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Gold Star Mothers Buried at Palacios Cemetery Palacios, Texas |
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Grace is buried in
Palacios Cemetery, Section A, Row 1. She and her husband John Franklin
Barnett, Sr. (April 2, 1883 - March 10, 1963) are buried near their son
Second Lieutenant John Franklin Barnett, Jr.
Forces (February 25, 1913 -
October 13, 1944), United States Army Air who was killed in action in
Italy in World War II. At
the time of his death his family lived in Palacios. |
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Ethlyn is buried with her husband George Wright Curtis (November 25,
1889 - March 18, 1987) in Palacios
Cemetery, Section 4, Row 11. Their son, Corporal
George
Miller Curtis (July 19, 1919 - June 19, 1942), United States Army Air Forces
was
incarcerated and died as
a
Prisoner of War at Cabanatuan Prison in the Philippines. He is buried at the
Manila
American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines.
He was survived by his
wife: Avis (Gregory) Curtis; his parents. Ethlyn and George; his sister
Dorothy Lea; and brothers: Marvin Lloyd and Noel Dewees.
At the
time of his death his family lived at Palacios, Texas.
The Palacios American Legion Post was co-named in his honor after
World War II. |
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Lillie and her husband Mark Dillard (July 9, 1870 - March 3, 1960) are
buried in Palacios Cemetery, Section A, Row 10. Their
son Private First Class James Berry Dillard (February 26, 1922 - January
8, 1945), United States Army was killed in action during World War II.
His remains were not recovered.
At the time of his death his family lived in Palacios. |
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Alice is buried in
Palacios Cemetery, Section 1,
Row 9. She and her family are buried near Staff Sergeant
Jake Junior Fields (January 27, 1919 - October 25, 1944), United
States Army who was killed in action at Leyte, Philippines during World
War II. At the time of his
death his family was living in Palacios, Texas.
His father George Fields is buried at Brookside Memorial Park in
north Houston. |
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Alice and her husband
Alfred Fred Foisy (July 20, 1865 – January 22, 1935) are buried at
Palacios Cemetery,
near his son Wagoner Cyrille Marion Foisy
(December 11, 1893 – February 8, 1919) U.S. Army, in Section 4, Row 2,
Palacios Cemetery, Matagorda County, Texas. Mr. Foisy's son was killed in an
accident in Germany during WWI where he was serving with the Army of
Occupation. He was returned to Palacios, Matagorda County, Texas for
re-burial. |
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Annie and her husband James David Greenwood (April 3, 1858 - July 3, 1935)
are buried in
Palacios Cemetery,
Section F Row 5. Their son Private
Clarence L. Greenwood
(May, 1898 - October 10, 1918) United States Army, died of wounds
sustained while fighting with Company E, 141st Infantry Company in the
front line trenches in France during World War I. He is re-buried at
San
Antonio National Cemetery, Section G, Site 1371, San Antonio, Texas. At
the time of his death his family lived in Palacios, Texas. The Palacios
American Legion Post was first named in his honor in 1928. |
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Violene and her husband Sam Hebert (March 6, 1889 - December 25, 1974)
are buried in
Palacios Cemetery,
Section I. Sam's son Private First Class
John
Lee Hebert (July 29, 1920 - January 28, 1946) United States Army,
was killed while serving with the German Occupation. He is buried on the
west side of Section C. John's birth mother, Lettie, died when he was
young and her place of burial is unknown. His father married Violene and
she helped Sam raise John from the age of five. It is believed that the
Hebert family was living Palacios at the time of John's death. |
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Mollie and her
husband, Garrett Gordon Hope, Sr. (March 14,
1895 - August 4, 1967) are buried in
Palacios Cemetery,
Section 1, Row 11. Their son Garrett Gordon Hope, Jr. (1918 - July 25,
1944P, United States Marines Corps, was Missing In Action on Guam. His
body was never recovered and he is listed on the Wall of the Missing at
the
National Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific,
Honolulu, HI. |
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Hannah and her
husband Francis Marion Jackson (July 28, 1902 – April 11, 1986) are
buried in
Palacios Cemetery,
Section F, Row 12. Her son Technical Sergeant Lloyd Byron Maples
(March 27, 1920 – November 24, 1944), United States Army died of combat wounds in
France. He is buried at
Epinal
American Cemetery, France. Lloyd’s father, Lloyd Neri Maples (November 16, 1897 –
May 12, 1968), is buried at the Morton Cemetery, Richmond, Fort Bend
County, Texas. At the time of Lloyd Byron’s death the family was living
in Palacios, Texas. |
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Carrie and her husband Michael Edward Kelly (August 16, 1864 - May 25,
1933) are buried in Palacios Cemetery, Section F, Row 5.
