World War I Veterans

Class Year	Name	Special Note
	Hardy, Edgar	Killed In Action in World War I
	Russell, Norman	Killed In Action in WWII, killed off the coast of Italy in early 1945 Did not attend MHS, but life-long resident
1940	Bailes, John Henry	Killed in Action in WWII on Nov. 3, 1944, on Leyette Island, Philippines, Army, 382nd Infantry Regiment, married to Ruth Powers of Trenton, brother of Edna Bailes King of Kingtown
1940	Thomason, Victor, Jr. "Sonny"	Killed In Action in WWII, as a paratrooper
1944	Remley, Joseph	Killed In Action in WWII, in North Africa
1949	Burns, Bateman	Killed In Action in Korean War, in a plane crash
1962	Charlton, Jerry	Killed In Action in Vietnam War 1967; From official records: Spec 4, Medical NCO, HHT, 1st Sqdn, 4th Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division, USARV; Start Tour: 4/5/1967, Incident Date: 9/5/1967; Casualty Date: 10/251967; Hau Nghia Province, South Vietnam; Vietnam Wall; Panel 28E, Line 065
1965	Boyce, Alton	1965 graduate of Tate High School; Killed in Action in Vietnam War 1968; From the official records: Home of Record: Turner, Arkansas; Date of Birth: July 3, 1947; Arkansas of the United States, Sergeant, E-5; MOS: 11B40, Infantryman, Unit: Co. #, 3rd BN, 47th Infantry, 9th INF. Div., USARV; Start Tour: 3/22/1968; Incident Date: 5/26/1968; Casualty Date: 5/26/1968; Ground Casualty by gun or small arms fire; Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam. Buried in Veterans Cemetery, Pittsburg, PA; Vietnam Wall: Panel 66W, Line 001.

World War I Veterans

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Class Year	Name	Special Notes
	Hardy, Edgar	Killed In Action in World War I
	Jarrett, William N.	Army
	R.R. Kemmer	Army, born 1890; Did not attend MHS, but life-long resident of Marvell; Kemmer's Gin
	Thomason, Victor, Jr. "Sonny"	Killed in Action in World War II as a paratrooper
	Wooten, W.B., Sr.	Did not attend MHS, but life-long resident of Marvell
	King, Fred Archie, Sr.	Army, Pvt., 108 MGun Bn, Born, 8-9-1893, died 7-16-1967, farmer, married to Edna Bailes, life-long resident of Kingtown, 3 children, Fred Jr., Henry, and Fern King Williams
	Bailes, Henry Andrew	Born 12-17-1880, died 9-30-1938, married Octa Manning, father of Edna Bailes King of Kingtown

	Gschwend, John J	Spanish-American War, Cuba; From Ellis Island to Arkansas to war and back to Ark.

