Monday is Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice. Following is a list of service members from Vermilion County who died in war. The list, which may be incomplete, was culled from newspaper articles and records from the National Archives. May we never forget the bravery and the selflessness of these and other Americans who paid the price for our freedom.
Afghanistan War
Kenneth Nichols
Iraq War
Justin Penrod
Francis Trussel Jr.
Jeffrey Wallace
Beirut, Lebanon
Randy Scott
Vietnam War
Thomas E. Brown
Jerry M. Chunges
John W. Davis
Francis W. Deal Jr.
Perry Dicken Jr.
Robert F. Enderby
Daniel F. Farrell
John A. Goldsberry
William E. Gooden
Michael L. Hutson
Walter P. Jackson
Earl D. Jenkins
David L. Judy
Joseph A. Kelnhofer
Harry S. Mason Jr.
Kenneth R. McAllister
Ferenc J. Ramm
Cecil L. Render
Robert C. Sherman
Robert D. Shipman
Kenneth M. Walls
Michael J. Welch
Larry E. Whitington
Mark D. Young
Korean War
Robert E. Adcox
Arthur Bishop
Louis W. Bratton
Larry R. Cimino
Harold E. Copsy
James Cornell
Floyd Deck
Paul E. Duez
John R. Gibson
Gerald W. Goodner
Edward Gossar
Wiliam W. Hamilton
Raymond E. Haun
Allan Hayes
Bernard Hewitt
Charles High
William Hopkins
Francus Hurst
Clyde E. Lamkins
Wilbur E. Lewis
Orville J. Lipscombe
Clarence F. Maiden
Raymond E. Mason
Clarence B. Odle
Harold Osborne
John H. Parezo
Jack K. Pate
Harold M. Saylor
James F. Shaw
Edward L. Swearinger
Ralph Tull
Paul Vilutes Jr.
Earl V. Wise
Robert Wurtsbaugh
World War II
Homer H. Abbott
David R. Allen
Donald H. Anderson
Robert W. Anderson
Samuel W. Anderson
Herman F. Antonini
Anthone Ark
Jack Ashbo
Earl R. Ashcraft
Justin C. Attutis
Frank Baer
Floyd D. Bailey
Kenneth D. Bailey
Charles Barker
Lewis E. Barrick
Paul E. Bartley
William C. Baumgart
Lowell R. Bennett
Peter Bessarab
Mario L. Biava
Arthur W. Birchfield
Clyde J. Blair
Jerome G. Bohland
Billy J. Bradfield
Wiliam Brandenburg
Wilbur L. Brewer
Russell A. Brown
Glen L. Burner
Alvin G. Burr
Wiliam H. Bush
Raymond Butler
Dewey F. Butterworth
Wiliam H. Byram
Howard E. Callaway
Frank L. Calvert
Glen Carder
Eugene C. Carlson
Donald Carpenter
Ralph R. Carpenter
Billie E. Carrigan
Charles V. Carter
Harold R. Casner
Leo Cebulski
Charles E. Chandler
Walter R. Chandler
Robert B. Chapman
Donald J. Cheffer
Wiliam E. Cherry
Wilbur K. Chester
Glen D. Chew
Cecil R. Childs
James V. Chittick
George E. Cisco
Joseph E. Clark
William T. Clearwater
John B. Clodfelder
Wiliam O. Coe
Orville A. Colby
Francis X. Collignon
Clifford J. Collins
William E. Colvin
George R. Connor
Rufus G. Cook
Stephen W. Cope
Jack T. Corley
Donald G. Cornell
Robert L. Cory
George P. Cosgrove
Ralph W. Cox
Raymond N. Cox
Wilbur G. Cox
R.D. Crawford
Harry Cronkhite
William R. Crooks
Geore E. Crowder
Harold E. Crowder
Charles N. Cummins
Ben Davis
Paul G. Davis
Owen L. Day
Robert L. Day
Archille F. Delanois
Harold I. Delanois
Archie DeLay
Eugene W. Demlow
Jack V. Dengler
Clay Devins
Virgil E. Devoss
Frank H. Dickson
Everett Dietrich
Richard E. Doggett
William J. Dolan
Clarence E. Donaldson
William F. Donnell
Rezin J. Dougherty
Richard D. Dowiatt
Richard I. Downey
Burton Downing
Charles M. Downs
John I. Driver
William J. Dukes
George I. Dyar
Paul D. Edgington
John T. Edwards
Walter O. Edwards
William P. Edwards
Robert R. Egnew
Wilbert R. Elder
Clarence J. Elliott
Jack D. Elliott
Eldon E. Emory
John M. Endaelis
Wendell A. Erskine
Ernest M. Falls
Theodore V. Filicsky
Carl W. Fliermans
Herman J. Foehrer
Lowell H. Ford
Donald W. Forein
John H. Foulk
George Fowler
Kenneth D. Franklin
Harry C. Fredericks
E.O. Friese
George H. Gardner Jr.
