Memorial Services will be at Hampton Vaughan Funeral Home at 1pm on Sunday, June 10. Visitation with the family will be from 6-8 pm on Saturday, June 9 at the Funeral Home.
Services are also pending in Boise, Idaho with his family and friends.
Ronnie was born August 19, 1971 in Gainesville, Texas. The family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas in 1980. He attended Fowler Elementary, McNiel Jr High, and graduated from S.H. Rider High School in 1989. He earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Environmental Science from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls.
Ronnie inherited his grandfather’s love for flying and pursued that dream fearlessly and with vigor. As a teenager, he worked at Wichita Valley Airport to pay for flying lessons. As a pilot, some of his adventures included flying tourists around volcanos in Hawaii, weather modification (cloudseeding) in India, Africa, Canada and Boise, Idaho, as well as ferrying a single-engine Cessna from Florida to Denmark.
His ultimate dream was to be a fire pilot, and was recently contracted by Neptune Aviation as a co-pilot with their tanker fleet fighting the recent wildfire outbreaks. Ronnie has logged over 4,000 hours of flight time in his career.
In addition to his love of flying, he was an avid traveler, photographer and outdoorsman. He loved camping and hiking, and spent his summers as a boy at Philmont Scout Camp in New Mexico.
Ronnie has been an active member of the Boise, Idaho community for many years. He was a member of Hash House Harriers (a drinking club with a running problem) and volunteered at the Wildlife Firefighter Foundation. His extended family of many friends in Boise will miss him tremendously.
Ronnie is preceded in death by his father Ronnie W. Chambless, maternal grandfather William A. Hitchcock, and paternal grandmother Idell Chambless.
He is survived by his mother Paula Chambless of Wichita Falls; sister, Jennifer Chambless Conner of Ft Worth, TX.; sister, Kirsten Chambless Jenkins of Wichita Falls, maternal grandmother Genevieve Hitchcock, as well as a niece and many aunts, uncles and cousins.
Donations can be made in Ronnie’s memory to the Wildland Firefighter Foundation (www.wffoundation.org).
Please share your condolences and fond memories with the Chambless family at www.hamptonvaughancrestview.com.
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