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LT. CLARK ROSS, JR.
(1921-2003)
First Lieutenant
Army Air Corps
United States Army
1942-1951

Clark Ross, Jr. graduated from Marshall High School in 1938 and went immediately to Texas A&M where he entered the engineering program. At that time the school was an all military school. When he was in his senior year, the U.S. Army came to the Aggie campus and made the seniors an offer that was difficult to pass up, so in May, 1942, Clark Ross enlisted in the then called Army Air Corp. He received his flight training at Kelly Field, Coleman Army Air Base, Goodfellow Field at San Angelo and Brooks Field. While in flight training at Goodfellow Field in San Angelo, Lt. Ross met and immediately fell in love with Charlotte Schrier, daughter of Mrs. George Howard Hanks of San Angelo. They were married in San Antonio, Texas, January 14, 1943 on the same day that Lt. Ross received his wings and commission from Brooks Field. Such was not unusual during the war years. It wasn’t long afterwards that he was piloting his B-17 non-stop from Greenland to England by way of Scotland.

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MEMORIAL DAY--MASTER SERGEANT EDWARD BOYD, JR.

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:56:51 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

MASTER SERGEANT EDWARD H. BOYD, JR.
(1930-1987)
Special Agent, OIG
United States Air Force
1948-1968

Ed was a “chosen” infant. At the age of six months he was adopted by Ed Sr. and Stella Mae Boyd. When he was six years old, his parents returned from Warrensburg, Missouri to Marshall, where he was raised. Ed attended public schools in Marshall and graduated from MHS in ’47. He was a left-handed, right half-back on Coach Chester Weidman’s T-formation 1946 football team (record 8-1-1). I remember trying to tackle him in practice---he was very fast and raised his knees almost to his belt buckle when he ran---making it difficult to get hold of him.

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MEMORIAL DAY--MAJOR GARY EASTON

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:55:40 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

MAJOR GARY E. EASTON
(1939-2000)
Pilot
United States Air Force
1962-1982

Gary Easton was born in Idaho Falls, and married his college sweetheart, Karen Moore from Rock Valley, Iowa in 1957. He graduated from Morningside College in Sioux City, where he majored in music and minored in literature---a strange combination for a future warrior. He played the trumpet with the symphony and marching bands before beginning his USAF career.

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MEMORIAL DAY--SERGEANT MACK HOPKINS

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:52:46 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

SERGEANT MACK HOPKINS
(1917-1996)
Air Corps
United States Army
1942-1945

Mack Hopkins, best known around Harrison County for his Tuskegee Airman service in World War II, was born the son of Professor and Mrs. McHenry Hopkins in November of 1917. His parents lived on campus at Wiley College. Mack graduated from Central High School in Marshall in 1937, and from Wiley College in 1941. While at Wiley, where he played football, he met his wife to be, Pauline A. Lewis, to whom he was married until her death in 1990.

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MEMORIAL DAY--TECHNICAL SERGEANT PERRY BONNER

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:51:39 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

TECHNICAL SERGEANT PERRY BONNER
(1923-2005)
Infantry
United States Army
1940-1945

As best we can determine, Perry Bonner was the most decorated military hero of the 20th Century from Harrison County, and we have had a lot of heroes from around here. When he was discharged from the Army with 100% disability from his severe wounds in late 1945, after spending months in the 96th General Hospital in England and Brooks Army Hospital in Texas, Perry was but 21 years old. He had earned three (3) Silver Stars, five (5) Bronze Stars, and four (4) Purple Hearts---which we believe to be just one short of the total number of combat medals earned by the most decorated Soldier of World War II, Audie Murphy.

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MEMORIAL DAY--TECH. SERGEANT OLIVER ZELL ROGERS

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:50:25 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

TECHNICAL SERGEANT OLIVER ZELL ROGERS
(1921-1944)
Infantry
United States Army
1942-1944

Oliver Zell Rogers, known to family and friends as “Zell”, was one of three children born to Cole and Ollie Belle Rogers in the community of Gum Springs near Hallsville. Zell attended school in Hallsville, where he was an outstanding football player in High School. He was a Guard on the Bobcats Championship team of 1939. He played both ways (offense and defense) as was common for good players in those days. His team was neither scored on nor defeated in district play that year as they won Hallsville’s first district championship. They also won bi-district without the opponent scoring on them.

