Dallas Morning News
Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries




Dallas Morning News
May 27, 1951
Section: Part 1; Page: 9

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PFC. B. W. ALAWINE

DALLAS MARINE LOSES LIFE AS BOAT CAPSIZES

  Pfc. Bobby W. Alawine, 21, of 1621 Hidalgo, was drowned Monday with four 
other Marines when an amphibious vehicle capsized in the surf during a practice
landing operations at Camp Del Mar, Calif., authorities announced Saturday.
  Officers at Camp Pendleton, where Alawine was stationed, said his body was 
found pinned beneath the sunken LVT Friday, the Associated Press reported.
  Funeral arrangements are pending at the Lamar & Smith Funeral Home. Burial 
with military rites will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
  Alawine was born in Paris, Lamar County, and came to Dallas when he was ten
years old.  He left Crozier Technical High School in 1946 to enter the Marine
Corps. 
  After more than a year's service, Alawine was discharged and went to work in
the Dallas parts department of Fruehauf Trailer Company.  He was called back 
into the Marines last October and was assigned to radar duty in California.
  He was married to Miss Joan Willard of Fairfield, Freestone County, on March
6, 1948.
  Surviving are his wife of Dallas; his stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. 
Johnny B. Burnthay of Dallas; his father, S. B. Alawine of Winnsboro, and a
grandfather.