Since 1930, the Texas Fire Training School has provided educational opportunities for firefighters and first responders worldwide.

The Guest Instructors’ Memorial stands as a tribute to those volunteer instructors who have given to others the knowledge and skills they themselves spent a lifetime learning.

Each year, during the summer annual fire training schools, memorial services are held to honor those on the wall as well as guest instructors whose names will be added for the year.

A monetary donation can be made in memory of a guest instructor or any individual in lieu of flowers. Please indicate the name of the honoree and the family’s address. You will receive a “thank you” card and the individual’s family will be notified of your generous act.

Mail Your Donation To:

Guest Instructors’ Memorial
Emergency Services Training Institute 
PO Box 40006
College Station, TX 77842-4006

Make Checks Payable to: Brayton Fire Instructor Memorial Donation Fund

For Credit Card Donations, Call: (866) 878-8900

Guest Instructors' Memorial

Their dedication and sacrifices will never be forgotten.

Current Honorees

Grover C. Adams
R.E. Akin
Alvin Hubert Albrecht
C.M. Alford
Adren L. Allen
Curtis Anderson
Paul L. Andrews
Augustin Armenta
John Bailey
L.V. Bailey
Ed Baker
Leo Bales
John Ballew
Ron Barker
Don R. Barnes
R.L. Barnett
Bill R. Barrett
Pat Barrett
Herby Bart
E.G. Bashforth
John W. Baumgardner
Kevin Bayens
Merwin Beamsley
H.D. Bearden
Henry Beare
W.A. Bearor
J. B. Beckham
Michael (Mickey) Belew
Gene Bell
John Bement
Victor Manual Benavente
Fred J. Benson
Hart Berwick
Leroy Biels
A.C. Black
Telsa “Bud” Nicola Blackwell
Len A. Blackwood
D. J. Blanchard
James Bland, Jr.
James Bland, Sr.
Tommy Bledsoe
F.C. Bolton
Lawrence (Larry) Bonner
J.H. Boone
Travis D. Boston, Jr.
Howard Bourque
J.W. Boyd
R.A. “Blackie” Bradford
D.L. Brandon
Joe Brantley
H.R. Brayton
Algie Breaux
R.H. Brewer
John T. “J.T.” Brown
H.F. Browne
John Burleson
W.G. Burns
John L. Busby
Dan M. Butler
L.O. Bynum
A.G. Campa
Elvin Campbell
Bill Cantwell
Rey Carrera
Onie Carroll
A.L. “Gus” Cartwright
Joe H. Causey
M. Robert Chafin
Elias Chahin S.
Fred Lee Chambers
Odis Chappell
Jose Manuel Chavez
W. J. Childers
C.P. Churchwell
David Clabaugh
Joe W. Clark
Joe Clement
F.H. Colbert
Robert “Bob” Collins
Paul B. Conley
B.E. Cook
D.M. “Pat” Cook
Anthony Cormier, Jr.
John Cormier
Leroy Cormier
David A. Cox
Jerry Craft
C.A. Criswell
H.V. Crocker
H.G. “Blackie” Crofoot
Olin Culberson
Jose Curioca
Paul Dacke
Jack Daines
M.D. Darrow
Clyde W. Davis
H.A. Davis
Richard N. Davis
W. J. “Jim” Davis
D.D. Day
John Dean
Guadalupe Delgado Saenz
H.L. Dent, Jr.
E.H. Derr
J. W. Dickerson
Hurshall Dickinson
G.F. Dohrn
J.J. “Jack” Dorgan
W.B. “Cotton” Dorman
F.J. Douglas
Raye Downs, Jr.
Walter Drinkard, Jr. 
J.J. Driscoll
W.A. Drohan
Paul E. Duckworth
Charles E. Duffin
Jimmy Dugger
Dennis Dunham
James L. Duncan
George L. Duplant

