Bryan was the father of my best friend, Bill Arnold, and Victoria Arnold, who I thank for the gift of sobriety she gave me when she bid me to tell the truth.
“The truth will set you free!”
After Bill’s funeral, Bryan asked me to be his son. On this day I accept the honor, and stand with Bryan before the Stuttmeister-Janke crypt in Colma, and, the Chrlstus statue placed on the Stuttmeister tomb in Berlin. If only…….we knew! Rosemary told her four children the Stuttmeisters were Teutonic Knights. Some title these knights
“Warriors of God”
I did not serve my country. I was classified 4F. I have watched twenty hours of World War footage, and marvel that the Berlin monument was not destroyed. I believe I spotted a bullet hole. Nearby, Hitler and Eva, swallowed, poison. So much damage that one soldier is responsible for, He tried to become a world famous artist. He found hismslef when WW1 began. He served his country.
I awoke wearily and assessed the damge done in my family. I had a dream I saw my brother at a bus stop. I looked back, and saw him again. We did not get along. Mark Presco served his country.
I honor all families who are born, and born children, and expect this is the most difficult and honorable thing to do in this world. Then, these families, have to make room for the birth of another horrific war. Such a terrible and impossible infant. Such impossible problems to solve. So many gave there life…….trying!
Peace, my Father! Peace, my brother!
John Presco
5/27/2024
Bryan C. Arnold
Bryan Coffield Arnold
Posted on December 17, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
Bryan C. Arnold 1937
Cullum No. 10973 • Nov 14, 1987 • Died in Los Altos, CA
Interred in Alta Mesa Cemetery, Palo Alto, CA
Bryan Coffield Arnold, born in Gatesville, Texas, on 1 October 1913, was the son of a distinguished jurist, Jasper Henry Arnold, and his artist wife, Ray Coffield Arnold. Attending elementary and high school in Gatesville, he was introduced to the military through a year of CMTC, two years of Reserve Officer Training Corps, and a year in the Texas National Guard. This, together with his high school football and drama experience, surely helped persuade Congressman O.H. Cross of the Eleventh Congressional District (Texas) to select and appoint Bryan to the United States Military Academy at West Point, to which Bryan matriculated in 1933.
Early in his plebe year it became apparent that Bryan marched to a different drummer, determinedly so. His deep and abiding belief, which he was to sustain all his life, in the brotherhood of all mankind and in equal justice under all law endeared him to his friends and profoundly disturbed others, not the least of whom were his military superiors. Even so, in June 1937, having fully participated for four years in sports, choir, and Hundreth Night Shows, and having regularly been in attendance on the yard, Bryan stood proudly with his classmates to receive his commission as a second lieutenant of Infantry.
Of his years in the service, Bryan was later, in retrospect, to write, “My career was far from outstanding, but I tried to play the game honestly, and did my duty usually as I understood it, although as a human being the understanding was often fallible.”
Pearl Harbor found him commanding Headquarters Company of the 21st Infantry Regiment at Schofield Barracks, Territory of Hawaii. Soon after, Captain Arnold transferred to the Air Transport Command, where he was assigned as intelligence officer and adjutant of the 18th Transport Group in Amberly, Australia. He remained in this assignment until his return to the States in 1944 to attend the 18th General Staff Course at Fort Leavenworth.
Taking time out to marry Eugenia Smith in Cincinnati, Ohio, he returned to duty at the Army Training Center at Hamilton Field, California until the war’s end. Now, after completing a re-
fresher course at Fort Benning, Bryan returned to his first love, as Infantry battalion commander at Camp Fannin, Texas. An interesting detail as radiological safety officer for “Operation Crossroad” at Bikini Atoll preceded a short tour at Fort McClellan, Alabama. He then took his family to Fort Jackson, where he served as a battalion commander in the 10th Infantry Regiment.