Their son Private First Class Leo Francis Kelly (November 9, 1893
- September 29, 1918), United States Army died during World War I and is
buried at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France.
At the time of his death his family was living in Palacios,
Texas. Mrs. Kelly traveled to France on a
Gold Star Mothers' Pilgrimage
to visit the burial place of her son in 1930. She was the only Matagorda County mother
to do so. |
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Eunice is buried in Section 4, Row 4. She and her husband Richard E.
Killgore (August 10, 1899 - September 16, 1955) are buried in
Palacios Cemetery near their
sons:
Second Lieutenant Simmem Albert Killgore (May 25, 1920 -
September 15, 1944), United States Army Air Forces
Staff Sergeant Richard Arnold Killgore (November 16, 1921 -
January 29, 1944), United States Army Air Forces
Lieutenant Killgore
died from injuries he
received in an aircraft accident in England and Staff
Sergeant Killgore was killed in action in Germany.
At the time of their deaths their family lived in Palacios,
Texas. *we have two spellings: Kilgore & Killgore. |
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Salome is buried in
Palacios Cemetery, Section A, Row 7. She and her husband Manual F.
Miranda (August 9, 1895 - February 5, 1991) are buried near their son
Private William G. Miranda (February 2, 1921 - September 9, 1944),
United States Army who was killed in action in France during World War
II. At the time of his death
his family was living in Palacios, Texas. |
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Frances and her husband, John Karl Morris (November 28, 1888 – June
16, 1968), are buried in Palacios
Cemetery. Their son, Technical
Sergeant, Edward J. Morris (1922 - July 19, 1944), United States Army
Air Forces was killed in action over Germany. His remains were buried at
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri
Section 78 Site 956F-H, on April 4,
1950. |
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Hazel and her husband Ira Ambrose Ressler (January 25, 1879 - June 30, 1976)
are buried in Palacios Cemetery, Section A, Row 4. Their
son Sergeant James Herbert Ressler (June 4, 1925 - April 11, 1945), United
States Army Air Forces was killed in a B-24 training mission off the
coast of South Carolina. His
remains were not recovered. He was also survived by his wife, Katherine
(Dodd) Ressler and son, Kerry James. At the time of his death his family
lived in Palacios. |
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Josefa and her
husband Manuel Sanchez (March 6, 1881 - April 14, 1963) are buried in
Palacios Cemetery, Section F, Row
10. Their son Private Eliseo G. Sanchez (1913 - September 3, 1943),
United States Army was killed in Action. He served with the 172nd
Infantry Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division. Private Sanchez is buried at
Manila
American Cemetery, Fort Bonifacio,
Manila Philippines, Plot C, Row 1, Grave 50. At the time of his death
his family was living in Palacios and, in addition to his parents, he
was survived by is wife, Paula R. Sanchez, one sister and five brothers. |
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Maud is buried in
Palacios Cemetery, Section 4, Row 5. She and her husband Joseph J. Savage
(February 7, 1875 - March 14, 1942) are buried next to their son,
Aviation Student Houston Wilson Savage (December 1, 1921 - January 17,
1942), United States Army Air Forces who was killed when his training
plane crashed at Curtis Field near Brady, Texas.
At the time of his death his family was living in Palacios,
Texas. |
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Minnie and her husband
Arthur Everett Wickham (September 18, 1872 – October 17, 1930) are
buried at the
Palacios Cemetery,
Matagorda County, Texas, near their son Private First Class
Marvin Arthur Wickham (May 20, 1896 –
April 15, 1918) U. S. Army who died
of presumed Spanish Flu during WWI at
Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey shortly before he was to debark to
France. |