John Eason
Johnny Economedes
Donald Eernisse
Wesley Eernisse
Ernest Emerson
Harold England, Jr.
Jimmy Epperson
Alfonso Esquer S.
Jody Evans
J.C. Farmer
Theo H. Felds
Rodney Fender
R.P. (Pete) Ferguson
Roger Fields
A.J. Fogaley
Walter “Lee” Fort
Bobo T. Foster
Ray Foster
George Fox
Elmer Frede
James Fritts
Garland W. Fullbright
Frank Gallaway, Jr.
Frank Gallaway, Sr.
William Gallaway
Mario Gallegos, Sr.
Ray Garcia
Rosendo Garcia
Jerry D. “J.D.” Gardner
Jimmy Garland
Jimmy Garner
Piedro Garza
Angel Garza Sanchez
Charlie Gee
Jack W. Gentry
Ray Gibbons
Lynn Gilbert
Ray Gish
B.D. Goen
Mel Goodwin
Hubert Gorubec
J.C. Greener
Elsworth “Papa” Greer
A.F. Grief
Ed B. Gross
Wayne Greer
Charles S. Gregg
Bill Gregory
Albert Grohman
Bruce W. Guard
O.F. Guffey
John E. Hafernik
Claude Hale 
J.C. Hall Jr.
T.H. Haltom
L.R. Hans, Jr.
Guy Harbert
M. H. “Cotton” Harrell 
L.P. Harrington
J.T. Harrison
L.V. Hatfield
Lannie E. Hatton
W. “Corky” H. Havins
W.G. Heath
W.L. “Bill” Heaton
Harry A. Hebert, Jr.
C.C. Hedges
W.J. Henderson
Sidney Henke
Herman Henze
Dwayne Hickman
Dayne Hill
L. E. Hoffer
Rexford Hoffpauir
Royce Hogg
Lew F. Holland
Hal H. Hood
W.G. Horn
Morris C. Horton
Clay House
Herman Howerts
Jerry Dean Huffman
George M. Hughes
Bart Humphreys
J. T. Humphreys
B.S. Huron
Harold Huron
Glenn O. Hutchens
Paul Israel
Danny Ivy
David W. Jackson
Mark Jackson
V. O. Jahnke
Earl Craig Johnson
William R. “Bob” Johnson
L.K. Jonas
John B. Judice
Hugh Keepers
Hugh V. Keepers
Dee Keilers
A.L. Kelley
James Kennemer
Jack Kimbriel
Ronald W. Kimbrough
Jack King
P.H. King
G.M. Kintz
Ed S. Kirkham
W. A. “Bill” Koen
Michael R. Kraus
Dan E. Lake
Salvador Lambreton Narro
Ray Landry
Keith Langford
Mason Lankford
Robert Lannou
Jose Luis Lara-Martinez L.
Tommy Latham
W.H. Lauderback

Guy E. Lawless
Robert E. Lee
Earl “A.J.” Lehman
Ron Lehman
N.G. Leonard
Fred Lerma
James E. Lewis
Raymond D. Lewis
Paul F. Lindeman
Haskin V. Little
J. Melvin Little
Vicki Lockett
Billy C. Long, Sr.
Charles Lorance
Jesse Lozano
Stuart M. Luce
J.A. Luckey
Hulon C. “Foots” Lummus
W.H. “Lefty” Lumpkin
Craig Lunn
R. D. Mace
Donald H. Maddock
Billy Marquis
James Martin
O.C. Martin
Leon Martin, Sr.
Isidore O. Martinez
Elmer Mathews
Gene Matthews
Larry May
Lee Mayfield
Oland E. Mays
G.G. “Bud” McDowell
Bill McFadin
B. Frank McKinney
B.W. McMeen
Charles Meadows
Essa Means
R.E. Merchant
Bill Methner
Jack C. Methner
John L. Miller, Jr.
L.C. “Bud” Miller
Lincoln D. “Doug” Miller
Tim Miskimen
James “Pistol” D. Mitchell
Michael Moninger
Pablo Montiel Flores
Tom Morgan
James “Doug” Morris
Jim Morris
Nelson Mueller
R. Otis Muenster
R. E. “Bob” Murphy
Virgil W. Murry
D.C. Musick
Roger Mycue
Alfred S. Myers
James Naylor
Clayton Neal
W.A. Neel
J.W. Nelson
Willie R. Noel, Jr.
Ben Norman
Joe L. Norwood
Richard J. Nunn
J.M. O’Brien
Robert O’Burke
John O’Gorman
Louis Olenick
Bernard C. Olive, Jr.
Kenneth Orrell, Sr.
Edgardo Ortiz
Charles Page
T.H. Page
E. W. Parker
J.O. Parker
Ernest Patschke
E.W. “Pat” Patterson
William J. Payne
Harvey Payton
C.N. Penn
Steve Perdue
James V. Perez
Mike B. Perez, Jr.
Jerry Perkins
Harry Perry
Vergel Perry
Louis Pettigrew
Earl PhillipsOtis Phillips, Jr.
Donnie Pickard
Richard Pierce
James Pogue
Charles Polk Player
Johnnie Pokluda
Wallace E. Pope
Murrell Porter
Harold Potts
Grover I. Powell
Leon R. Powell
W.R. “Ralph” Powell
Steele Powers
Thomas Powers
Leland Priest
Gene Puckett
Samuel L. Purtle
Odean Puryear
J.R. Quattlebaum
William “Bill” Radle, Jr.
Eduardo Ramirez 
A.L. Rathke
John R. Rauch
Vernon Ray
Orville Reames
Susan Parks Reese
Tonie Louis Reynaga
Claude V. Reynolds, Jr.
Joe Rice
Bob Richardson
Bryan A. Rickert
Victor Foster Rivera
Tom W. Robinson
Jesus F. Zagal Rodriguez
Leonardo Rodriguez