In February 1946, Eugenia bore him a son who was to die tragically in 1965. In 1950, after the birth of daughter Victoria Lee, Major Arnold moved his family to France for four years while he served in various assignments, the last a two-year stint as deputy post commander at Brus-sac. Then, following a tour as Bud Underwood’s deputy at Fort Niagara, he spent sixteen months in Korea, and eighteen months at Camp Zama in Japan. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1961 and took his family to Oakland, California, to begin life as a civilian.
After five years in Oakland, during which Bryan worked in real estate, and Eugenia as a secretary at Modern Day School, they moved to southern California. Here Bryan worked for the city of Mountain View, then for the state, first for the Department of Water Resources, and later for the Highway Department. He also served as editor of the American Right of Way Association Newspaper. Eugenia began working in El Camino Hospital in 1965, where she was to remain for 21 years.
Physical difficulties forced Bryan’s retirement in 1983. About this time he moved into his daughter’s home in Los Angeles, and died in a nursing home in Sunnyvale in November 1987.
Our gentle Texan, with the voice of an angel, has gone. May God grant him rest.
Dr. Henry Summerfield Arnold (b. April 17, 1837, d. July 10, 1913)
Henry Summerfield Arnold was born April 17, 1837 in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, and died July 10, 1913 in Coryell County, Texas. He married Polly Molly Walker on November 19, 1865 in Brazos County, Texas, daughter of William Calvin Walker and Nancy Bolton.
More About Henry Summerfield Arnold and Polly Molly Walker:
Marriage: November 19, 1865, Brazos County, Texas.
Children of Henry Summerfield Arnold and Polly Molly Walker are:
- Edwin P. Arnold, b. August 15, 1866, Texas, d. September 15, 1910.
- Jasper Henry Arnold, b. 1869, Texas, d. date unknown.
- George J. Arnold, b. May 01, 1871, Texas, d. date unknown.
- Joseph Arnold, b. September 01, 1874, Texas, d. date unknown.
- Robert Marion Arnold, b. 1876, Texas, d. date unknown.
- Harry Lee Arnold, b. March 1880, Texas, d. 1934.
| Name:Bryan Coffield ArnoldBirth Date:1 Oct 1913Gender:MaleBirth Place:Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, USAFather:Jasper Henry ArnoldFather Birth Place:Brazos County, TexasMother:Ray CoffieldMother Birth Place:Hays County, TexasMother Residence:Gatesville, Texas |
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Dr Henry Summerfield Arnold VVeteran
Birth17 Apr 1837
Tennessee, USADeath10 Jul 1913 (aged 76)
Coryell County, Texas, USABurial
Copperas Cove, Coryell County, Texas, USAShow MapGPS-Latitude: 31.1264805, Longitude: -97.8965999Memorial ID58819791 · View Source
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Son of George S. Arnold and (mother unknown at this time); his step-mother was Mary K. Mangrum Arnold.
Family Members
Spouse
Children
- Edwin P. Arnold1866–1910
- Judge George S. Arnold1871–1952
- Joseph W. “Joe” Arnold1874–1901
- Robert Marion Arnold1875–1935
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1st Lieutenant, Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry
Left by Johnny Anderson on 17 Jun 2024
When Whitmel Rachel “Ray” Coffield was born on 4 September 1876, in San Marcos, Hays, Texas, United States, her father, Henry B. Coffield, was 37 and her mother, Martha Ellen Wilson, was 20. She married Jasper Henry Arnold on 1 August 1894, in Hillsboro, Hill, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Coryell, Texas, United States in 1910 and Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, United States in 1920. She died before 1927.
Brief Life History of Jasper Henry
When Jasper Henry Arnold was born on 9 May 1869, in Brazos, Texas, United States, his father, Dr. Henry Summerfield Arnold, was 32 and his mother, Mary Walker, was 23. He married Whitmel Rachel “Ray” Coffield on 1 August 1894, in Hillsboro, Hill, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Justice Precinct 6, Lampasas, Texas, United States in 1880 and Coryell, Texas, United States in 1910. He died on 18 January 1927, in Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Texas, United States.
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