World War II Veterans

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Class Year	Name	Special Note
1931	Turner, Berry Ellis "Buck"	Army; Military Police, transported German prisoners all over Europe; Did not attend MHS, but life-long resident
1934	Hauselman, Oscar	Army Air Corps, France; married Edith Hall in 1948; she had moved from TN to teach 2nd grade
1934	Hickingbottom, William J.	Army, Third Army (Patton's Army), European Theater, 287th Engineer Battalion
1935	Hickingbottom, John N.	Navy, Pacific Theater, Construction Battalion, (SeaBees), CM3
1935	Orme, Neely	Navy
1935	Remley, Eugene	Army
1938	Tschabold, Rachel (Yancey)	Army Air Corps Nurse, 1LT, New Guinea
1938	Lumpkin, Fred	Air Force, Staff Sergeant, flew over Channel on D-Day, saw the multitude of ships, six Bronze Stars, unit citation w/ 1 OLC, quit school in 8th grade at Good Luck, got his GED in 1968
1938	Orme, Lee Price	Navy, Seaman 1st Class, on medium landing craft in Asiatic-Pacific Theater
1938	Wooten, Lamar	Army, Supply Sergeant, France, Italy, Germany, and Alaska, Nat'l. Guard out of Lee Co., gone 4 years, 6 months; attended school in Lee Co. but life-long resident; Farmer
1939	Bass, Earl	WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam War
1939	Brown, Edwin	Army, Officer, European Theater, Battle of the Bulge with Gen. Patton; Erwin Motor Co.
1939	Foster, Marion
1939	Remley, Milton	Army Air Corps, crewmember of 1 of 6 planes out of 400 planes to return from the famous Ploesti oil fields bombing in Romania to deprive German of oil
1939	Remley, James S.
1939	Fuller, Ray	Navy, Seabees, South Pacific, joined in 1942; Farmer
1939	Turner, Kenneth B.	Army, Philippine Islands, Bronze Star
1939	Turner, Warren "Bo"	GMC, Navy
1940	Bailes, John Henry	Killed in Action in WWII on Nov. 3, 1944, on Leyette Island, Philippines, Army, 382nd Infantry Regiment, married to Ruth Powers of Trenton, brother of Edna Bailes King of Kingtown
1940	McKinney, Watt, Jr.
1940	Schaffhauser, Frank
1940	Thomason, Sonny	Killed In Action, paratrooper
1941	Crisp, Floyd	Air Force, North Atlantic, Stephenville, Newfoundland; Farmer
1941	Hosey, E.J.	Army, Scout w/ Patton's Third Army, went into Normandy after D-Day to replace fallen soldiers, Served in England, Germany, Francis, and Austria; Shawnee H.S. in Joiner; life-long resident; Farmer's Supply Co. He & N.R. were so mean, their mother started them in the 1st grade together
1941	Hosey, N.R., Jr.	Naval Air Force; Shawnee H.S. in Joiner; life-long resident, Farmer; He & E.J. were so mean, their mother started them in the 1st grade together
1941	Tschabold, Dorothy (Watkins)	Army Air Corps, S/SGT Airways Communications, Germany
1941	Turner, Jean (Wilkerson)	Navy Waves, PmM3c, wife of WWII vet Giley Wilkinson
1942	Cross, Lelon, Sr.	Army, Engineers, 1941-1945
1942	Griffin, Jr., Frank	Navy Pilot; Farmer
1942	Yancey, James	Navy Pilot, South Pacific; Farmer
1943	Davison, Lucian	Navy, quite school to join the Navy and finished his credits while in the Navy
1943	Dubach, Dave
1943	Thomason, Henry
1943	Tschabold, Bobby	Army, Infrantry, Germany
1943	Wilkinson, Giley	Navy; husband of WWII Vet. Jean Turner Wilkinson, Navy Wave, PhM3c; Farmer
1944	Hickingbottom, Marion	Navy, Pacific Theater
1944	Remley, Joseph	Killed In Action in North Africa
1944	Turner, John L.	Navy, Pacific Theater
1945	Hindsley, Harvey
1946	Roscopf, Charles
1949	Harpole, Sam	Returned after WWII to finish High School & Korea

	Bass, Calvin
	Brooks, Lynn	Army, Japan, Did not attend MHS, but life-long resident; Farmer
	Remley, E.P.
	Jarrett, Jr., Bill
	Dunavan, Nathaniel	Army -- Did not attend MHS, but life-long resident of Marvell; Marvell Postmaster
	Bass, Paula	Major, WAC Nurse
	Bass, Carl
	Puckett, E.H.	Army, served with General Patton
	Downie, Bruce	Navy
	Puckett, Orville	Navy
	Griffin, Brooks	Navy, Farmer
	Griffin, Buron	Navy, Farmer
	Whitaker, Billy	Army Air Corps
	Davis, Homer
	Stewart, Milton, Jr.	Marines, 1st Marine Division, Guadalcanal
	Hirsch, Max Adolph	Army, Master Sergeant; Farmer
	Garner, Paul	Did not attend MHS, but life-long resident; Grocery Business
	Reed, Floyd	North Africa, 3 years as a POW, Purple Heart, Did not attend MHS, but life-long resident
	Cavette, Don
	Sabatier, Albert
	Sabatier, Charles
	Sabatier, Rene
	Harpole, Alonzo	Pacific Theater
	Botorff, Riley	Army, paratrooper
	Fitts, R.P.
	Coins, Frank	WWII and Korea
	Howell, Bubba
	Wooten, W.B., Jr.	Navy, BM3 Destroyer
	Russell, Norman	Killed In Action, killed off the coast of Italy in early, 1945 Did not attend MHS, but life-long resident
	Blaine, Billy M.	Army, 3rd Infantry Division, awarded Bronze Star for capture of high ranking Germany officer with top secret documents. He was on the front line in numerous battles and beach heads. Attended GoodLuck School; Farmer
	Foree, Sr., Paul H.	Navy; Grocery Business
	Hollowell, Deane	Navy, Pacific Theater
	Wooten, Johnny, Sr.	Navy
	Chisnall, Robert, Jr.	Navy, ship blown up and sunk under him
	Overton, Bevy	Navy, Seabees, Phillipines
	Wiles, William Ed.	Navy, Seabees
	Mummel, Alex, Jr.	Army, Did not attend MHS, but life-long resident
	McKinney, Langdon
	McKinney, Wallace
	Higginbotham, John T.	Army, France, Germany, Belgium
	McDonald, Bill	Army, Glider Pilot, flew WACO CG4A. He made several invasion; Near the end of the war, he got lost and separated from his WWII unit and was surrounded by large number of Germans who surrendered to him, they told him where the lines were, and they all marched to the American troops. He lived a long time in Marvell. He died in his boat crappie fishing on Indian Bay in 1985.
	Puckett, T.O. (Orville)	Navy

