I would like to add some information about my father.
He was my stepfather but I never knew my real father. He loved me and his grandchildren more than life itself. I would like for you to add that he was survived by his wife, Ethel Ruth Moulton Cowart, daughters, Molly Carter and Sandra Kardatski, Twin Sister, Alice Redman, grandchildren, Susan Kubeczka and Keith Calderon, neice Malinda Redman and nephew Reagan Redman. He was a licensed Steam Engineer and known through out Houston by his reputation. He was a member of Imanuel Luthern Church located in the Heights area of Houston. He was raised in the Heights and he and his twin sister were in the first class to gradudate from John H. Reagan High School which had just opened in their senior year of high school.
above thanks to an emailed suggestion from his step-daughter

Alton was commonly known as "Bud". He had a twin sister, Alice Cowart Redman. They both were in the first graduating class of John H. Reagan High School in Houston, Texas. He won in his senior year the State of Texas penmanship award. His sister was also in the original drum and bugle corp at Reagan High School. Bud was well known in Houston as a Steam Maintenance Engineer and many companies called on him to repair their steam boilers. He was a beloved father and grandfather. He leaves behind his wife, Ethel, daughters, Sandra Kardatski and Molly Carter, granddaughter Susan Goodson and her husband Curtis and grandson Keith Carter and his wife Cheryl, twin sister Alice Cowart Redman, niece Malinda Redman and nephew Reagan Redman. He was in the Construction Batallion of the Navy and was one of the many that built the air strip for General McArthur to land. He was there on that memorial landing.