U.S. Veterans who attended school in Eastland County except
for Ranger. Some veterans listed maybe deceased.
KIA=Killed in Action Updated: 12.09.2024
School-Class Veteran Service Branch, Rank, Conflict, & Medals
EHS-1936 General Lloyd Siebert - US Army Air Corps, WWII 1941-45, Italy
CHS-1939 Thomas Cullen Hart - US Army Air Corps, WWII
CHS-1939 Morris Douglas White, Sr. (decd) - US Army Air Corps, WWII,
486th Bomb Group, B24 & B17, retired in 1965 after 22 yrs., LT.
CHS-1941 Edward Ernest Wende (decd) - US Navy, WWII
CHS-1942 Glenn Pup Doggett (decd) - US Navy, Korea
CHS-1942 Wilbourne Dale Ivie (decd) - WWII
AHS-1943 Ray Blackwell (decd) - US Army, WWII
CHS-1943 John Edward Davis (decd) - US Navy
CHS-1943 Marvin Rex Ramsower (decd) - US Army
CHS-1943 William T. Sherman (decd) - US Army Air Corps
CHS-1944 Martin "Buck" Cleveland (decd) - US Navy, WWII, USS Alabama
EHS-1944 Dr. Norman Durham (decd) - US Navy, WWII
CHS-1945 Richard Elbert Anderson (decd) - US Army, WWII
CHS-1945 Donald True Gorr (decd) - US Army
EHS-1945 Frank Steen Herring (decd) - US Army, 1950-52
CHS-1946 Ealy M. Black (decd) - US Army, USAF, Guard, 34 yrs.
EHS-1946 Norman Richardson (decd) - US Navy, USAF
CRHS-1946 George McBee (decd) - US Arm & Reserves, Korea, awarded combat stars
CHS-1947 James Lee Christie (decd) - US Army
CHS-1947 Ted Louis Fields (decd) - US National Guard
CHS-1947 Harold John Reich (decd) - National Guard
CHS-1947 Charles Wende (decd) - Texas Army National Guard
CRHS-1947 Kenneth Ray Hill (decd) - US Navy
EHS-1947 C.C. "Pete" Strickler (decd) - US Army, Korea
CHS-1948 Roy Glenn Trapp - US Navy, Korea
CHS-1948 George R. Watts (decd) - USAF, Korea
GHS-1948 Jimmie Max Crawley (decd) - US Army, killed in Korea
CHS-1949 Joe Bacon (decd) - US Air Force, Staff Sergeant
CHS-1949 Emmett L. Rich (decd) - National Guard, 1949-62
EHS-1949 William W. Cooper (decd) - Korea
MVHS-1949 Lindy Dale Langlitz (decd) - US Army, 1952-54
EHS-1950 Robert L. Harbin (decd) - US Navy, 1951
CHS-1951 Jimmie Griffine (decd) - US Navy, 1952-56
EHS-1951 Gerold L. Harris (decd) - USAF, Vietnam, Master Sargent
CHS-1952 Luther H. McCrea (decd) - US Navy, aircraft carrier, tech
EHS-1952 Richard Dick Evatt (decd) - US Army
RSHS-1952 Weldon C. Hill (decd) - US Army
CHS-1953 Jimmy Harold Jones (decd) - USAF
CHS-1953 Frederick D. Shockley (decd) - US Army, Captain
CHS-1953 Carl Arthur Ziehr (decd) - US Army
GHS-1953 Jerry Ray Skaggs (decd) - US Army
CHS-1954 Marcos Gallegos (decd) - US Navy, radio operator, Philippines
CHS-1954 Joe D. Ziehr (decd) - National Guard
CHS-1955 Freddric Anderson (decd) - US Army, Korea
CHS-1955 Charles P. Chick Jr. (decd) - US Army, Korea
CHS-1955 Billy Charles Miller (decd) - US Army, 1959-61, Germany
