
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 3, 1990                   TAG: 9003032543
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE                                LENGTH: Short

PANAMA CRASH VICTIM TO GET HONORS BURIAL

The funeral for a 19-year-old Wytheville man killed in a helicopter crash during a U.S. Army training exercise in Panama will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Barnett Funeral Chapel.

PFC Charles Durward Allison, a 1988 graduate of George Wythe High School, was one of nine people killed on the night of Feb. 21 in a crash near Punta Diego. He was in the 7th Infantry Division based at Fort Ord, Calif.

The Army reported that the helicopter had run into thunderstorms during its training mission.

Allison will be buried with military honors in the Davis Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the Barnett Funeral Home today from 7 to 9 p.m.

Memorial gifts honoring Allison are being made to the American Red Cross, in care of Ruby Freeman at Sovran Bank here.

He was a son of Charles E. and Sandra C. Allison of Wytheville. Survivors include sisters, Angela Dawn Crigger and Constance Delane Allison of Wytheville and Kristyna P. Tolbert of Bastian, and brother, Gene Douglas Malone Jr., Wytheville.

- Southwest bureau

by CNB