Veterans Day: Remember

While rain dampens this Veterans Day, Clayton County is remembering the sacrifices of those who served the nation.

In Morrow, the Veterans Day ceremony was moved indoors. In Forest Park, a wreath was placed in front of the war memorial at City Hall. And in Jonesboro, 132 American flags and crosses, some showing signs of wear, lined the entire block across from Historic Main Street. Each cross bears the name of someone who died in service to the country, or of a deceased veteran with ties to Jonesboro. You can find each name in the table below the photo. Those who served in two different wars are listed under each war.

WAR/SERVICE BRANCH	VETERAN
Civil War	William T. Roberts I
WWI	Otis Cater W.M. Henderson M. Everett Day Buddy Meeks Henry P. Roberts Walter Fryza
WWII	Helen S. Swint Robert C. Gibbs Joseph A. Stone Lacy Huie Jr. Gilbert F. Tyler Stanley S. Boak Jack Stephens James H. Brantley, Sr. C.E. Speir Calvin T. Bruce Milton S. Bruce James S. Bruce Royal Fauscett George Purdy Carl L. Whitlock, Sr. Cecil Babb Paul E. Seay James C. Rowell Tom Hand Jack W. McNair Robert G. Boyd Walter Simpson Willard L. Divins Wesley Echols Ganes A. Miller Lofton Lee Hill Wilber L. Harris James C. Cottingham Wesley G. Cottingham, Sr. Calvin Bunn Samuel P. McCullough Harold Hooper Clover L. Jones L.C. Williamson Wymon Simpson M.L. Smith Edward Varner Joseph Smith Paul Fauscett William L. Sims Robert E. McMullen W. W. “Billy” Clarke Ben “Hut” McCullough J. Ross Palmer Bill Stephens Carroll McBrayer John A. Suder Hoke S. Cartledge Blakeley R. Swint George L. Legg B.B. Mauldin William A. Powell Murray P. Boak Trenton J. Alford George H. Hill Richard Stephens Charlie E. Walden Pope A. Roark Robert L. Samples, Sr. Henry S. Lee Dean Cartledge James R. Lane Apolinar R. Orona William J. “Jim” Hill Travis D. Vaughn George Purdy Walter Smith William H. Lindsey Charles (Red) Kellow Paul S. Weiner Charles A. Wenz
Korea	Charles Smith Homer A. Vincent C.F. Roberts William B. Harris Paul E. Seay Lamar Minton Roland J. Ledet Carlton J. Ledet A.J. Ledet, Jr. Henry Earl Manning E. Lindy Krebs Travis L. Cantrell George H. Mack Marvin C. Hasty James Montgomery John A. Suder William W. Mitchell Robert F. Swint J.B. Boyd Herbert C. Roper Andrew J. Crawley, Jr. Michael Messick Palmer Underwood
Vietnam	p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ‘Helvetica Neue’; color: #454545} Charles L. Williamson William “Bill” Jones Ed Rawls, Jr. Wilton B. Robertson John A. Stone Benny Fauscett Donald F. Wiegmann Randall Green Sr. SSG Robert E. Bruce Sherrel “Smitty” Smith Roger J. Watson, Sr.  Douglas Hembree Willie A. Brown, Sr. Fred E. Padgett Joel R. Swint Wallace Crews Jerry R. Walden Gary Patton Walter E. Fryza Bobby Ray Gardner Stepney Shedrick Samuel D. Walden
Desert Storm	SSG Robert E. Bruce
U.S. Army	Elbert R. Thompson David E. Barron James L. Jay, Sr. Michael H. Messick
U.S. Air Force	Anthony F. Lotti Sr. George W. Smith
U.S. Navy	Robert Uzee
U.S. Marine Corps	Byron “Butch” Hand
U.S. Army Reserve	Luther W. Maddox

Clayton County’s Veteran of the Month is U.S. Army PFC Rudolph Valentino Wesley of Forest Park, who turned 100 on November 6. He recently was honored at the Board of Commissioners meeting. Wesley, known to friends and neighbors as “Mr. Rudolph,” served honorably in the late stage of World War II,  in the last group that was deployed in January 1943.  While serving as a Police Patrol escort for troops leaving the area, Wesley was blown up in an ammo dump but survived. In September 1945, Wesley was honorably discharged as a war hero.

