John E. Price

John E. Price passed away on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. John, a retired optometrist, was born in Dallas, Texas on October 18, 1923. He was the only child of John E. Price, Sr., and Lois Willcox Price. He met Mable Grace Burnett, his future wife, while he was a cadet in the Air Corps Navigation School at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL.John was awarded the Purple Heart, the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Prisoner of War Medal, Victory Medal and European Theater Medal with three campaign stars. After being sent to U. S. Army’s McCloskey General Hospital in Temple, TX, he and Mable were reunited and later were married in the hospital chapel. Much later, in 2014, the Republic of France awarded John the medal of Knight in the French Order of Legion of Honor.Not long after their marriage and his release from active duty, John and Mable moved to Chicago where he attended Northern Illinois College of Optometry, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Optometry in 1949. Their firstborn, the twins, Judy and Carolyn were born in Chicago while John was a student there. After graduation and their return to Texas, John practiced optometry for a few years in Amarillo, where their daughter, Nancy, was born, and then in 1953 they moved to Paris, Texas, where he practiced for ten years. They moved to Ft. Worth in 1963. He practiced optometry at the Ridglea branch of Texas State Optical, on Camp Bowie Blvd., buying that office and operating it until 1988, and then was semi-retired until fully retiring at the end of 2003, after almost fifty five years of practice. They moved to Georgetown in 2011, where Mable, John’s wife of 68 years died in 2013.A man of several hobbies, John was a licensed amateur radio operator since 1957, holding an Advanced Class operators license. He had taken a great interest in genealogy in later years and was a long time member of the Disabled American Veterans and Chapter 1919 of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. (http://www.purpleheartaustin.org/price.htm) John was preceded in death by his parents and two grandchildren. Survivors include his daughters Judy McKinney, and her husband, Howard. of Austin, TX, Carolyn Cherry and her husband, Atwood, of Georgetown, TX, and Nancy Sue Alloway, and her husband, Wesley, of Killeen, TX, five grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. The family would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and hospice at Baylor Scott and White in Round Rock, Texas, for the wonderful care they gave our Dad and his family.A memorial service is planned for June 8, 2019, 3:00 PM, at Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown, Texas. Interment will be at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please consider a gift to Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown, or to Baylor Scott and White Hospital in Round Rock Texas. You may leave a message or memory in the online guestbook at www.gabrielsfuneral.com