Glade L. Felix

Died: June 11, 2007

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel

Unit: 622nd Aeromedical Staging Squadron

Branch: U.S. Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Glade L. Felix of the United States Air Force Reserve died of heart complications on June 11, 2007, at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The 52-year-old officer was a reservist with the 622nd Aeromedical Staging Squadron at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia; he was in Qatar serving with the 379th Expeditionary Medical Group, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 31-year veteran of both the active and reserve Air Force was providing rehabilitation services at a staging area for American casualties awaiting medical evacuation. He was on his second tour in 18 months and had been in Qatar less than a month at the time of his death. He received a hero’s farewell on June 21, 2007, at the Kolob Seventh Ward, Latter Day Saints Church in Springville, Utah, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery.