ED ALLMOND 1951 - 1979 AIRCRAFT MECHANIC, SENIOR MECHANIC FTW ACF GSW DAL DFW I was very impressed with your Frontier obituary site. My father, E. F. Allmond, started with Central in the early fifties and retired from Frontier in the (seventies) with twenty five years of loyal service in maintenance. He died December 8, 1997. Frontier was a major love of his life, and I would be very pleased to have his obituary mentioned on your website. -Perry Allmond (9/7/99) My name is Perry Allmond, son of Edgar Franks Allmond, an old Central Airlines employee who died December 8, 1997 in Fort Worth, Texas. Below is a copy of an article appearing in the Fort Worth Star Telegram September 4, 1999, telling about the "amazing return" of Keith Kahle's ring. Great story, but it's completely wrong. The ring they are referring to is my ring. My father, E. F. Allmond, worked for Central Airlines and Frontier Airlines for nearly 30 years. In 1992, I took his Central 15 year service pin and had it made into a ring in his honor. It contained a ruby and small white diamond, and was made at Haltom's Jeweler's in Fort Worth. I am convinced there is no other ring like it in the world, and it of course has tremendous sentimental value. This is NOT Mr. Kahle's ring, but my father's, and I am very interested in getting the truth revealed. I am a regular customer in the Pub mentioned and a personal friend of the owner who found the ring. He is convinced the ring is mine. Who else would be there with a Central Airlines ring? I can describe the ring in detail, as it is quite unusual. I don't mind the ring being in a museum, but I would require my father's name to be on it, not Mr. Kahle's. The writer of the article, however, is skeptical. I am currently getting verification of my ownership of the ring and I will not rest until it is returned to its rightful owner. I also have my father's Central Employee card and a variety of other memorabilia, if you are interested. (Several old Central employees saw the ring when I had it and would gladly attest to ownership). -Perry Allmond (9/7/99Z) Bud Kennedy article: Lost ring's return `amazing;' After 22 years, airline founder's gem turns up in pub Lost for at least 22 years, a Fort Worth airline executive's gold ring is now found -- and has a new home. The missing 10-karat engraved ring turned up mysteriously, jewels sparkling, from the carpet one night after the wee-hours crowd poured out of a downtown Irish pub. This week, two years after the death of 1950s Texas airline pioneer Keith Kahle, his Central Airlines gold insignia ring made one final hop -- from the rug of the Blarney Stone Pub to the display case at an Oklahoma City history museum. "This is amazing," said his widow, Jean Kahle, when she finally saw the ring, rescued from a vacuum's path by tavern keeper Matt McEntire this year. "This is simply ... amazing." The couple married in 1977, a decade after Keith Kahle's old Fort Worth-based regional airline had merged to form Frontier Airlines. When the Kahles set up quarters in their new home, his Central Airlines ring was missing. "He kept looking through everything," Jean Kahle said, wiggling her fingers as if rummaging through a cluttered drawer. "He said, `I still can't find that ring.' " The ring was -- well, she had no idea where the ring was. But someone had dropped a Central ring at the Blarney Stone. McEntire called here for help, saying he asked around the bar "and nobody had ever heard of that airline. ... Maybe there's a sentimental story." There was. I phoned Jean Kahle first. She mentioned her husband's lost ring and named several retired Central pilots and employees who might also have lost a memento. Not one could remember seeing anyone with a jeweled Central ring. She eventually suggested giving the ring McEntire found to a Central Airlines history exhibit at the Kirkpatrick Science and Air Space Museum, in the city where Keith Kahle covered aviation as a reporter for `The Daily Oklahoman' and where he originally founded Central in 1949. If you knew anything about him, you knew that Keith Kahle was an intense Oklahoma Sooners fan. He grew up in Norman, Okla., watching Sooners football practice in the 1920s. For 25 years after moving here, he officially welcomed the Sooners to Texas for the annual Texas-Oklahoma game, where one year he also met a woman named Jean. So Keith Kahle wore a lot of red and white. When she met him, Jean Kahle remembered with a laugh, "I thought -- this is the tackiest man I eversaw. He had on red and white. I thought, `red' pants? With a `red' shirt?" She and I struck out together Thursday morning on a drive to deliver the ring to Oklahoma City. Somewhere halfway between Ardmore and Pauls Valley, right after we passed by Turner Falls and the Arbuckle Mountains, I took another look at the ring. The emblem is the airline's intricate scroll logo, probably from the 1950s. Beneath are two prominent jewels: a ruby and a diamond. Red and white. Jean