Korean War Veterans

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Class Year	Name	Special Note
1939	Bass, Earl	Korean War, WWII, and Vietnam War
1944	Hirsch, Jr., Edmund	Army, Artillery, LT.
1947	Brown, Irwin Keith
1947	Hirsch, Alan
1948	Law, Gene
1949	Brown, Victor Leon
1949	Burns, Bateman	Killed In Action in plane crash
1949	Harpole, Same	Korean War, WWII, finished HS after WWII
1949	Paschal, Buddy	Korea - pre-war, Navy, PT boat, age 16
1949	Soo, George	Korea: 1950-51; Vietnam: 1968-1969; Active duty for over 20 years
1950	Canady, Billy Ray	Air Force
1950	Crisp, J.C.
1950	Fielder, Dalton "Tiny"
1950	Paschal, Bill	Army, survived Yalu river battle when million Chinese came across, Purple Heart, coldest winter ever
1951	Inman, Jesse	Navy, Nine months in North Korea, Wonson, North Korea
1951	Paschal, Roy	Air Force, placed on a hill in defending an attack, told to shoot anyone who comes over hill, "I have not blinked my eyes since."
1951	Shadden, Wayne	Navy, LST, 1st ship to move Korean POWs
1954	Paschal, Lloyd	Marines

	Darr, Junior
	Glass, Byron
	Haley, Jerry (Principal)	Did not attend MHS, but MHS Principal
	Howell, Billy	Marines, Bronze or Silver Star for bravery
	Lollar, Zack	Did not attend MHS, but life-long resident
	Russell, Clarence	Navy in Korean War and Vietnam War
	Sabatier, Raymond
	Smith, Raymond
	Weathers, Bob