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MEMORIAL DAY--TECH. SERGEANT ROBERT PRESSLER

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:48:14 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

TECHNICAL SERGEANT ROBERT C. PRESSLER
(1920-2002)
Cavalry
United States Army
1940-1944

Robert Clifton Pressler was born in Jan. 1920 to Joe Morrison Pressler and Mabel Sullivan Pressler in Jacksonville, Texas. He graduated from Marshall High School in 1937, and entered the Army of the United States in November 1940 as part of the 36th Infantry Division of the Texas National Guard when it was mobilized for World War II. Bobby was initially stationed at Camp Bowie near Brownwood, Texas. He participated in the famed Louisiana Maneuvers (moving up and down Western Louisiana and Eastern Texas with several Divisions.)

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MEMORIAL DAY--LIEUTENANT JACK M. PRESSLER

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:47:48 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

LIEUTENANT JACK M. PRESSLER
(1921-1978)
Submarine Forces
United States Navy
1939-1956

Jack was the middle child of Joe and Mabel Pressler of Marshall. The story of his older brother Bobby is also on this page. Jack graduated from Marshall High School in 1938 and joined the Navy as an Apprentice Seaman in 1940. He served on the Destroyer USS Alywin. He applied and was accepted to the Naval Academy Prep School in Norfolk for an eight month course. From there he took the competitive exams as an enlisted man for an appointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and was one of the few dozen accepted from the ranks. Because of the war, the commissioning cycle at the Naval Academy was cut from four to three years, so Jack graduated in the class of 1944 and was commissioned an Ensign in the Submarine Corps.

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MEMORIAL DAY--LIEUTENANT WALTER T. CAVEN

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:46:46 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

LIEUTENANT WALTER T. CAVEN
(1920-2007)
Infantry
United States Army
1943-1945

Walter Caven was born in Marshall to William and Ella Sedberry Caven in 1920. He graduated from Marshall High School in 1937, where he was the President of the Senior Class and a member of the National Honor Society. He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 1941 and enrolled in Law School there. However, he deferred completion of Law School and joined the Army in 1943, and was selected to attend Infantry Officer Candidate School at Ft. Benning, Georgia where he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry. Walter was 6’4” tall, and a good looking, good natured, intelligent young man with natural leadership abilities.

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MEMORIAL DAY--LT. ROMEO WILLIAMS

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:46:33 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

LIEUTENANT ROMEO WILLIAMS
(1919-1960)
Air Corps
United States Army
1942-1945

Romeo Williams was the second of three sons born to Josie and Milton Williams, Sr. in Marshall. Milton Williams and his brother shared a home in South Marshall on Lothrop. Romeo began grade school in 1925, graduated from Pemberton High School in 1936, and attended Prairie View A&M for a year before returning to Marshall where he finished his Bachelor of Science degree at Bishop College in May of 1941---seven months before World War II began. In High School, he was a cheerful and well liked young man; played the saxophone in the band and was a member of the baseball and football teams.

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MEMORIAL DAY--LT. COLONEL ROBERT B. YATES

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:45:51 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROBERT B. YATES
(1908-1984)
Corps of Engineers
United States Army
1940-1945

Lt. Colonel Robert Brooks Yates – bricklayer, soldier, military and civic leader, construction company owner, and hero was a native Marshallite. He married Vera Dickinson on January 30, 1927. Col. Yates was better known around town as Colonel, Bob, or “Bull” by his close friends. He grew up on West Houston St., back when you walked to town or rode the streetcars. Attended the Marshall Public Schools until the eighth grade, at which time he dropped out and started laying brick. Just like later in life, he fought and succeeded in becoming the very best at his trade, a bricklayer. In fact so good and so fast, the contractor fired all but him and Babe Hines while building the Paramount Theater. The two laid a lot of brick in that building.

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MEMORIAL DAY--COLONEL ALBERT E. BINOTTI

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:45:45 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

COLONEL ALBERT E. BINOTTI
(1921-2003)
Field Artillery
United States Army
1940-1946
Texas National Guard
1947-1978

Albert Edward Binotti was the only boy of four children of Al and Sarah Fisher Binotti. His father came to the United States before he was born, as an immigrant from Turin, Italy through Ellis Island in New York. Young Albert was to go back to fight in World War II in Italy many years later. Born and raised in Marshall, Albert lived most of his early life in the 600 block of East Grand Ave.

