CHAUNCEY B. WHITEHEAD

WHITEHEAD, Col. Chauncey ""Chuck"" B. died onFebruary 25, 2010 at hisdaughters home in PikeRoad. Funeral services will beheld on Tuesday, March 2,2010 at 11:00 AM at Leak-Memory Chapel. Burial willfollow in Greenwood Cemetery with Full Military Honors.Visitation will be on Monday,March 1, 2010 from 5:00 PM -7:00 PM at Leak-Memory Chapel. Col. Whitehead is survived by his wife Eve PerryWhitehead, his daughtersMarguerite Whitehead Edwards of Pike Road, Alabamaand Mary Lynn WhiteheadThorington of Andalusia, Alabama. In addition, Col. Whitehead is survived by fourgrandchildren, Lynelle Akridge Wright of Trenton, Fla.,John Whitehead Akridge ofAndalusia, Alabama, HeatherSpangler Main, of Wantage,Oxfordshire, England, andWinston Whitehead Edwardsof Montgomery, Alabama .He is also survived by sevengreat grandchildren, Tyler Akridge Wright, Morgan RoseWright, Jonathan David Akridge, John David FrancisClubb, Chesney Clubb, Winston Wylie Edwards and Spangler Whitehead Edwards. Born August 17, 1915 in Starkville, Mississippi, he wasraised in Winfield, Alabamaand attended college at Texas A&m University and TheUniversity of Texas where heearned a Bachelor of Science. Following his graduation, Col. Whitehead studiedart in New York for two years.In 1940 he joined the UnitedStates Army Air Corps as a Flying Cadet and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on May 29, 1941. He wasmarried to his late wife, LucileIrene Spangler in 1942. Heserved in the Army Air Corps,later the United States AirForce, for thirty years, rising tothe rank of Colonel before hisretirement in 1971. During hismilitary career he loggedover 2,000 hours as a flight instructor in B-24 Liberators andtrained combat pilots in the B-29 Super Fortress ultimatelylogging over 4,000 hours. Hisduty stations throughout hiscareer included post war Japan, Command Headquarters in Hawaii, the Pentagon,Maxwell Air Force Base andNew York City Department ofPublic Relations. In addition to his military career, Col. Whitehead studiedart for four years at the Art Students League and theAcademy of Fine Arts in NewYork City. In 1971, he traveledthrough Europe spending sixmonths as a student at theAcadamie Grande Chaumiere in Paris, France. Col.Whitehead's artistic work includes sculpture, acrylic andoil painting, pencil and otherunique combinations of various mediums. Col. Whitehead's work has been exhibited in New York City, PalmBeach Florida, Fort Worth, Texas, and Montgomery, Alabama, among other areas.He has also published severalworks of poetry and writingsand is well known for his subliminal works wherein heplaces embossed writing onhis paintings that can only beseen when the correct light isreflected on the canvas. Heserved as a past president ofthe Creative Writers of Montgomery, and was a life timemember of the Art StudentsLeague of New York and wasa charter member of the Order of the Dadalians and TheQuiet Birdmen. He will be remembered as an innovatorand a man with a thirst fortravel and expression ofthought.Leak-Memory ChapelDirectingwww.leak-mc.com