Vietnam Veterans

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Class Year	Name	Special Notes
1939	Bass, Earl	Vietnam War, WWII, and Korean War
1949	Soo, George	Korean War: 1950-1951; Vietnam War: 1968-1969; Active duty for over 20 years
1955	Cooke, Jack	Army, Helicopter Pilot
1955	McKaskle, Billy	Army, artillery
1955	Taylor, Dell	Army, OCS, QMC, Infantry, Special Forces, 2.5 tours in Vietnam, France, Germany, Panama, LTC, 25 years
1956	Gschwend, David	Navy
1958	Harpole, Allen	Navy, Active duty for 20 years
1959	Ferguson, J.B.	Two tours, Army Helicopter Pilot, Air Medals 54 times, Distinguished Flying Cross
1959	Pierce Bill	Air Force -- Vietnam Service Medal, Nat'l Def. Service Medal, Air Force GCM, Small Army Expert Marksman
1959	Rodden, J.C.	Navy
1959	Sootoo, Henry	Three tours
1960	Edgington, Manford	Navy, Hospital Corpsman 1963-1967, NSA Hospital, Danang (China Beach) 65-66
1960	Ferguson, Lee	Navy, 4 years Bronze Star, Two Meritorious Service Medals, Army, 22 years
1960	Jackson, Butch	Navy
1960	Turner, Bill	Navy
1960	Wooten, W.C.	Navy, Three tours, 3 Air Medals, 226 combat missions, A3D Sky warriors Recon aircraft, Active duty 22 years,
1961	Clark, Charles	Vietnam, June 1967 to June 1968, with The Big Red One
1961	Ferguson, Mac	Army, Special Forces, Active duty 20 years
1961	Gschwend, Arvel "Hobo"	Vietnam era, Navy, submarine duty
1961	Story, Dennis	Army, Engineers
1962	Beard, J.W.	Amry
1962	Charlton, Jerry	Killed In Action on October 25, 1967
1962	Jelks, Kay (now Clark)	Vietnam era, 1964-1966, Army
1962	Ralph, Roy	Vietnam era, Air Force
1963	Davison, Ben Byrd	Navy
1963	Inman, Clarence	Navy, two tours in Vietnam, Cuba, USS Nimitz, 20 years
1963	Jackson, Gwynne	Vietnam era
1964	Cooper, Johnny	Army
1964	Cross, Lelon	Army, Neuro Medic
1964	Myers, Cary	Vietnam era, Army, 1966-68, Germany
1964	Pryor, Larry	Air Force, Vietnam era, 23 years (1965-1988) Master Sergeant, commissioned Captain, served in England, Germany, and various stateside locations,
1964	Steward, Lloyd	Air Force, 1964-1968, Two tours with 44th Airlift Wing, one tour in Japan
1964	Wooten, Bobby	Navy, Active duty 2 years, Reserves 4 yrs, next 24 years National Guard Assault Craft Div. with 3 tours in Vietnam on the rivers
1965	Bloesch, Richard	Navy
1965	Heidelberger, Bill	Army, Helicopter Pilot
1965	King, Michael	Navy
1965	Taylor, David	Army, AMC, Vietnam, Germany, Egypt, COL, 25 years
1966	Chisnal, Bob	Army
1966	Ferguson, Jerry	Army
1966	Foree, Bonner	Vietnam era, Air Force
1966	Guest, James
1966	Higginbotham, Alan	Air Force
1966	Kemmer, Bob
1966	McGill, John	Vietnam era, Retired from Air Force and joined the Army
1967	Blaine, Danny	Navy, 3 tours in Vietnam
1967	Cross, Eddie	Army, Aviation Tech
1967	Dunavan, Chip	Vietnam era, Marines
1967	George, Jerry
1967	Guest, Clarence	Purple Heart
1967	Hardy, Melvin	Vietnam era, Army
1967	Jarrett, III, Bill	His father is a WWII veteran
1967	Patterson, Nathan	Vietnam era, NAS, Cherry Point, NC, NAS San Juan, PR, NAS, Key West, FL, was a plane captain for F4-Phantoms
1967	Puckett, Gene	Air Force, 1968-1974, Utapao AB, Thailand from 1971 to 1972 as B-52 Bomber crew chief; Army National Guard 1976-1982, 1985-1997; total service time of 24 years, 2 months, 28 days
1967	Tom Reed
1967	Smith, Lonnie
1968	Boyce, Alton	Killed in Action, Tate High School graduate, US Army, Infantry
1968	Cross, Wayne	Army, Infantry
1968	Ferguson, James Butch	Army, 101st ABN Div., Purple Heart
1968	Hosey, Glenn	Vietnam era, Army, Active duty 20 years
1968	Wooten, Gerald	Navy, 3 tours in Vietnam
1969	Wallace, Roger Dale	Vietnam era, Army
1970	Ferguson, George Pete	Vietnam era, served in Korea
1971	Cutlip, Donald	Vietnam era, Prum, Germany
1971	Cutlip, Darrell	Army, 560th MP Company, Pleiku-Natrang, Vietnam, 1972-1973, Member of multi-national Peace Keeping Team, one of the last 850 American GI's to leave Vietnam
1971	Hardy, Phillip	Vietnam era, Army
1971	Lumpkin, Larry	Vietnam era


	Russell, Clarence	Navy, Korean War and Vietnam War
	Hollowell, Alan	Vietnam era, Marines, Japan

Operation Desert Storm

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Class Year	Name	Special Note
1964	Wooten, Bobby	Vietnam War and Desert Storm
1967	Story, Ben	Desert Storm, 3.5 years of active duty and 24.5 years reserve duty