CHS-1955 Charles Donald Poe (decd) - US Army & US Navy
CHS-1955 Richard C. Thames (decd) - Army National Guard
CHS-1956 James L. Branton (decd) - US Army
CHS-1956 William Joyner, Jr. (decd) - US Army
EHS-1956 Odis G. McDonald (decd) - USAF
EHS-1956 Terry Don Warren (decd) - US Army
CHS-1958 Jerald Dowe Wallace (decd) - US Army, 1st Lieutenant, Vietnam, KIA
EHS-1955 Berry D. Bownds (decd) - USAF
OHS-1958 Thomas Monroe Alfrod, Jr. (decd) - US Army
EHS-1959 William Elrod Sr. (decd) - US Navy
EHS-1959 Kenneth Charles Leach (decd) - US Army
CHS-1960 Donald Hale (decd) - US Army, Vietnam
OHS-1960 Johnny E. Ferrell Jr. (decd) - US Navy
CHS-1961 Robert Bruce Speegle (decd) - US Army, during Vietnam
GHS-1964 Ernest Richard Parsons (decd) - USAF
OHS-1964 Benny K. Rodgers (decd) - USAF
EHS-1965 William Sidney Herridge (decd) - USAF, Vietnam
CHS-1965 Danny Wade Clack (decd) - TX National Guard
CHS-1966 Harold Davies (decd) - US Army, Vietnam
CHS-1966 Gary Lynn Holdridge (decd) - USAF
CHS-1966 Larry W. Warren (decd) - US Marine Corps
CHS-1966 Walt Wilkerson (decd) - US Army, Sergeant, Bronze Star
CRHS-1966 Jimmy D. Parrigan (decd) - USAF, Vietnam
GHS-1966 Louis Torrez (decd) - US Army
OHS-1966 Clifton B. Steddum (decd) - US Army, Vietnam
RSHS-1967 Danny Ray Schaefer (decd) - USAF, Vietnam
CHS-1969 Audrey Tucker (decd) - TX Nation Guard
CHS-1970 Randy Glenn Hamilton (decd) - USAF, Personnel Specialist
CHS-1973 Bob E. Maynard (decd) - US Army, Medic, Vietnam
CRHS-1955 Carl William Rice - US Navy, 20yrs, Vietnam
CHS-1992 David E. Jacobs - US Air Force
CHS-1993 Cullen W. Rabel - US Air Force
CHS-1996 Charlie J. McKinney - US Navy
CHS-1998 Timothy W. Lawrence - US Navy
CHS-2000 Michael Ivie - US Navy
CHS-2002 Brandon C. Elizalda - US Marine Corps
CHS-2003 Terry LD. Trantham - US Army
CHS-2004 Ryan T. Barnes - US Navy
CHS-2004 Howdy D. Johnston - US Army
CHS-2004 Perfecto Rodriguez, Jr.
CHS-2004 Andrew White - US Navy
CRHS-1941 Forrest D. Keith (decd) - US Navy, WWII
EHS-1935 Marvin Tarver (decd) - US Army
EHS-1936 William Edward Gilkey, Sr. (decd) - US Navy, WWII, radio operator
EHS-1941 James Travis Harrell (decd) - US Air Force, WWII, Korean Conflict
EHS-1943 James T. Wright (decd) - US Navy
EHS-1944 Felix Spurlen (decd) - US Army, US Navy, WWII
EHS-1951 Billy B. Jordon - US Navy, Korean Conflict
EHS-1954 Raul Herrara (decd) - US Army
EHS-1965 William S. Herridge (decd) - USAF, Vietnam, B-52 tail gunner
RSHS-1967 Ronald Dean Hunt (decd) - US Army
EHS-1968 Thomas Gregory Daniel - U.S. Marine Corps
EHS-1972 Forrest Tucker (decd) - USAF, TEC Sgt
EHS-1978 Rita Armstrong LeRoy - Army National Guard, Sgt.,
Operation Iraqi Freedom
EHS-1995 Ryan Holt - US Marine Corps, Operation Iraqi Freedom
