WAR MEMORIAL PROPOSALS TO BE TAKEN FOR COURTHOUSE

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 17, 1993                   TAG: 9303170113
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI                                LENGTH: Medium
WAR MEMORIAL PROPOSALS TO BE TAKEN FOR COURTHOUSE
The Pulaski County Courthouses Committee agreed Tuesday to request proposals for construction of a war memorial in front of the brick courthouse that is being expanded.
Dallas Cox, the committee member who is gathering the names to go on the memorial, said he needs help from people with information about county residents lost in conflicts dating back to World War I.
He said the memorial would list all those known to have been killed in action, prisoners of war or missing in action.
Although work on the brick courthouse is not likely to be completed this year, the war memorial could be in place by July 4. Cox said that would depend on support from the public.
He said financial contributions for the memorial could be sent to the county administrator's office, with checks payable to "War Memorial Fund." But it also is urgent to get all the names in time for them to go on the memorial.
"I have not been able to establish a list for World War I," said Cox, a retired Army colonel. "I will need everyone who knows of a veteran killed, captured or missing in World War I to give me a call at 674-6915."
Cox has a list of 83 county residents, so far, known to have been killed in World War II, and 16 from the Korean war.
He has five names of World War II prisoners of war: Rudolph C. Elkins, Andrew G. Graham, George L. Rash, and just last names for Shelton and Turpin.
He needs more information to fill in those gaps, and also the names of any county service people missing in action in World War II, as well as those missing in action in Korea or Vietnam.
The names of county Vietnam veterans are pretty well established, he said. Those killed already are listed on a memorial in Radford. Nobody from Pulaski County is known to be missing in action in Vietnam, he said, and Julius W. Long Jr. was the only prisoner of war in Vietnam from the county.
"The public could provide a great service if they would help make these lists as complete as possible," Cox said. "Furthermore, if anyone feels so inclined to help defray the cost of providing this memorial in the memory of those who gave their all, the fund could sure use your support."
In addition to names, Cox needs information on the branches of service and ranks of those to be listed on the memorial.
Following are names Cox already has as having died in action during World War II:
Kelly R. Adams Jr., Boyd A. Akers, Dillard Cundiff Akers, Elwood Leslie Akers, Joseph Theron Allen, Richard P. Anderson, Arnold O. Andrews, Sidney Pendleton Baker, Lewis Kenneth Bausell (Medal of Honor winner), James R. Bentley, Henry S. Brenzo, Thomas E. Burton, Elmer Harrison Cable, Paris E. Colley.
John T. Davidson, Wayne H. East, Glen B. Fanning, James Walter Fanning, Charles E. Farris, Erman P. Ferrell, Walter E. Finn, Ernest P. Gravely, Carl T. Gray, Harry M. Grubb, John L. Grubb, Claude Jackson Haislip Jr., Norbert B. Hamilton, Ralph L. Haney Jr., Marvin L. Harding, Churchwell Hardy, Roy C. Hawkins, Joseph N. Hoback, Claude N. Horne, Robert F. Horton, Roy S. Horton, Andrew L. Howell.
George E. Jackson, Edmund W. Jackson, Roy E. Johnston, Frank Herbert Jordan Jr., Robert Williams Kress, Price H. Lambert, William L. Lambert, Daniel H. Ledford, Cicero J. McNeeley, Ernest Kyle Moore, James R. Moorehead, James Renfree Morrell, Douglas R. Moyers, William E. Nestor, Henry C. Patterson, Hayward R. Pike.
Henry Carman Quesenberry, W.H. Quesenberry, William O. Reynold, James Ritter, William T. Runyon, Roy E. Semones, Simon B. Shelburne, James A. Shouse, George P. Smith, Theodore F. Smith, Titus Smith, Billy South, Peter W. Spangler Jr., James D. Sturdivant, Robert C. Surratt.
Alfred J. Tabor, Harry Clifford Thomas, Howard Thompson, Robert W. Thompson Jr., Emory G. Thornton, David L. Tilson, Bernard Trail, Otha H. Tuck, Thomas Viers, William Edward Waddell, Richard F. Ward, William Paul Waugh, Bennie O. Webb, Chester A. Whitlock, William Whitaker and N.E. Wilkerson Jr.
Listed so far as killed in Korea are Curtis L. Bowman, Gregory E. Buford, Andrew E. Eads, William L. Farmer, Earl R. French Jr., William L. French, Cooper K. Hall, Henry G. Harrison, Hamilton C. Henley, David F. Hunter, Jack R. King, Hiram T. Mabry, Marvin L. Mills, Russell A. Morris, Paul M. Pentacost and John A. Tate.

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