James Geades
Billy J. Gerkin
Thomas Gibson
Eugene E. Gilbreath
Ferris R. Gillen
Charles W. Glaze
Emil C. Golubic
Roger A. Gooch
Donald V. Gooden
Lewis Gray
Ralph E. Gray
William Gray
Russell M. Green
Raymond R. Greene
James L. Griffin
Manfred C. Grimes
Robert D. Griner
Joseph E. Gritton
Mack J. Groner
Lewis E. Grubb Jr.
Alfred B. Guadagne
Harry C. Guiltner
Gene A. Guthrie
Russell Guthrie
Raymond R. Haas
Wesley C. Hall
William A. Hardesty
Max C. Harry
Roy Hayes
Newton J. Heaton
Everett L. Henderson
John E. Hendrich
Amasa J. Hendricks
Carl G. Hendricks
W.C. Hendrickson
Harvey J. Henry
Robert W. Hess
Ronald W. Hiatt
Marion O. Hickman
Raymond C. Hill
Thurman G. Hill
Clyde D. Hillery
John G. Holstine
Victor E. Howard
Ernest B. Howell
Ernest Huber
George M. Huckstadt
Kenneth G. Huffman
Robert S. Huffman
Homer G. Hughes
Robert D. Hunt
Marion Hurst
Gene Huskinsson
Samuel Huskinsson
Gerald D. Ingle
Leslie W. Irvin
Robert L. Jinkins
Franklyn Johnson Jr.
Harry M. Johnson
Horace A. Johnson
Howard V. Johnson
Robert Johnson
Woodrow C. Johnson
Frank M. Jones
Robert K. Jones
Edward J. Jonikas
George R. Jordan
Charles Kaneen
Kenneth L. Keller
Henry P. Kerkes
Robert K. Kerns
Maxie E. Kessler
Henry W. Ketzle
Joseph R. Kietzman
Carl H. Kilbury
John V. Klacik
Ralph G. Knight
Joseph Kotcher
Eugene E. Kuehner
Harodl L. Lackey
Pete Laitas
Charles Alonzo Lane
Thomas E. Lane Jr.
Norman A. Larrance
Leroy S. Law
Robert Lawrence
Henry E. Lee
Norwood Lee
Reed A. Lewis
Robert G. Liggett
Donald R. Lucas
Robert E. Lucas
Roy J. Macklin Jr.
Fred Malo
Howard D. Marshall
Daniel L. Martin
George K. Martin
Ralph A. Martin
Jerome Mattingly
Donald E. Mattocks
Wayne V. Mauck
Alexander Mazeikas
Leo W. McCoy
Norman R. McDaniel
Donald O. McKee
Richard W. McLain
Harry W. McLaughlin
Ernest L. McNeese
Kenneth W. McVicker
Frank L. Mead
Herbert Menestrina
Daniel H. Metcalf
Leon H. Miller
Julian G. Mitchell
Ernest W. Moore
Mitchell Moore
Ambrose D. Morgan
Herman M. Morris
Paul Morris
Russel Moser
Ralph Mount Jr.
