., at Honaker Funeral Home, 1751 W. Gause Blvd., Slidell. Interment will take place in Forest Lawn Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations requested to the National Military Family Association at www.militaryfamily.org. ===================