RALLS (Special) — Services for retired Lt. Col. Jim Scott Travis, 69, of Ralls will be at 4 p.m. Monday in Carter-Adams Funeral home with the Rev. Hulan Bass, pastor of Bethel Primitive Baptist Church near Lockhart, officiating.
Burial will be in Ralls Cemetery.
Travis died at 10:15 p.m. Friday, July 23, 1993, in Lubbock's Methodist Hospital.
He was born Nov. 13, 1923, in Belton and graduated from Ralls High School. He attended Wayland Baptist College, Western Texas College, Southwest Texas State University, Mississippi State University, George Washington University and Le Sorbonne College in France.
He was appointed aviation cadet in 1942 and received his pilot training at Kelley Field in San Antonio and Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock. He was appointed command pilot in 1958. He was a U.S. Army Air Force veteran of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He was a flight instructor, corporate pilot and flight commander for California Eastern Airways. He had been a Dallas Police Officer and Crosby County Deputy Sheriff and was alderman for the City of Ralls and Justice of the Peace in Crosby County.
Survivors include many cousins.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, July 25, 1993
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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