Other Veterans of the Month since last Veterans Day include:

Here are some more of our local veterans, both living and deceased. Feel free to e-mail your loved one’s service photo, rank, and branch of service and we will add them to the collection. Please advise of any errors and we will correct them.

Thank You For Your Service, Clayton County

SSG Sandra Givens Scott

U.S. Army

SFC Edward J. Scott

U.S. Army

SFC James C. Kemp

U.S. Army

MSG Sparkle K. Adams

U.S. Air Force

Pvt. Mickey Garber

U.S. Army

H. Drew Andrews

U.S. Army

TSgt David A. Vollmer

U.S. Air Force

MSG (Ret.) Patricia Baisden

U.S. Army

SGM (Ret.) Carlton D. Holloway

U.S. Army

Arthur Hughes

Georgia Army National Guard

SGM Eddie Turner

U.S. Army

SGM Wilbert Jordan

U.S. Army

SFC Jeff DeTar

U.S. Army

SSG (Ret.) Bonita E. Crawford

SUPSGT (Ret.) Mike Glanton

U.S. Army

Perla Glanton

U.S. Army

Col. Samuel Edward Seetin, Jr.

U.S. Army

Lt Col (Ret.) Charley James

U.S. Air Force

AT2 Calvin (Bev) Blount

U.S. Navy

Mickey (Michelle) Bruce

U.S. Coast Guard

Sgt. Leroy Travis

U.S. Army

SSgt Clarence L. Burnough

U.S. Marine Corps

PFC Mose Ensley

U.S. Army

Col. (Ret.) Brad Beasley

U.S. Army

SFC (Ret.) Victoria Taylor

U.S. Army

Maj. (Ret.) Ida Weiner

U.S. Army

Col. (Ret.) Wes Weiner

U.S. Army

Sgt. (Ret.) James Toth

U.S. Army Corps/Army Air Force

John H. Pierce

U.S. Marine Corps

Harry E. Williams

U.S. Army

Cpt. Jamie Carlington

U.S. Army

Drill Serg Larry W. Bussey

U.S. Army

SGT Preston Thurman

U.S. Marine Corps

Sgt. (Ret.) Charles Cooper

U.S. Army

SP4 Victoria Storey

U.S. Army

SGT Regina Holsey

U.S. Marine Corps

SFC (Ret.) Willie J. Jackson

U.S. Army

PO3 Ivan C. Baldwin

U.S. Navy

SP5 Gary Fambrough

U.S. Army

MSG Rodney Dean

U.S. Army

SrA Thomas Pough

U.S. Air Force Reserve

E-4 Héctor Gutierrez

Georgia National Guard

SSG Gerrian Hawes

U.S. Army

Sgt. Robert Hawes

U.S. Army

R. Daniel

U.S. Air Force

D. Ramos

U.S. Army

D. Whitehead

U.S. Marine Corps

J. Cruzelon

U.S. Army

A. Morgan

U.S. Air Force

S. Johnson

U.S. Army

E. Ellis

U.S. Marine Corps

R. Meehan

U.S. Army

M. Malone

U.S. Marine Corps

A. Coley-Hebron

U.S. Marine Corps

J. Askew

U.S. Marine Corps

A. Holmes

U.S. Army

SSG Anthony Smith

U.S. Air Force

SPC 5 Marion E. Hutchinson

U.S. Army

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In Memoriam: Clayton County’s Fallen

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World War I

Pvt. Tom Bennett
Sgt. George C. Burnett
Cpl. Tom Frank Gardner
PFC Clarence Henderson
Pvt. Brewster Jackson
App. Seaman Albee Lewis Mitchell
PFC William Henry Mitchell
Pvt. Alton L. Rowden
Pvt. Clark Smith
1 Lt. David King Summers
PFC Cloyed H. Swaney