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MEMORIAL DAY--COLONEL RAY C. ALLEN

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:41:03 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

COLONEL RAY C. ALLEN
(1900-2001)
Infantry
United States Army
1940-1946

Ray C. Allen was born in Timpson, Texas and moved to Marshall as a youngster, where he graduated from Marshall High School with the class of 1918. He married Lenora Rosborough of Marshall in 1923. They were married for 73 years, until her death in 1996. They had four children, all girls: Jane, Carolyn, Norma Rae, and Mary Ann, spaced over 14 years. Norma Rae died before her father, in 1997.

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MEMORIAL DAY--COLONEL JAMES H. AMMERMAN

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:41:01 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

COLONEL JAMES H. AMMERMAN
(1927-1985)
Infantry
United States Army
1945-1948, 1950-1952
U.S. Army Reserve
1948-1950, 1952-1974

James H. Ammerman was born in Wewoka, Oklahoma in 1927. Shortly after his eighteenth birthday and after having completed a semester of college at Delmar Junior College in Corpus Christi, Texas, Jim enlisted as an infantryman in the United States Army on December 8, 1945. He was single with one year of college. His civilian occupation was working in construction. His military papers show that his enlistment was with the Hawaiian Department for three years. However, after having received his basic infantry training, he was accepted into Officer’s Candidate School in Ft. Benning, Georgia and graduated from there as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry.

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MEMORIAL DAY--CAPTAIN CARY ABNEY

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:33:35 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

CAPTAIN CARY ABNEY
(1910-1944)
Field Artillery
United States Army
1941-1944

Cary Abney III was the son of Cary M. and Anna Josephine Abney, who lived about five miles south of Waskom in Harrison County when young Cary was born in April of 1910. When young Cary’s grandfather died, his father dropped the Jr. from his name, and somehow young Cary III began to be known as Cary Jr. From this point on, when I write of Cary Abney it is about Cary III---this is his story. He was schooled in Marshall, and graduated from Texas A&M in 1934 with a reserve commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery.

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MEMORIAL DAY--COL. JAMES LEWIS

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:31:21 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

COLONEL JAMES W. LEWIS
(1928-1965)
Pilot
United States Air Force
1946-49, 1955-65

James Lewis was born in Starkville, Mississippi in 1928. He enlisted in the Air Force for three years when he was 18 years old, before starting college at North Texas State in 1950. In 1952, while still a student, he married Barbara Gillihan, who had graduated from Texas State College for Women, in Denton. In 1954 Jim received his Bachelor’s Degree, his first child (a son) was born, and he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the USAF reserve.

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MEMORIAL DAY--SGT. JACK BALDWIN

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:31:00 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

SERGEANT (CORPSMAN) JACK BALDWIN
(1923-1946)
Medical Corps
United States Army
1942-1946

Jack B. Baldwin was one of three sons of Lucille Jones Baldwin and Dr. J. B. Baldwin (pictured above) of Lower Port Caddo Road in Marshall, Texas. He was born June 9, 1923 and graduated from Marshall High School. He had two brothers, Philip (deceased) and Scott, and one sister, Mary Jane (Mrs. Jack Sanders).

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MEMORIAL DAY--LT. JOHN BALDWIN

Posted on: 2009-05-25 06:30:45 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

LIEUTENANT JOHN B. BALDWIN
(1887-1952)
Medical Corps
United States Army
and
British Army
1917-1919

John B. Baldwin was born in Harrison County, near Caddo Lake in March, 1887; the son of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Baldwin, who were also natives of Harrison County. Dr. Ben Baldwin, born in Sept. 1847, ran away from home and joined the Confederate Army.

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Texas is Number One Exporting State for 7th Consecutive Year

Posted on: 2009-02-12 20:30:03 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

February 12, 2009

AUSTIN – The U.S. Department of Commerce has named Texas the top exporting state in the nation for the seventh year in a row based on 2008 export data. Texas’ exports increased more than 14 percent over the last year, totaling $192.14 billion, approximately $23.92 billion more than 2007.

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NOON OPTIMIST CLUB OF MARSHALL

Posted on: 2009-02-09 18:07:56 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]

SUBMITTED BY: Lily F. Whitis PHONE 903-938-5191 ext 241

TIME, DAY, DATE AND PLACE OF MEETING:

Noon, Wednesday, February 4, 2008 at Golden Corral located on U.S. Hwy. 59 South, Marshall, Texas

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