James O. Sanders

1914 -

• Gender	Male
  Death Notice	James Otho Sanders Age 90, of Kailua, passed away on June 18th at the Hale Ho Aloha Nursing home in Honolulu. He was retired from the Federal Aviation Administration after 40 years of government service. Mr. Sanders was preceded in death by his wife, Blanche Gilland Sanders, and is survived by two sons, James Henderson Sanders of Scottsdale, Arizona and Thomas Michael sanders of Kailua; four grandchildren; and nine great grandchildren. He will be buried with his wife in Monteagle, Tennessee, where they were married in 1938. Mr. Sanders was born in Tennessee in 1914. He served in the United States army as a Radio Operator from 1930 to 1937, and in 1938 he was appointed to the Department of Commerce Bureau of Air Commerce, later renamed the Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA), as an Airways Keeper serving at facilities in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas. He later became an Air Traffic controller for the CAA in San Antonio, Texas from 1941 to 1947. From 1948 to 1950, Mr. Sanders and his family lived in post WWII Manila, Philippine Islands, where he served as Chief of the newly commissioned Manila AirTraffic Control Center and supervised the training of Filipino personnel to take over its operation. Mr. Sanders served as Chief of the Midway Island Air TrafficControl Center and Control Tower from 1950 to 1951 and was subsequently assigned to the CAA Regional Office in Hawaii as an Air Traffic Control Supervisor. His family who had returned to Texas after living in Manila, joined him in Honolulu. In 1958, the CAA was reorganized into the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), and Mr. Sanders was assigned to its Honolulu Airspace Utilization Branch. In 1960, he was promoted to Branch Chief, a position he held until his retirement. Highlights of his career include temporary tours of duty for the State Department in Japan in 1956 for three months where he headed the development of the Japan Civil Aviation Assistance Group, and in Korea for one year in 1956- 57 as a technical advisor for the United Nations Economic Coordinator and the the Republic of Korea's Minister of Transportation. In 1965, he represented the United States aviation interests at the meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. Mr. Sanders was a licensed pilot and a charter member of the Society of Airway Pioneers. Mr. Sanders earned a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the University of Hawaii. After his retirement, he earned a real estate broker license and was active in real estate investment in Hawaii. He was a longtime member of the Elks (BPOE) and was a member of the Waikikilodge. Most of his spare time was spent researching and documenting his Native-american Cherokee Indian ancestry, for which he received correspondence from others worldwide seeking information on their own ancestral history. [Adv June 24, 2005]
  Residence(s)	Florida (when married to Blanche) Washingon (when married to UNNAMED)
  Birth	1914
  Person ID	I2443	Lisa's Genealogy
  Last Modified	31 May 2017

  
  

  Father	Henry Grady Stokes           b. 1 December 1892, Decatur, Tennessee, USA           d. 29 September 1980, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Catherine Hall           b. 26 September 1891, Danville, Vermilion Co., Illinois, USA           d. 2 March 1973, Michigan, USA (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	19 January 1919	Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Family ID	F1579	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	Henry Grady Stokes           b. 1 December 1892, Decatur, Tennessee, USA           d. 29 September 1980, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Delia Pauline Gossett?
  Marriage	about 1915  [1]
  Divorce	1917	Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
  Family ID	F6479	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse 1	Blanche L. Gilland
  Marriage	4 October 1937	Grundy Co., Tennessee, USA   [4]
  Divorce	about 1977
  Family ID	F1584	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse 2	UNKNOWN
  Family ID	F7030	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S803] . [S2363] Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992. [S3186] file name is Source 3185. [S3352] .