Herschel Mullins
Frederick Murray
Charles E. Nix
Wayne M. Noblitt
William P. Nolan
John Nowling
William H. Offutt
Lambert L. Olson
Perry L. Olson
Harold R. Oyler Jr.
Robert L. Palmer
George H. Parrish
Horace Payne
Robert F. Phillips
Eugene Pickett
John H. Pitco*ck
Amos H. Poland
Harold H. Poland
Charles E. Ponder
Robert C. Potter
Louis Poullos
Robert B. Powell
William V. Powell
Robert W. Pribble
Harry D. Proffitt
James L. Pruitt
Fred A. Pugh
Charles W. Quigle
Otis E. Randall
David F. Reagan
Ralph P. Regan
Lawrence E. Reitz
John Revello
Albert C. Reynolds
Francis J. Reynolds
Daniel J. Ribbe
Anthony P. Ringus
Ralph Ritter
Todd Roberts
Carl N. Rogers
Paul W. Rogers
Frank Rojas
Robert J. Rothwell
Charles F. Russell
Frank E. Sallee
Carl V. Schermerhorn
David L. Scott
Harold R. Scott
Ralph J. Seianas
William D. Sells
Charles C. Shoffer
Delois H. Shambis
Joseph K.S. Shank
Glen D. Sharp
Robert Shea
William Shelato
Harvey M. Shields
William Silverman Jr.
Orville B. Singleton
Richard M. Small
Harry L. Smith
Milton H. Smith
Freddie T. Snodgrass
Phil Snyder
Robert F. Songer
Russell F. Sprouls
Robert Stamey
Robert G. Stamos
George E. Stark
Harlan F. Steele
Archie L. Stice
Curtis L. Stine
Williams Strainis
William H. Swisher
Richard C. Syers
Alfred B. Talbot
Thomas G. Tate
Max A. Tevebaugh
James G. Thomas
Ralph L. Thomas
Eugene F. Tillotson
Jarrel F. Tuttle
Homer E. Utterback
Charles J. Valesky
Marvin W. Van Dorn
Harry E. Van Tuyle Jr.
Jacl B. Vanzandt
Berah T. Vibbeart
Billy C. Virgin
Curtis N.W. Vogt
Charles S. Voyles
William J. Walter
Robert A. Ward
Wilbert C. Waterstredt
William R. Watters
Frank E. Waymire
Preston Weathers
George D. Weaver
Thomas Wiant
Charles E. Wiliams
Charles E. Williams Jr.
George Williamson Jr.
Forrest L. Wimsett
Alfred Wise
Ethan A. Wise
Raymond C. Withers
Lamoine D. Yager
Edward J. Yarusinksy
John C. Youhas
John W. Zander
William Zimmerman
Robert M. Zorns
World War I
Noel N. Akers
Ora Bennett
Frank C. Berndt
Vinson Boardman
Charles Bradley
Earl Brooks
Andrew S. Brown
Max Burmeister
W.H. Busby
Hugh Conerty
Leonard Davis
Robert Donaldson
John W. Elliott
Adolph Evans
Andrew L. Esslinger
Fred B. Everitt
Olen Fultz
Howard L. Gass
Burton C. Gillett
Lewis C. Glasco*ck
Hazlett Hahne
Edward Hart
Benjamin E. Henderson
Payge High
Glen Hockenbury
Albert E. Hudson
Walter E. Kesler
Wiliam Kuemmerle
Theodore Layden
Harry L. McCune
Wayman Maberry
Robert B. Marshall
Frank Martingly
W.P. McAuliffe
William D. Meeder
Franklin H. Moone
William J. Lehmann
Roland Shipman
Leslie Harter
Frank P. Noone
Frank C. Nulkin
Alonzo Peak
Henry Penney
Rupert H. Phipps
Curtis G. Redden
Richard M. Reddy
Charles A. Rieker
Irwin F. Rife
Harry A. Smith
Philip O. Smith
Orel S. Smith
Arthur G. Sorette
Guy E. Stitt
Charles F. Turner
Joseph Webb
Jewell Whyte
William D. Young
