1LT ALVIN B. STOREY, II, USAF
Lucky Bag Yearbook
From the 1955 Lucky Bag:
ALVIN BRIGGS STOREY II
Loss
Alvin was killed on February 26, 1958 when the B-47 Stratojet he was aboard crashed outside of Lockbourne AFB, PA.
Other Information
From researcher Kathy Franz:
Alvin enrolled in the Cumberland Branch of the Naval Reserve in the fall of 1949. He transferred to the Washington Naval District, Submarine Division in June 1950.
That month, he graduated from Allegany High School. He sang tenor and was accompanist at a Hi-Y club program. As treasurer of the Hi-Y Club, he was named in February by the Maryland YMCA to a state-wide committee to make plans for the 1949 “model legislature” held in Annapolis. He participated as a senator.
Previously, in January, Alvin participated in a panel discussion at the bimonthly meeting of the Business and Professional Woman’s Club. His subject was “Control of the Atom Bomb.”
After high school, he participated in submarine maneuvers at the U.S. Submarine Base in New London, Connecticut. He then attended The Bullis School in Silver Spring, Maryland.
In June 1951, he secured his appointment to the Naval Academy as a result of a national scholastic competitive examination via the United Sates Naval Reserve. He ranked 53rd nationally.
From the Charlotte Observer, on February 27, 1958:
LT. Storey was born Sept. 20, 1932, at Cumberland, Md. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1955 and was married the same year to the former Miss Frances Ann Sudduth of Washington, D.C.
Survivors include his father , a Celanese Corporation executive here; his mother, his wife Francis Ann, a daughter, Lynn, 2; a sister, Edith Ellen, of the home, and a brother, Frederick, of Chicago, Ill.
(The article spelled his wife’s name as both “Frances” and “Francis”)
He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Photographs
Remembrances
In “From Lockbourne to Heaven in a B-47”:
My mother and father were 26 at the time, and by all accounts very happy. The morning of the crash, my mother said she “knew something was wrong, or was going to happen.” After my father left for work as usual, she looked at a shirt of his and had a foreboding feeling. When later that day two men in uniform came to the door, she knew what they were there for. She said I asked for my father many times; caring for me was what got her through those days, she said. …
What happened to my father has been a deep part of me all my life, but I suppose there have always been questions unanswered. I know my mother was told very little about the crash or related details, and I never thought she recovered from the grief. Most of all, I miss knowing him, I believe he was exceptional in many ways…" Lyn Holmes, daughter
Family
Alvin was survived by his wife and daughter, Lyn Holmes (as of October 2012).
Much information in “From Lockbourne to Heaven in a B-47”, a (online-only?) book written by the flight command’s son and updated in 2013.
Alvin is one of 34 members of the Class of 1955 on Virtual Memorial Hall.
