Another Hero Left Us Today :-(

[xlr8]

Very sorry for your loss, Byron.

[nikita76]

Byron,

Sorry for your loss. You have a great circle of people that you have been able to grow with and from. You are fortunate in knowing them, and we are fortunate in knowing you.

Be well,

ND

[VINMAN]

So sorry for your loss Brother . You're a good dude.

RIP, Colonel

[Racerbvd]

Thanks guys, the fact that I had a gig tonight and had to look all smiley and happy was the hardest part of dealing with today, but fortunately, I was working with some great people, so Nikita is correct about the people I surround myself with, which does help, but nothing fills the growing void.

[Racerbvd]

Well, this has been the biggest cluster that one can imagine, here is the edited obit.

Former Warsaw resident Dr. John David Fielding, died Saturday, December 10, in Jacksonville, Fla. He was 75 years old.
Dr. Fielding graduated from Xavier High School in 1954, from Xavier University in 1958 and from the University of Louisville Medical School in 1962. After interning at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, he entered the U.S. Air Force as Chief of Pediatrics, Lincoln Air Force Base, Nebraska.
Upon his discharge in 1965, he established a family practice in Warsaw and served as Director of the Carroll County Memorial Hospital and as deputy coroner for Gallatin County. He also owned and operated LeeJon and Jonka’s Kennels which produced several collie champions.
He left Gallatin County in 1976 to reenter the U.S. Air Force and earned his wings as a flight surgeon. He was also deputy hospital commander and mobile hospital commander and obtained the rank of 06. In addition, he became certified as a Hyperbarics physician and directed the Hyperbarics chamber at Wright Pat Air force Base. He was also a physician professor of aviation medicine at Wright State University.
He served with the 23rd Test Wing at England Air Force Base and the 4950th Test Wing at Wright pat Air force Base in Ohio. He was awarded several military commendations and medals during his career with the USAF.
Throughout his career, Dr. Fielding never lost his interest in emergency medicine and continued to serve part time and full time in that capacity in hospitals in Kentucky, Ohio, Louisiana and Georgia.
He was proud of the years he was a physician in Warsaw and often spoke of his friends and experiences there. He held a great fondness for the area and always made an effort to visit old acquaintances when he was in the area spending time with family.
He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Karen Oberding Fielding; two sons, John David Fielding III, and Mark Anthony Fielding, both of Independence; two daughters, Michelle Marie Fielding-Cooper of Hebron and Amie Fielding of Fleming Island, Fla; seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Burial with full military honors will take place at the Veterans National Cemetery in Jacksonville, Fla.
Memorials are suggested to The Passionist Nuns Monastery in Erlanger of the Congregation Ahavath Chesed of Jacksonville, Fla.

The burial will be tomorrow, I had to pick up the Col & the Flag for the ceremony in the monrning but it gave the Col a chance to ride in the Carrera, as he wanted to but was never really up to it. It was a nice day on the River,
so we just took a little ride along it on the way home..
Please, make sure you goes have made arrangements & have someone to help if your Wives are too upset or you have kids like his No family member should have to deal with this..


Death this time of year is hard enough, but to have pick up a loved one, packed in boxes like Christmas packages makes it that much harder..

[Dana Norris]

God Speed and may all your friends who preceded you be there to welcome you, Col.
Job well done..... 21 guns

[azasadny]

You're a good man, Byron!!

[madmmac]

Sometimes hero's wear flip flops, shorts and shades.

My condolences and thanks to you Byron.

[pete3799]

Well done Byron.
I'm sure the Colonel enjoyed the ride.

[Racerbvd]

Thanks Guys, it turned out very nice and he would be happy, he is out in the Country, Farms around (including a Prison farm) near the Airport, so Planes will be flying over..

[Joeaksa]

Praying for him to have fair weather, tailwinds and a good journey.

RIP