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- Billy Emmett Vance, Lt Col, United States Air Force (retired), 95, passed away 20 October 2011 at Brooke Army Medical Center (he still called it "Brooke General") in San Antonio. He was born 28 December 1915, in San Antonio TX to George Milton Vance and Leona Pearl Sutton Vance. He was preceded in death by his parents; his step-mother, Florence Beatrize Heath Vance Shaw; brother, Jean Sutton Vance; sisters, Mildred Ruth Vance Saathoff, June Vance, and Ramona Mae Vance Buchanan and his children's mother, Josephine Mathilda Trager Jarrett. He is survived by his wife, Jane Eloise Helms Vance (Maj USAF, Ret) of Marion; daughter, Jo Anne Vance Hyatt of Pipe Creek; sons, Fred Milton Vance and wife Bonnye of Bulverde, and Brian Arthur Vance and wife Carol of Austin; granddaughters, Darleen Marie Dixon Griffin and husband Jimi of Port Aransas, and Michelle Yvonne Dixon Pierce and husband Darrell of Hondo; great-grandson, Devin William Griffin of New Braunfels; brother, Jack Milton Vance of San Antonio; sisters, Leona Rose Vance of Boerne, and Violet Maradel Vance Page and husband Richard of Boerne; many nieces and nephews; and a host of friends and fellow patriots
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