Msg (Ret) Waymond Lee Alvis

MSG (Ret) Waymond Lee Alvis, 85, of Smiths Station, AL passed away late Sunday night, December 10, 2023, at St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, GA.
Funeral services with full Military Honors and Masonic Rites will be held at 3:00 pm EST on Saturday, December 16, 2023, at Vance Brooks Funeral Home in Phenix City. A private interment will take place on Monday at Fort Mitchell National Cemetery where he will be laid to rest with his late wife, Betty Alvis who passed away in May of 2016. The family will receive friends Saturday afternoon one hour prior to the funeral service at the funeral home in Phenix City.
Mr. Alvis was born January 16, 1938, in Kingsport, TN, son of the late Martin Milner Alvis and Shirley Ruth Steele Alvis. He was a Vietnam Veteran of the United States Army serving our country for 30 years of dedicated service. He was the recipient of numerous ribbons, awards, and medals, receiving four bronze stars. He was a Mason and a longtime member of the Fort Benning Masonic Lodge 579. Mr. Alvis was honored to serve as Captain of the AMU while on base. He had a great sense of humor, always sharing funny stories to anyone who would give him a moment. He enjoyed the outdoors, nature, hunting, and fishing and loved traveling across the country in his RV with wife Betty. He was a Christian by faith.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 56 years, Lisbeth Betty Alvis and one brother, Larry Alvis.
He is survived by two nephews, Steve Alvis and wife Frances of Kingsport, TN, and Achim Kaese of Germany; two great nephews, Casey Alvis, and Steven Alvis, and two great-great nieces, Laila and Amelia; his Masonic brothers; numerous friends and his beloved pet dogs, Cricket and Coco.