Operation Iraqi Freedom

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Class Year	Name	Special Note
1972	Wooten, Otis	Army, Youngest of the 4 Wooten brothers to serve

	Batchelor, Enoch	Army, Cpl, Sniper

Active Duty

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Class Year	Name	Special Note
1947	Puckett, Clellor	Army, Korea in 1947-1948
1948	Hill, Alton	Navy, Got off the bus in Helena after their senior trip, joined the Navy, and went straight to boot camp
1948	Hill, Clarence W.	Army, Fort Chaffee
1948	King, Billy B.	Navy
1948	Norton, Elmer	Navy, Got off the bus in Helena after their senior trip, joined the Navy, and went straight to book camp
1948	Oxner, Madison	Army
1948	Schaffhauser, Billy	Army
1948	Wallace, Erwin	1953 to 1956
1948	Windisch, David	Air Force
1951	Cooke, Tom	Army, Signal Corps, August 1956 to August 1957
1951	Watkins, Roland	Navy
1952	Wiles, Johnny	Navy
1953	Cooke, Sam	Army, Artillery
1953	Hill, James
1953	King, Kinny N.	Marines, Navy Reserve
1953	King, Roy E.	Marines
1953	Littleton, Jimmy
1953	Patterson, Gene	Army, 1955 - 1957, Stationed in Okinawa, Japan where he played football for the Army team
1954	Steiner, Bobby	Army, Panama
1954	Turner, Tommy	Navy, 1958 -1961
1955	Asbury, Jerry Ray	Marines, 1956 - 1958
1955	Mummel, Joyce Marie (Haws)	Army, Medic 1958-1960, Germany
1955	Turner, Bob	Navy, Sept, 1959 - Dec, 1963
1955	Taylor, Dell	Army, OCS, Infantry, Special Forces, 2.5 years in Vietnam, LTC
1955	Watkins, Marshall	Navy
1955	Watts, Stanley
1956	Bonner, Monty Joe	Marines
1956	Bottorff, Roy	Navy
1956	Clark, Kenneth	Marines
1956	Gschwend, David	Navy, Active duty 34 years, 11 months, 29 days
1956	Schell, Simon "Boopie"	Air Force
1956	Windisch, Bobby	Army, 1960 - 1962
1957	Bonner, Darrell	Navy
1958	Sims, Gary	Navy
1958	Story, Jerry	Air Force
1960	Turner, Bill	Navy, Pilot, Feb 1965 - Sept, 1972
1961	Bryant, Billy Wayne	Air Force
1961	George, James Perry	Navy
1961	Jackson, Butch	Navy
1962	Roy, James Ralph, Jr.	Air Force, 1962-1970
1965	Taylor, David	Army, QMC, Vietnam, COL
1968	Batchelor, Ronnie	Army
1968	Cross, Lane	Army, Korea
1970	Ferguson, George "Pete"	Army, Korea
1972	Ferguson, Gary "Beau"	Air Force, Youngest of 7 Ferguson brother to serve, F-15 Crew Chief at Clarke AFB, Philippines
1974	Holloway, Wendell	Navy
1974	Rogers, Tony	Navy, 20 years
1976	Lollar, Jeff	Presently serving In Kosova
1987	Wallace, Barry	Navy

	Gschwend, Joe	Navy and Army
	Davison, Sib	Navy
	Davison, Jay	Navy
	Davison, Lucian	Navy, 20 years, 1943-1963
	Cope, Ralph	Army
	Hardy, John Carl	Army
	Hardy, Edgar	Navy
1950	Haws, Redmon F., II	Air Force, Korea
	Wooten, Malcolm	Army, Fort Leonard Wood, MO

Reserve and National Guard
("They also serve who stand ready and wait.")

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Class Year	Name	Special Note
1957	Sims, Warren	National Guard - Air Force
1957	Storey, Ronald	National Guard - Army
1960	Moore, Alice (Short)	National Guard - Army - Mississippi, 134th Combat Support Hospital, Jackson, MS, Spec6
1967	Puckett, Gene	National Guard - Army - 1974-1997
1967	Story, Ben	Army Reserve - 1971-1999 - Desert Storm, 3.5 years active duty & 24.5 years reserve
1968	Hindsley, Harry	National Guard
1969	Bartlett, Stanley	National Guard, 1969-1976