World War II

Pvt. William O. Adamson, U.S. Army
Pvt. John E. Anderson, U.S. Army
PFC Charles L. Awtrey, U.S. Army
TSG James C. Brown, U.S. Army
TEC5 Robert E. Crawford, U.S. Army
Pvt. Jack W. DeLay, U.S. Army
1 LT Latham Denning, U.S. Army
PFC Robert L. Gilstrap, U.S. Army
TSG Paul W. Haney, U.S. Army
Cpl. Matthew L. Heard, U.S. Army
TEC5 Arlin H. Hodges, U.S. Army
2 LT Ernest C. Hyde, U.S. Army
PFC Isaac D. Kimberly, U.S. Army
1 SG Jamison C. Maddox, U.S. Army
Sgt. Henry D. McLeroy, Jr., U.S. Army
Sgt. Glenn Naylor, U.S. Army
TSG Charles L. Peacock, U.S. Army
PFC John D. Phillips, U.S. Army
Sgt. John A. Poindexter, Jr., U.S. Army
TSG William J. Reagin, U.S. Army
SSG Francis E. Scott, U.S. Army
Pvt. Lloyd R. Taylor, Dr, U.S. Army
Maj. Harwell P. Tilley III, U.S, Army
TEC5 Earl Warner, U.S. Army
TEC5 Frank S. Wilson, U.S. Army
Cpl. Thomas E. Brown, U.S. Marine Corps
PFC Daniel H. Cates, U.S. Marine Corps
AD 3c Thomas William Moss, U.S. Naval Reserve

Korea

PFC Rufus Brown, Jr., U.S. Army
Cpl. Glenn Monroe Ketchersid, U.S. Marine Corps

Vietnam

Maj. Joseph Adrian Bishop, U.S. Army
Sgt. Thomas Lee Banks, U.S. Army
SP4 Daniel Lee Brock, U.S. Army
SP4 Johnny Ray Bryson, U.S. Army
PFC Stephen Manton Campbell, U.S. Marine Corps
SP4 Daniel Lee Chamblee, U.S. Army
Cpl. Alonzo Carlton Collier, U.S. Army
WO1 Robert K. Everest III, U.S. Army
Cdr. Frank Eugene Fullerton, U.S. Navy
1 LT Walter Murrah Gibson, U.S. Army
Sgt. Claude Vernor Giles, U.S. Army
PFC Thomas Graham, Jr., U.S. Army
WO1 Benjamin Wayne Haire, U.S. Army
Lance Cpl. Ray Wesley Hesterlee, U.S. Marine Corps
Cpl. Robert Milton Johnson, U.S. Marine Corps
SP4 Melvin Lipscomb, U.S. Army
WO1 Johnny F. Long, U.S. Army
Cpl. Marvin Lacy Mayo, U.S. Army
Sgt. David Carroll McCranie, U.S. Army
PFC Wayne Houston McKinley, U.S. Marine Corps
PFC Johnson Minnitee, Jr., U.S. Army
PO1 Dan Baker Norton, U.S. Navy
Cpl. Robert Jerry Padgett, U.S. Army
1 LT Raymond Alan Powell, U.S. Army
PFC Carl Wayne Pritchett, U.S.Army
Lance Cpl. Rocke Darrell Ramsey, U.S. Marine Corps
SP4 Kenneth Douglas Smith, U.S. Army
1 LT Thomas Trammel Staples II, U.S. Army
WO1 William Thomas Wallace, Jr., U.S. Army
Lance Cpl. Jerry Gordon Waller, U.S. Marine Corps
Cpl. Philip Warren Weaver, U.S. Army

Gulf War (Desert Shield/Desert Storm)

Pfc. Charles S. Walker, U.S. Army

Operation Iraqi Freedom

SPC4 Justin Robert Jarrett, U.S. Army

Operation Enduring Freedom

SFC John Curtis Beale, U.S. Army National Guard
SPC Anthony Marquis Lightfoot, U.S. Army
MSG Mitchell Wayne Young, U.S. Army