EHS-1996 Paul Holt - US Marine Corps Reserve
EHS-2001 Frieda Threet - US Army
EHS-2003 James M. Bailey - US Army
EHS-2003 Riley L. Frausto - US Army
EHS-2003 Christopher White - US Marine Corps
EHS-2004 Ben S. Bible - US Air Force
EHS-2004 Kaleb C. Blaylock - US Marine Corps
EHS-2004 Cody Young - US Marine Corps
EHS-2004 Kevin L. Wollam - US Marine Corps
EHS-2005 Diana K. Black - US Army Nation Guard
EHS-2005 Christopher B. Russell - US Navy
EHS-2005 Jason R. Williams - US Air Force
EHS-2007 Dereck R. Bible - US Army
EHS-2007 Jordan D. Parker - US Army
EHS-2007 Kasey D. Volpitta - US Army National Guard
EHS-2008 Kaleb S. Dove - US Marine Corps
EHS-2009 Dusty T. Busk - US Marine Corps
EHS-2009 Michael C. Smart-Stennett
EHS-2012 Donna Glenn - TX Army National Guard
GHS-1944 Tommy Stinnett (decd) - US Navy, WWII, Pacific Theater
GHS-1945 Bobby Joe Boswell (decd) - US Army, WWII
GHS-1949 Roy F. Dennis (decd) - US Army, MP, Korean Conflict
GHS-1958 John T. Brown (decd) - US Army National Guard, Staff Sergent
OHS-1940 Adra Lee Fox (decd) - US Navy, WWII, USS Tulagi, 4 battle stars,
served in Southern France, Lingayan Gulf, Iwo Jima & Okinawa
OHS-1960 Connie Yarbrough (decd) - US Army, Operation Big Lift-Germany
OHS-1961 Bennie J. O'Brien (decd) - US Army during Vietnam
OHS-1965 Burl David McGraw III (decd) - US Navy, Vietnam 65-67
Others Robert C. Atchison (decd) - USAF
Others Scott Bailey (decd) - US Army, Korean Conflict
Others Dale O. Bakker (decd) - USAF, Air Police
Others Joe Robert Bowles (decd) - US Army, Sgt, Korean Conflict
Others Donald Scott Brinkley (decd) - US Army
Others Roy Hasting Byrd (decd) - US Army 1956-58
Others Fernando Canales (decd) - US Army, Vietnam
Others William J. Carmack (decd) - US Army, Vietnam
Others Sharley Joe Cooper (decd) - US Army
Others Charles Courtney (decd) - US Army
Others John Howard Craven (decd) - US Navy, Korean Conflict
Others Billy J. Daffern, Sr. (decd) - US Navy
Others William Eudy (decd) - US Navy
Others Jimmy Reid Everett (decd) - USAF
Others Major Powell Farnsworth Jr. (decd) - US Navy, WWII
Others Monty Nolan Faulk (decd) - US Navy, Vietnam
Others Alfonso Ramon Gaeta (decd) - US Army/Marines, WWII
Others Willard L. Griffin (decd) - US Army Air Corps, WWII, B-24
Others James A. Harper (decd) - USAF 1951-55
Others Carroll W. Hogan (decd) - US Army
Others Dudley B. Houle (decd) - US Army/AF, WWII
Others Charles M. Humphries (decd) - US Army
Others Drew Dan Jackson (decd) - US Army, Korean Conflict
Others Charles Lee Jessup (decd) - National Guard
Others Dryan L. Johnson (decd) - US Army, Korea
Others Harvey Lawrence Johnson - US Army, WWII
Others Michael Henry Johnson (decd) - US Army, 20 yrs.
