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Vernon Halbert Agee

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Vernon Halbert Agee

Birth
Licking, Texas County, Missouri, USA
Death
27 Dec 1989 (aged 70)
San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
Burial
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Services will be held at 3pm Saturday in the chapel of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary for Vernon H Agee, 70, of Nipomo who died Wednesday in a San Luis Obispo hospital after a lengthy illness. Cremation will follow, with private inurnment at a later date.

Mr Agee was born in Licking, MO and lived in Santa Maria from 1948 to 1963. He had been a resident of Nipomo for the past two years.

He received his pilot's license at the age of 16 and had been a certified flying instructor since 1938. During the late 1930s and early 1940s he taught flying at the Hancock School of Aeronautics.

He served in the US Army Air Corps during World War II as a B-26 pilot in the Pacific Theater. He served as a sergeant on the California Highway Patrol from 1948 until his retirement in 1959 and was Chief of Police at the Port Hueneme Seabees facility from 1963 until retiring in 1982.

Survivors include his widow Marvalene Agee, Nipomo; daughters Brenda M Black, Taft; Carole A Reynolds, Sacramento; son N Wayne Agee, Katy, TX; sister Helen Larson, San Luis Obispo; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews.

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Obituary from the Santa Maria Times online archives, published 28 Dec 1989
Services will be held at 3pm Saturday in the chapel of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary for Vernon H Agee, 70, of Nipomo who died Wednesday in a San Luis Obispo hospital after a lengthy illness. Cremation will follow, with private inurnment at a later date.

Mr Agee was born in Licking, MO and lived in Santa Maria from 1948 to 1963. He had been a resident of Nipomo for the past two years.

He received his pilot's license at the age of 16 and had been a certified flying instructor since 1938. During the late 1930s and early 1940s he taught flying at the Hancock School of Aeronautics.

He served in the US Army Air Corps during World War II as a B-26 pilot in the Pacific Theater. He served as a sergeant on the California Highway Patrol from 1948 until his retirement in 1959 and was Chief of Police at the Port Hueneme Seabees facility from 1963 until retiring in 1982.

Survivors include his widow Marvalene Agee, Nipomo; daughters Brenda M Black, Taft; Carole A Reynolds, Sacramento; son N Wayne Agee, Katy, TX; sister Helen Larson, San Luis Obispo; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews.

Newspapers.com Publishers Extra
Obituary from the Santa Maria Times online archives, published 28 Dec 1989


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