Willian Kenneth Griffin Obituary (1930

Colonel William Kenneth Griffin, USAF, (ret.), age 82, passed away on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Col. Griffin was born in Brownsville, Texas on Easter morning April 20th, 1930. He was the son of Raymond and Rubye Smith Griffin. He joined the Air Force as a young man when it was still called the Army Air Corps. His flight instructors were World War II fighter pilots. He met and married his wife, MaryJane in 1956 in Florida. He and his new wife moved to Spain so that he could be part of a photo mapping group that made aerial maps of the country. During his years in the Air Force, his unit made maps of Spain, Columbia, and Ethiopia and flew over Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. After 30 years of service, he retired to Boerne in 1979. He was a past president of the Boerne Optimist Club and served as Chairman of the local Red Cross. He and his wife were antique dealers in Comfort, Texas. He was a man of many talents and a restorer of many three legged chairs. Preceded in death by his parents, his wife, MaryJane and brother, Charles Griffin, Col. Griffin is survived by his son, Paul Griffin and his wife, Susan; daughter, Anne Hollis and her husband, Richard and granddaughter, Isabella Hollis. The Visitation will be on Tuesday, March 26 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Vaughan"s Funeral Home. The Funeral Service will be on Wednesday, March 27 at 2:00 p.m. at Vaughan"s Funeral Home. The Graveside Service with Full Military Honors will be on Thursday, March 28 at 11:15 a.m. at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that Memorials be made to the American Red Cross.