Miles J. Frisinger

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Byrd Funeral Home

3409 W. Main Street

Dothan, Alabama 36305

334.793.3003

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Miles Junior Frisinger

Miles J. Frisinger, Colonel United States Air Force (retired), a resident of Dothan, died Sunday, December 11, 2011, at Extendicare Health and Rehabilitation Center in Dothan. He was 93.

Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at Byrd Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Bob Gross officiating. Interment with full military honors will follow in Memory Hill Cemetery with Byrd Funeral Home on West Main directing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 1:00 until 1:45 p.m. Wednesday prior to services. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be sent to the First Baptist Church Music Department, 300 West Main Street, Dothan, AL 36301.

Miles was born August 8, 1918 in Ft. Wayne, IN, to Monte Miles and Elmina Jane Frisinger and graduated from South Side High School in 1937.

After graduating from high school he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the grades Private through 1^st Sergeant. He then entered the Air Corps Officer Candidate School and graduated June 1942 with a 2^nd Lieutenants commission. He served at Headquarters Alaskan Air Command, Headquarters Air Force Logistics Command, Headquarters Strategic Command and several other stateside organizations. In 1943, he received the Army Commendation award in support of B17 aircraft; United States Air Force Commendation in 1952 for organizing a cold weather fighter squadron fly-away kit and in 1963 for overall supply support to a B52 wing training organization. He was selected as the Air Force outstanding Supply Officer in 1963. He graduated from the United States Air Force Command and Staff College and Logistics Staff Officer School at Maxwell Air Force Base. His overseas tours included Japan, Korea, Panama Canal Zone and Alaska. He retired in 1963 with the grade of Colonel.

Miles worked 52 months in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for Tumpane Company establishing an automated supply software for the Saudi Arabian Army Ordinance Depot. He was the Tumpane Company general manager at Air Force Plant 42 at Palmdale, California, after which he worked 10 years at Ft. Rucker for the Northrop and Sikorsky Support Services. In 1989, he commenced working for Sikorsky in Riyadh, where he wrote the automated procedures for the Saudi Arabian Army fixed wing organization.

Miles was an active member of First Baptist serving as treasurer, secretary, and president of the Thomas White Sunday School class. His love of organ music lead to the creation of a home with a large music room which would accommodate his theatre pipe organs. He taught himself to maintain, as well as play, these organs.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mae Barnette Johnson, a sister, Phyllis Marie McKnight; stepsister, Jean Guddat; stepson, Les Hutto and son-in-law, Robert Stormont.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley Guy Frisinger; two daughters, Karen Thurston (Charles) Shawnee, Kansas, and Betsy Stormont, Norman, Oklahoma; two stepdaughters, Terri Hutto Shores, (Wallace) Cottondale, Florida and Jennifer Hutto Clemmons (Bill) of Rehobeth, AL; 4 granddaughters; 4 grandsons; 4 great-grandchildren; a niece and nephew.

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