J.O. Rollins
Pablo Emit Romero Sanchez
Vernon “Blondy” Rucker
Freeman Rue
Richard Russell
A.H. Ryle
Elbert E. Sanders
Fallehey Sandlin
James L. Sanders
Vertis Sands
Hernan G. Santamaria
Austin Sattler
R. D. Savage
Melvin Schmidt
Raymond Schulz
Steve Schultz
J.H. Schwab
Charlie Scott
Tom Sellers
Marvin Setzer
E.F. “Woody” Sevison
F. E. Shaheen III
W. R. Shannon
W.H. Sharp
L. Roy Shanks
Earl Sherley
Jack Shipley
Ralph Shirley
Maurice M. Simer
R. Roy Simmons
J.F. Simms, Jr.
Fordyce Sims
Cecil B. Sistrunk
H.C. Skaggs
W.L. “Levi” Smallwood
Brenda Smith
Clyde W. Smith
Ernest Smith
Glenn W. Smith
Henry D. Smith
Ziess Smith
R.R. Sneed
Austin Snodgrass
Adolph Solmky
Irwin Speckles
Hershell Stafford
Henry L. Stanfield
Richard Stannard
John Stasney
R.E. Stegman
David Stevenson
Charles J. Stewart
George Stewart
R.W. Stewart
Dennis St. John
George W. Stock
Robert Stubblefield
Jorge Suarez Perdo R.
E.C. Summer
J.C. Swadley
Tom R. Talasek
William “Bill” Tarver
E.L. “Tinker” Taylor
Jack Taylor
Donnie Teague
Norvall E. Terry
D.A. Teutsch
Don W. Theus
Robin Thigpen
Max Thomas
Leo Thompson
Gary Tilton
Henry Timmerman
R.L. Trafton
Jim Treybig
Dale G. Trousdale
W.E. Twitty
Bryan Tye
J.M. “Rip” Van Winkle
John Vermillion
Joe D. Villarreal
Rosemberg Jose Villegas Aranguren
Eduardo Villegas Vieyra
W. B. “Ben” Vollbaum
E.G. “Eddie Gene? Walker
Wesley W. Wallace
Jackie Walton
T.O. Walton, Ph.D.
Billy Jack Ward
G.B. Warnstaff
Gary Warren
Tom Watson
Jerald “Jerry” Weaver
Wallace A. Weinger
Palmer West
James Wiggs
Ernest Wilkes
Frank Williams
Jerry Williams
Leslie P. Williams
Lewis Williams
Paul R. Williams
William R. Willis
G.W. “Buck” Wilson, Jr.
Kirby Wilson, Sr.
George D. Winburn
Herbert H. Winchester
Paul Witt
Sawyer T. Wolston
Harold Wood
James “Michael” Wood
Kenneth Woodall
Keith “Woody” Woodard
James Woods
Woody Woodson
Robert E. Wright
Charles H. Yeager
Lewis York
Carlos Humberto Zaballa
Elmer Zipp
William Zolczer
Robert Zoller
W.E. Zorn
Michael R. Zylks

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