Others William Charles Kierre (decd) - National Guard, US Army,
Korean Conflict, Sergeant
Others Tommie Joe Lee (decd) - US Army, Vietnam
Others Jimmy Dale Maples (decd) - US Navy
Others Lee R. Maxwell (decd) - US Navy, WWII
Others Bobby Joe McCoy (decd) - National Guard
Others James Miears (decd) - US Navy
Others Darwin L. Miller (decd) - US Marines, WWII, Okinawa
Others Douglas Wayne Mims (decd) - US Army, Korea
Others Dudley J. Nelsoon (decd) - US Navy
Others Merrel F. Nichols - USAF, Vietnam, Tech Sergeant
Others Jimmy I. Orosco (decd) - US Navy
Others Ron Palmer (decd) - US Marine Corps
Others Rudolph S. Parker (decd) - US Army, Korea
Others Royce Lee Parsley (decd) - US Army, Korea
Others Robert Gleason Perkins (decd) - US Army, WWII, England
Others Reginald Van Pittman (decd) - US Army, Germany
Others Charles Preston (decd) - US Army
Others Micheal Dean Puntney (decd) - USAF, Vietnam
Others Orval Rodgers (decd) - US Navy 1965-74, Vietnam, USS Enterprise
Others Frank Saylors (decd) - US Army, medic, Vietnam
Others Roscoe L. Seay (decd) - US Marine Corps
Others Harrell Loyd Steddum (decd) - US Army, military police
Others Rollie Wayne Stennett (decd) - US Army 1954-56
Others Roger Lynn Stephenson (decd) - US Army
Others Ralph Eugene Stevens (decd) - US Army, National Guard, 1963-68
Others Lloyd Ray Swindle (decd) - US Army, Korean Conflict
Others Billy Vann (decd) - USAF, Korea & Vietnam, 22 yrs.
Others Ike Watts (decd) - US Navy, WWII, Pacific Theater
Others Robert M. Webb Jr. (decd) - US Navy, Midshipman
Others H.T. Wilson (decd) - US Marine Corps, WWII
Others John A. Wood (decd) - US Army, Okinawa
CJC Fred Harvey Allen (decd) - US Army, 25th Infantry, Korea
CJC Thomas W. Anderson (decd) - Texas National Guard
CJC Carolyn Moye Broughton (decd) - Women Auxiliary Army Corp, WWII
CJC Burnice H. Coleman (decd) - US Navy, Korea
CJC Lionel Otho Crisp (decd) - US Army
CJC Carlton L. Edwards, Jr. (decd) - US Navy
CJC Henry "Hank" Evan (decd) - USAF, KANG, Senior Master Sargent
CJC Rex Neil Farley (decd) - USAF, Korea
CJC Jimmy Dale Farrow (decd) - USAF, Vietnam
CJC Ross Alford Finley (decd) - National Guard, US Navy
CJC Wilbert Gerst (decd) - US Army
CJC Donald Hale (decd) - US Army, Vietnam
CJC Bobby Glen Johnson (decd) - USAF
CJC Jack Lannom (decd) - USAF
CJC Ralph Edward Harness (decd) - USAF, Germany & England
CJC Rondal Howard Hodges (decd) - US Army, Korea
CJC Richard Lee Hopson (decd) - US Marines Corp, 1953-56, Korea
CJC Jesse David Jones (decd) - US Army 1964-67
CJC Captain Billy C. Matthews (decd) - US Navy
CJC Teddy Wayne McCulloch (decd) - Texas National Guard
CJC John "Jack" Mellor (decd) - USAF, Iceland, Spain, Vietnam
CJC Marvin C. Powell (decd) - US Army, Vietnam
CJC Joe Edward Schaefer (decd) - US Army, radar tech
CJC Daryl Allen Tafelmeyer (decd) - US Army, Operation Desert Storm,
3-bronze stars
CJC Leonard Elton Tipton (decd) - US Army, 20 yrs., Korea, Vietnam
CJC J.D. Wilson (decd) - US Army
CJC Joey Howark York (decd) - US Navy
SEVEN EASTLAND COUNTY SERVICEMEN WHO PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN VIETNAM:
Everett W. Everett, Willie D. Tyrone, James K. Gray, Joseph A. Venerable,
Larry Roberts Jr., Jerald D. Wallace, & Larry Joe Rodges.
NOTE: This list is unofficial & not complete.