Harold Paul Romine

Harold Paul Romine, 80 of Dallas, Texas, died on Saturday November 27, 2010 in his home. He was born July 11, 1930 in Mammoth Spring, Fulton County, Ark., a son of the late Samuel Lemuel and Pearl Dunkerson Romine. As an infant, his family moved to Oklahoma where he was raised. Mr. Romine was an Eagle Scout, graduated from Sperry High School in Oklahoma and Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa, Okla. He served in the U. S. Army during the Korean Conflict in the First Observation Battalion on Pork Chop Hill as a radio operator. His love of flying began early, buying his first airplane at the age of 17. In 1955 he began a 38 year career with American Airlines where he was a cockpit crew member, a flight engineer and instructor/check airman. Mr. Romine was based in Chicago, Ill. for seven years and transferred to Dallas, Tex. in 1966. Mr. Romine was a member of Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church of Dallas, the Golden Wings Association, the Three Diamond Society and the Moose Lodge. On December 30, 1956, he married Shirley Carla Christopher from Greene County, Pa., who survives. Employed with the airlines, the couple traveled extensively, touring the planet for many years. The last of his family of eight, he was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, Ralph Romine, Roy Romine and Lee Romine and four sisters, Ethel Sayre, Nola DeMartino, Opal Tharp and Mildred Willis. Genealogy records show that Mr. Romine shared grandparents with Abraham Lincoln, William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison. In 1991, Harold and Shirley bought the farm adjacent to her father's farm on State Route 21 in Greene County, Pa. He remodeled the century old two story house, doubling its size, doing much of the labor himself. It was a retirement project in which he took much pride. Family and friends are welcome from 10:00 A. M. until 11:00 A. M., the hour of service on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 in the Yoskovich Funeral Home, Carmichaels, Pa. The Rev Harold O. Kelley will officiate. Interment will follow with a graveside committal at 2:30 P. M. on Wednesday at Fairview Cemetery, Pisgah, W. Va. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the memorial fund of the Greene Valley Presbyterian Church, P. O. Box 363, Carmichaels, PA 15230. Cumberland American Legion Post 400 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3491 will accord military honors at the graveside.