July 9, 1940 — June 13, 2024
Alvin George Faichtinger (83) of Altair, Texas, passed away on June 13, 2024 at his home in San Antonio, Texas.
Alvin was born July 9, 1940 to Emil and Sophia Faichtinger of Pettibone, Texas. He attended Buckholts High School and worked at Safeway and the cotton gin with his dad in Cameron, Texas. Alvin was introduced to Mary Catherine Viaclovsky by a mutual friend at a dance and fell madly in love. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1962 as an airman. He taught personnel to drive tanker trucks and fueled aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbor. He proposed to Mary by mail while deployed in Hawaii. On September 15, 1963, they were married in Wallis, Texas and she followed him to his Naval assignment at NAS Barber’s Point on the island of Oahu. This was the beginning of their beautiful love story, where their first son, Michael, was
