NAME: LOUIS WILLIS PELLEGRINI, AGE 89 AND OF THE LEHIGH AREA\

BORN: DECEMBER 13, 1917 TO ERNESTO PELLEGRINI AND CLOTILDE (ENERITTO) PELLEGRINI, LEHIGH PASSED AWAY: MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2007 AT HIS HOME IN LEHIGH AGE: 89 YEARS 8 MONTH AND 7 DAYS EDUCATION: HE GRADUATED FROM LEHIGH HIGH SCHOOL OCCUPATION: RETIRED MILITARY FROM THE US ARMY AIR CORP. WORKED FOR VOTO FORD AS MECHANIC. AND HAD WORKED FOR AN OIL CO IN TULSA. CHURCH AFFILIATION: MEMBER OF ST. PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. MILITARY: JOINED THE ARMY AIR CORP DURING WWII. SERVED AS CREW CHIEF ON A B-24 LIBERATER BOMBER EARNING THE BRONZE STAR MEDAL. CAME HOME FOR A SHORT TIME AND WAS CALLED BACK IN SERVICE FROM THE RESERVES. HE WAS AWARDED THE AIR FORCE COMMENDATION MEDAL WHILE SERVING WITH THE THIRD TACTICAL FIGHTER WING IN BIEN HOA VIETNAM. RETIRED FROM THE U.S.A.F. AS A MASTER SERGEANT. HE WAS A LIFETIME MEMBER OF POST 1198, COALGATE. SURVIVED BY SISTER: ISABELLE MOUNT, TULSA ALONG WITH NUMEROUS NIECES, NEPHEWS, COUSINS, AUNTS AND UNCLES AND MANY DEAR AND LOVED FRIENDS. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: ERNESTO AND CLOTILDE PELLEGRINI BROTHERS: NICOLINO AND JOHNNY PELLEGRINI SISTERS: MARGARET PELLEGRINI, TERESINA VOTO, ERNESTINE PELLEGRINI, AND JULIA PELLEGRINI

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DATE OF SERVICES: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2007 AT 1:00 PM PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL, ATOKA PLACE OF INTERMENT: LEHIGH CEMETERY OFFICIATING: BRO. ARVEL HALL CASKETBEARERS: MIKE MOUNT, JAY VOTO, DR. JAYSON VOTO, DR. JOE DON VOTO, SCOTTY MOUNT, RICK SHAHAN HON. CASKETBEARERS: DR. DON RIPPEE, DON SAIN, MIKE HENSLEY, MIKEY KOZAK, RILEY TOWNSEND