Graveside service: 10 a.m. Tuesday in Lonesome Dove Cemetery in Southlake. Memorial service: 2 p.m. Tuesday at Christ Chapel Bible Church, 3701 Birchman Ave., Fort Worth. Open visitation: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at Shannon Rufe Snow Funeral Chapel, with family receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m.
Memorials: Memorial gifts may be made to Cornerstone Ministries or TCU Biology Department.
Don was born July, 27, 1947, in Monahans to Joseph A. and Bobbie R. Day. He was a graduate of Baylor University and Texas Christian University. He served in the Air Force as a command pilot and flying squadron commander. He married Vickie Lunsford in 1980 and was the proud father of Jody and Amy Day. He took great joy in his family, church, friends and co-workers.
He contributed to aviation fields from flight training to operational flight testing and from airspace and procedures development to environmental impact studies. He enjoyed teaching several years as an adjunct professor at TCU. He served in many capacities in his church, teaching Sunday school and Bible study for many years.
Survivors: He was loved and cherished and is survived by his wife of 33 years, Vickie Day; son, Jody Day and his wife, Julie, and their sons, Charlie and David, of Dallas; daughter, Amy Day Radtke and her daughter, Jordan, and Jeff Patton and their son, Jeffrey, of Plano; and his children's mother, Judy Short of Dallas. He is also survived by his mother, Bobbie Day of Fort Worth; and his brother, Dale, his wife, Eleanor, and their daughter, Katie, of Corpus Christi.
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