Kahle bowed her head for a moment. We both sat speechless for what seemed like minutes, with no sound but the thump-thump of tires over the seams in the Oklahoma highway. She looked ahead: "How far to Oklahoma City?" At the museum, a director gingerly lifted the ring to a shelf front-and-center in display case No. 12, filled with photos of Keith Kahle and mementos of Central, still sentimentally remembered as many Oklahoma cities' first-- or only -- airline. I had put the ring in the old box from my `Star-Telegram 10- year service pin. Now, that box is also in the museum. "It's just such a series of coincidences," Jean Kahle said on the return trip. "How did it get to the Blarney Stone? That's the puzzle to me. Did Keith really misplace it years ago? Or did somebody steal it? "And where did it come from? Did he design it for himself? Or did someone have it made for him? "And he's not here to tell us." We don't know where Keith Kahle's ring has been. We only know that it's home in Oklahoma. Bud Kennedy's column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. in the Ft Worth Star-Telegram Dad's full name was Edgar Franks Allmond, he always went by Ed. He was born in 1914 and passed away 12/8/97. He died in a nursing home of complications from pneumonia. He was 83 years old. Dad went to work as an electrician at Central in 1951 in Fort Worth Texas, at Greater Southwest International Airport, known as GSW. He was always proud of the fact that he did the complete rewiring of 23 DC 3's at the hanger there back in the mid fifties. He went to Frontier after the merger and was a technician stationed at Love Field and DFW Airport until he retired in 1979 with 28 years of service. He had a lot of stories about Central, including one about having a goose crash through the window of a DC3 while he was riding the jump seat. Some of his friends are still around who worked with him, such as Russ O'Hara and Brady White, both ex-Central people. As for the ring situation, it's causing me quite a lot of grief. The Central 15 year pins were unique, the logo is one I haven't seen anywhere else. I was amused at the discussion in the article about the two gems. They are a small ruby and a diamond, and the ring was made here in Fort Worth at Haltom's Jewelers. We had the pin removed from the back and had it affixed to a gold ring I already had, hence the unique nature of the ring. Did you ever have a picture of it? It would help me prove it's mine. Fortunately, I always carry his old Central employee ID card in my pocket, along with his pass and his taxi and runup cards for the 737, 727 and the 580. I have some old pictures from Central days, and a lot of memorabilia of different types, including some Frontier silverware. I'll look more carefully and see what else I can come up with. I have some maintenance manuals for the Convairs, etc. I hope this helps. If you have any information on the service pins, I would like to hear. I found no logos on the collectors site that are anything like it. -Perry Almond (9/6/99) RETIREMENTS Edgar F. Allmond - Aircraft mechanic, DFW, 12 years (Years listed for Allmond are in error - should be 28 years.) Donald Hotchkiss - Aircraft mechanic, DEN, 22 years Larry Keen - Lead aircraft mechanic (avionics), DEN, 23 years Per Mar/Apr 1979 FL News -Jake Lamkins (4/1/11) E F ALLMOND Aircraft mechanic seniority date of 9/24/51, per the 11/1/76 FL/IAM Seniority List. He got his 15 year pin in May 1966 so he started in a non-mechanic position. -Jake Lamkins (4/4/12) OBITUARY Edgar F "Ed" Allmond Memorial Photos Flowers Edit Share Learn about upgrading this memorial... Birth: Oct. 14, 1914 Colorado City Mitchell County Texas, USA Death: Dec. 8, 1997 Fort Worth Tarrant County Texas, USA FORT WORTH - Edgar F. "Ed" Allmond, 83, a retired technician for Frontier Airline, died Monday, Dec. 8, 1997, at a local nursing home. Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday at Brown, Owens and Brumley Funeral Home. Burial: Laurel Land Memorial Park. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Edgar F. "Ed" Allmond was born Oct. 25, 1914, in Colorado City, Mitchell County, Texas. Survivors: Wife of 63 years, Mary Allmond of Fort Worth; and son, Perry L. Allmond of Fort Worth. Brown, Owens & Brumley 425 S. Henderson St., 335-4557 ******************************************* Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) - December 10, 1997 Family links: Parents: Lonzo Edgar Allmond (1884 - 1962) Cora Leona Franks Allmond (1885 - 1962) Spouse: Mary Snow Allmond (1917 - 2005) Burial: Laurel Land Memorial Park Fort Worth Tarrant County Texas, USA Created by: Kathy Leach Record added: Jan 31, 2011 -Find A Grave Memorial# 64967187 (4/6/12) Posted at FLacebook and the FL Club: DAL DFW aircraft mechanic Ed Allmond's memorial webpage has been upgrade. http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Ed_Allmond.html Several new items added. Post your remembrances of Ed. -Jake Lamkins (4/8/12)