Arthur Richard Chilcott

Arthur Richard Chilcott, Jr. has left us to enter a more direct service to his Lord on June 7, 2002 after a valiant battle with complications following surgery, respiratory distress and cardiac arrest. A lifelong resident of San Antonio, he was born to Arthur R. Chilcott, Sr. and Anna Rosebelle Hans on October 6, 1930. He was a 1948 graduate of Tech High School and had also attended Brackenridge High School. Just prior to his death he had been attending Sourthern Methodist University's Extension School, taking courses in computer programming. A two-time polio survivor, Mr. Chilcott was an employee of Kelly AFB for 48 years primarily as a Material Maintenance and Logistics Specialist receiving numerous awards for excellence of performance. He retired in the advent of the millennium. He has sung with both of the choirs at St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Our Lady of the Atonement Catholic Church. He has served on the PDAP Parent's Steering Committee and was a participant in Alanon. An avid music lover and enthusiastic traveler he particularly enjoyed attending the opera and exploring antebellum homes with his wife of fifty-one years, Mary Lucille Chilcott. He was also a compulsive reader of detective fiction and a crossword puzzle aficionado. A devoted brother, husband and father, he will be sorely missed. A brother, Leonard I. Dixon and a sister, Marie Dixon, preceded him in death. A brother, Thomas P. Dixon of Ashland, Oregon, his wife, a San Antonio native and resident, two sons, Richard Sidney Chilcott of the Bronx, New York and Anthony Paul Chilcott of Brady Texas, grandchildren Christian Davis Chilcott of Atlanta, Georgia and Emma Blaine Caragonne-Chilcott of Brady, Texas and numerous nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews survive him.