Alfred Edison Friend
b. 3 January 1913, d. 31 October 1985
- Alfred Edison Friend was born on 3 January 1913 in Louisiana.
- He married Mary Josephine Abercrombie, daughter of John Quincy Abercrombie and Lucy Hughes, on 7 November 1934 in Norphlet, Union County, Arkansas, by license issued the same day, with G. T. Cullins officiating.
- Alfred Edison Friend and Mary Josephine Abercrombie appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico, at 309 North Kentucky. in 1935 they were living in Eldorado, Arkansas.
- He was employed as a collector, according to the 1940 census.
- He enlisted as a private in the US Army on 22 May 1944, in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. at Fort Sam Houston.
- The following appeared on 19 September 1972 in the San Antonio Light: Two San Antonio men have been sentenced in unrelated cases in which robbery attempts were made at a Broadway motel and a housing unit at Victoria Courts.
John David Garza, 17, of 346 Annie, was given a six-year prison term Monday by 175th District Judge Preston H. Dial Jr., after admitting to a May 19 attempt to rob the night manager at the Park Motel, 3617 Boradway.
Shot in the leg in the attempted robbery was Alfred E. Friend, 59, the motel manager. . . . - Alfred Edison Friend died on 31 October 1985 at age 72 in Bexar County, Texas.
- His wife Mary Josephine Abercrombie became a widow at his death.
- Last Edited: 29 Apr 2013