He is the son of Felipe and Maria Garcia. His father a mine worker and his mother a housewife.
Alfredo is the second oldest and has two sisters and five brothers.
At the age of 20 he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1953. Alfredo served in the Korean War
for 17 months and adapted easily into the military lifestyle regiment. Alfredo had many first
during this time which including traveling by planes and trains as well to a foreign countries and
seeing snow for the first time. Another first would be handling the M18 57mm recoil rifle while
fighting on front lines.
After the Korea war ended Alfredo spent the last part of his service in Japan. He returned to the
U.S by ship to Seattle Washington in 1955. 30 days after being back to the U.S. he married
Nellie Acevedo on June 25th, 1955 in Reno, NV. Together they had three daughters. Tina, Vera
and Victoria and would later have three grandchildren and a great-grandson.
Alfred worked for and retired from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory after 24 years. After
retirement he would dedicate lots of his time to working within the Brentwood community as
well as becoming a member of the VFW and American Legions with Post 202 District 9. Alfred
would serve as Post Commander of Post 202 for a year.
Alfred was a dedicated, loving and selfless husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather
who put everyone, especially his family and friends first.
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