Judge Paul Stephen Kendall

Funeral: 3 p.m. Tuesday at Moore Funeral Home with interment to follow in Moore Memorial Gardens. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Moore Funeral Home.

Memorials: The family asks that donations be sent Autistic Treatment Center, 10503 Metric Drive, Dallas, Texas 75243-5514. Judge Kendall touched many lives both in and out of the military service. He was a very devoted father and husband. He was greatly respected and was an advocate for the handicapped.

Mr. Kendall had served as an administrative law judge in the office of Hearing and Appeals in Dallas and retired from this position in May 2008. Before becoming an administrative law judge, Mr. Kendall had worked for Social Security writing judicial decisions. Judge Kendall served as an intelligence officer in the Air Force from 1967 until he married Helene in 1969. Thereafter, he attended law school at St. Mary's University in San Antonio and graduated in 1973 with a juris doctorate degree. Judge Kendall remained on active duty while attending law school. After receiving his juris doctorate, he was transferred to Clark Air Base, Philippines, where their youngest son, Stephen Michael Kendall, was born in 1979. He was transferred back to Lackland Air Force Base in 1983. Judge Kendall had a long and distinguished career in government service. He moved to Arlington in 1986.

Judge Kendall was preceded in death by a son, Stephen Michael, in 1996 and a brother, Dr. Alan Kendall of Moline, Ill.

Survivors: His wife, Helene Kendall of Arlington; son, Christopher Kelly Kendall, 35, of Dallas, Autism Treatment Center; brother, David, Linda and Michael Kendall of Silvis, Ill.