Seferino Albarez Jr.
Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment
4th Infantry Division
Age: 21
Date of Birth: 2/24/1947
From: Lockhart, Texas
Marital Status: Single
Private First Class, E-3, Selective Service
Military Occupation Specialty: 11B – Infantryman
Enlistment Date – 12/13/1967
Length of Service – Less than one year (183 days)
His tour began on May 25, 1967
Casualty was on June 13, 1968 (19 days in Vietnam)
Casualty Code – A1-Z-7
Ground Casualty
Hostile – Died outright, no cause reported
Place of casualty – Kontum Province, Dak To District
Approximately five kilometers southwest of Ben Het.
Seferino Albarez was serving in Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment when he died on June 13th, 1968. Alpha Company was on a reconnaissance in force patrol and had departed Firebase 29 early in the morning on the 13th. As the company was moving up the southern slope of Hill 990, Seferino collapsed and died before he could be evacuated for medical treatment. Cause of death was unknown, but severe heat stroke was suspected. He died 19 days after arriving in Vietnam.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall
Panel 57W Line 7
PFC Seferino Albarez’s decorations.
Top row – left to right (Individual Awards) – Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Bottom row (Unit Awards) – Presidential Unit Citation, Republic of Vietnam RVN Gallantry Cross Unit Citation
Biography
Seferino Albarez Jr. was born on February 24th, 1967 in Lockhart, Texas. He was the oldest of five children (Seferino Jr., Margarita, Mary Alice, Simon & Carlos) born to Seferino Sr and Petra (Elias) Alvarez. He lived his entire life in Lockhart, graduating from Lockhart High School in 1967. He was the Senior Manager and a Senior Band Leader in the Lockhart Lions Marching Band, in which he played the trombone.
Services
PFC Albarez’s remains were escorted to his hometown of Lockhart, Texas by Staff Sergeant Benny Garcia. The funeral and burial with full military honors at St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery took place at 1145 hours on June 25, 1968.
Additional information and links
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Wall of Faces – https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/476/SEFERINO-ALBAREZ-JR/
