VENABLE, Gary Lee

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Truck Driver
• Reference Number: VENA.G001
• _FGRAVE: 36867106
• Funeral: Summers-Kistler Funeral Home, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois

Notes:

Herald & Review (Decatur, IL) - May 30, 2001

Deceased Name: Venable

60, Clay City, truck driver, died Monday (May 28, 2001).

Services: 1 p.m. Thursday, Summers-Kistler Funeral Home, Clay City.

Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, with 7 p.m. Masonic rites.

Burial: Clay City Cemetery.

Memorials: Clay City First Baptist Church.

Buried:
Plot: 15 1/2 Franklin Add. Space 4

Gary married CAILTEUX, D.J. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: VENA.E002
• _FGRAVE: 36681747
• Military Service: World War II, Private First Class, Company A, 724th Military Police Battalion, United States Army

Notes:

Military Service:
Entered active service as a draftee on March 22, 1945 at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Selected for duty with the Military Police, completed basic training and qualified in the military occupational specialty of rifleman (mos 745). Departed the Continental U.S. on September 14, 1945 bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations. Assigned to and served with Company A, 724th Military Police Battalion. Honorably discharged as a Private First Class on January 5, 1946 at the Separation Center, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. Earned the Meritorious Unit Plaque, Good Conduct Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and The WWII Victory Medal.

This information has been posted on the National World War II Memorial's Registry of Remembrances website by Robert Medley Gatewood. It is entered here with his permission.

Source: https://wwiiregistry.abmc.gov/honoree-plaque/?honoree_id=2312425

Buried:
15 1/2 Franklin Add. Grave 3

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: VENA.E003
• _FGRAVE: 29233305
• Military Service: World War I, Saddler, Battery E, 12th Field Artillery Regiment

Edward married Van Boden, Wilhelmina M.. Wilhelmina was born on 28 Aug 1894; died on 21 Apr 1983; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Flora, Clay County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: VANB.W002
• _FGRAVE: 34870389