He was educated in the Trousdale County school system in Hartsville, Tennessee.
Having professed hope in Christ at an early age, Albert was baptized in the Jehovah Church of God. In his early years he served as Youth Sunday school teacher which began an exemplary life of leadership for Albert.
On July 26, 1960, Albert began a grand and decorated military career. He was a voluntary draft serviceman in the United States Army during the Berlin Crisis. He started off studying communications and then went in Airborne training. He was in the Infantry branch and then re-enlisted for Artillery. His first of 3 tours of the Vietnam War was in August of 1968. After the Vietnam War he stayed in the military and worked in Germany doing special assignments, which is how he became fluent in the German language. He left Germany in 1979 and retired from the US Army in February of 1982 as a Master Sergeant E8. He was very proud of being ex-military and loved his time of being Airborne and was proud to say he had 1500 jumps. If you were priviliged enough to have sat down and talked with him, you would have heard a military story, a story about helping his father on the farm and he might have thrown in a couple of words of German just to mess with you.
During a leave to visit family in Michigan in 1969, Albert met the love of his life, Mary Stella Ciaramitaro. From that time the two were inseparable and married December 3, 1971 in Pontiac, MI. They moved to Georgia before they ended up moving to Germany. Before long this pair welcomed Daddy’s girl, Julie Ann Sullivan, to their union on September 22, 1975 in Frankfurt Germany. Albert and Mary remained deeply in love and at each other’s side for nearly 50 years.
After countless military honors and 22 years of service, Albert retired from the US Army and he joined Mary and Julie in Detroit, MI.
In 1986 he found a new career as a member and lead of the Security Team at Detroit Receiving Hospital where he worked for 30 years and was called upon to be a German translator before he retired in 2016. He was well respected and dearly loved by his fellow officers and hospital staff.
He spent his retirement years doing what he loved most…spending time on his boat and with his grandchildren Kiara Gilmore and Christopher Gilmore Jr.
Albert leaves to cherish his memory eight siblings: May Kinnard of Clarkston MI, Frankie Moore of Gallatin TN, William (Sheila) Sullivan of Oxford MI, Thurman (Rosemarie) Sullivan of Henderson NV, Patricia (James) Reeves of Lebanon TN, Lula (Claude) McCathern of Lebanon TN, James (Gale) Sullivan of St Louis MO, Sandra Winfree of Murfreesboro TN.. He also leaves to cherish his memory a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
His passions were traveling with his wife, taking care of his birds and fish tank and fishing on his boat! He celebrated all that life had to offer. He was a man of principle and integrity and a role model for all who knew him!
Visitation Monday form 2-8 PM at A.H. Peters Funeral Home, 20705 Mack, Grosse Pointe Woods. Funeral Service Tuesday 10:00 AM at the funeral home. Interment White Chapel Cemetery, Troy, Michigan.
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