| Graduation Year | Class of 1965 |
| Date of Passing | Mar 25, 1969 |
| About | William Robert Wilson First Lieutenant D CO, 3RD BN, 1ST INFANTRY, 11 INF BDE Army of the United States 28 August 1947 - 25 March 1969 Alma, Arkansas Panel 28W Line 041 ---------------------------------------- William "Bill" Wilson was in the AHS 1965 class until about the 10th grade. His parents then sent him to Oklahoma Military School (OMA) in Claremore, OK. He came home (Alma) durning the summer so we (David Wofford, Gary Kurkendall, & I) remained close friends. When I was in the Army, 1968 -1971 I went home on Christmas leave 1968 before shipping out overseas. I met the newly commissioned 1st Lt. Bill Wilson my childhood friend at the Temple Theater in Fort Smith. He was home on Christmas leave from the Army. Bill had finished two years of college at OMA (OMA was also a military Jr College) and he went on to the University of Houston for a Bachelors Degree in Engineering & ROTC. I was a E-3, Private First Class and gladly saluted O-2, Lt. Bill Wilson. That was the Christmas of 1968, January of 1969 the Lt. was shot in the back of the head while leading a patrol in Vietnam. Another AHS-65 buried in the Fort Smith National Cemetery. |
