1912
Charles
2013
Charles Sergeant
May 29, 1912 — May 31, 2013
Charles Gordon Sergeant passed away at the age of 101 on Friday, May 31, 2013.
Service: 11 a.m. Thursday at Lucas Funeral Home in Keller. Interment: Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Mr. Sergeant was born May 29, 1912, in Mount Vernon, N.Y., in Sergeant's Apartments to Charles Thomas Sergeant, originally from Hull, England, and Lyda Gordon Sergeant, whose mother's family, the Wilkies, were early settlers of Mount Vernon. Mr. Sergeant greatly enjoyed playing basketball and baseball and graduated from high school in Mount Vernon in 1930. He went to work at First National Bank of Mount Vernon not long before the bank runs that began in New York City in October 1930 at the start of the Depression. He worked as a bank teller until enlisting in 1942 in the Army Air Corps flight instructor program where he learned to fly and was also certified as a B-24 flight engineer. He was honorably discharged in 1944 and went to work at Chance Vought Aircraft in Bridgeport, Conn., where he began working in flight test instrumentation on the venerable F-4U Corsair. Mr. Sergeant moved to Dallas in 1948 when Vought relocated to Grand Prairie. He met his future wife, Virginia Darby of Waco, at a Vought Christmas party and they were married June 8, 1951. While at Vought, he continued to work in flight test instrumentation on Vought's first jet fighter, the F-6 Pirate, as well as on the F7U Cutlass, F-8 Crusader, and A-7 Corsair II along with the XC-142 tilt-wing experimental aircraft. He retired from Vought in 1977 at age 65 and besides playing lots of golf went back to banking part time for Preston State Bank in Dallas until age 88. He was a very active, bright and engaging gentleman right up until his death. He will be greatly missed by his family, friends and associates.
Survivors: Wife, Virginia Darby Sergeant; sons, Charles, Edward, David and James Sergeant; grandchildren, Lynne Evans, Lauren, Edward, Ann, Ryan, Charles, Trevyn and Chainy Sergeant; great-granddaughter, Maggie Evans; nephew, Dick Lloyd; and niece, Jane Jones.
Service: 11 a.m. Thursday at Lucas Funeral Home in Keller. Interment: Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Mr. Sergeant was born May 29, 1912, in Mount Vernon, N.Y., in Sergeant's Apartments to Charles Thomas Sergeant, originally from Hull, England, and Lyda Gordon Sergeant, whose mother's family, the Wilkies, were early settlers of Mount Vernon. Mr. Sergeant greatly enjoyed playing basketball and baseball and graduated from high school in Mount Vernon in 1930. He went to work at First National Bank of Mount Vernon not long before the bank runs that began in New York City in October 1930 at the start of the Depression. He worked as a bank teller until enlisting in 1942 in the Army Air Corps flight instructor program where he learned to fly and was also certified as a B-24 flight engineer. He was honorably discharged in 1944 and went to work at Chance Vought Aircraft in Bridgeport, Conn., where he began working in flight test instrumentation on the venerable F-4U Corsair. Mr. Sergeant moved to Dallas in 1948 when Vought relocated to Grand Prairie. He met his future wife, Virginia Darby of Waco, at a Vought Christmas party and they were married June 8, 1951. While at Vought, he continued to work in flight test instrumentation on Vought's first jet fighter, the F-6 Pirate, as well as on the F7U Cutlass, F-8 Crusader, and A-7 Corsair II along with the XC-142 tilt-wing experimental aircraft. He retired from Vought in 1977 at age 65 and besides playing lots of golf went back to banking part time for Preston State Bank in Dallas until age 88. He was a very active, bright and engaging gentleman right up until his death. He will be greatly missed by his family, friends and associates.
Survivors: Wife, Virginia Darby Sergeant; sons, Charles, Edward, David and James Sergeant; grandchildren, Lynne Evans, Lauren, Edward, Ann, Ryan, Charles, Trevyn and Chainy Sergeant; great-granddaughter, Maggie Evans; nephew, Dick Lloyd; and niece, Jane Jones.
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