 World War II Sgt. Emmett Woodrow McGehee
Texas Cavalry (Motorized) He was a
Army Sergeant, Service Number 6292577, KIA
He is in
the book "Men and Women in the armed
froces from Grayson county" .
I paraphrase; Emmett W McGehee was the son of Mrs Nancy McGehee of Collinsville. His wife was the former Ruth Savage. He lived and went to school in Collinsville, Grayson County, Texas. He entered the 'motorized cavalry' in Oct 1942. He trained at Ft Bliss, Camp Adair in Arizona and Camp Shelby in Miss. He was a gunner instructor. He went overseas in October of 1944. He had been in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France and Scotland. And he was killed in action in Germany. 4 Mar 1945. He is buried in West Hill in Sherman, Grayson County, Texas. Read his obituary on the West Hill page. He was the first of two Grayson County soldiers to return for burial in the US.  Fort Worth Star-Telegram Fri, Nov 21, 1947 Collinsville, Texas Friday, Nov. 21 1947 SGT. EMMETT McGEHEE'S BODY HOME FROM GERMANY: REBURIAL AT ETHEL SUNDAY, NOV. 23 Funeral services for Sgt. Emmett Woodrow McGehee, 26, of Collinsville, route 1, the first of Grayson county's World War II dead to be returned to the states for reburial, will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Ethel Baptist church, east of Collinsville. Sergeant McGehee's body arrived in Sherman this week from overseas and is being held at the John C. Dannel Funeral Home, Sherman, until funeral services. The Rev. Charles W. Estes, pastor of the Whitesboro Presbyterian church, will officiate, assisted by Rev. Clyde Beck, Baptist minister of Sherman. Special music will be furnished by the Ethel quartet. The body will be brought to Sherman for burial in the Memorial Plat in West Hill cemetery, which was set aside by the City of Sherman. It will be the first body of a returned Wold War II veteran to be buried in the plat. Military services at the graveside will be conducted by the Fred Halden Owen's America Legion Post No. 623 of Collinsville. Sergeant McGehee was killed in action Sunday, March 4, 1945 at Hockenbroich, Germany, when he was a member of the cavalry. He was a member of the fourth armored reconnaissance division of the Third Army under General George Patton and had just crossed the Rhine River when he was killed by a shell from a tank destroyer gun. He was born September 13, 1918, at his late home on Route 1, Collinsville. He was a son of the late Capt. Edward McGehee and Mrs. Nancy Ann McGehee of Collinsville and 807 East College, Sherman. He attended Collinsville school. He enlisted in military service on Oct. 7, 1938, at Dallas and after two years service was honorably discharged Jan. 7, 1941, at Fort Sam Houston. On Nov. 2, 1942 he re-enlisted at Dallas. He trained at Camp Shelby, Miss. before going overseas to the European theater June 2, 1944. He was married to Miss Ruby Savage of Whitesboro in August 1943. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Nancy Ann McGehee; one son, Leroy McGehee of Whitesboro; two brothers, Coyt McGehee of Grand Prairie and Clifford McGehee of Route 1, Collinsville and one sister, Mrs. Wayne E. Atkins of Sherman. Grayson
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