Individual Details

The Paris News
Tues. July 3, 1942
Pg. 5

Arrangements For Faught Funeral Not Yet Complete
No funeral arrangements for Lieut. Walter R. Faught, Jr., Army Air Corp pilot killed in a transport crash in West Virginia Wednesday, will be made until arrival here of his wife, the former Miss Delores Hassan, sometime Saturday. She is enroute here from Battle Creek, Mich., where Lieut. Faught had been stationed recently.
Lt. Faught, was born in Paris, July 5, 1914, and had lived here all his life except for a few years as a small child when the family lived in various Oklahoma towns.
While attending Paris High School, where he graduated in 1932, he was employed as a Paris News carrier. He was a member of the TKO chapter, in school fraternity. In 1937, he completed a scientific course at Paris Junior College, and was an assistant science instructor.
Later, while employed in the bookkeeping department of First National Bank, he enrolled in the first government-sponsored summer flying class which was opened at the Paris airport, June 10, 1940.
He left here in March, 1941 for California, where he received training for the Army Air Corps Reserve, successively at Hemet, Taft and Stockton. At the later place, he was commissioned a second lieutenant on Oct. 30, 1941. The next day, he married Miss Delores Hassan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hassan of Paris, in the St. Joseph's Episcopal Church, Stockton.
Until recently transferred to Battle Creek, Mich., he had been stationed in Sacramento, as an Army transport pilot.
Surviving are his wife; his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Faught, 159 N. 16th St. here; three sisters, Mrs. Gerald Hackel of Corpus Christi, Misses Dorothy and Alice Faught here, besides his father, Walter R. Faught of San Antonio, and three grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Neville of Paris and Mrs. R. H. Faught of Ft. Towson, Okla.
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2nd Lt. Walter R. Faught, Jr.
Service #O-429776
Branch of Service: U.S. Army
Home of Record: Lamar County, Tx.
Status: Died-Non-Battle
Army transport plane crash at
Premier Mountain, near Welch, W. Va.

Birth	5 Jul 1914	Paris, Lamar County, Texas
Marriage	31 Oct 1941	Dolores Hassan
Death	1 Jul 1942	Premier, McDowell County, West Virginia

Spouse

Dolores Hassan (1919 - 1965)