More detail on this person: Major Carl Eugene
Wolford died at the long beach VA Hospital on July
14, 1982. He is burried at Riverside National
Cementery in riverside, California. In 1980, Carl
had a heart by-pass also at the VA Hospital in
Long Beach. They repaired five blockages and he
did okay until 1982. He then developed an
aneurism and a blood clot. He was in the
Huntington Beach Hospital and they decided to
transfer him to where he had his heart surgery and
had his medical history. He was so thin and they
were trying to build him up so they could do
surgery and before they could do his surgery he
went into a coma and was in a coma for 14 days.
They did a brain scan on him and found the blood
clot had gone to his brain and there was no brain
life. Our five children and I decided to remove
him from the life support, but he died before they
could take him off the life support. That was a
blessing because one sister did not want him taken
off the life support. Our youngest daughter
turned 19 on July 11th and he died on July 14th.
She was so afraid he would die on her birthday.
Our prayers were answered. Carl spent two tours
in Vietnam. He deployed with the 1st Cav when
they were sent to Vietnam. He only spent one year
in the states before he returned on his second
tour. On his last tour in Vietnam he was checked
out in the turbo jet. We retired from Sort Sill,
Oklahoma and moved to Westminster, CA and was
there until his death. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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