Stanley, Cyrus Nelson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: STAN.C036
• _FGRAVE: 26395784
• Military Service: World War II, Technician Fourth Grade, United States Army

Notes:

Herald & Review (Decatur, IL) - January 16, 1999

Deceased Name: Stanley

86, Ingraham, farmer, died Friday (Jan. 15, 1999).

Services: 10 a.m. Monday, Ingraham Christian Church.

Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Neal Funeral Home,

Louisville, and one hour before services Monday, in the church.

Burial: Ingraham Cemetery.

Memorials: Ingraham Christian Church.

Military Service:
With 6 months, 18 days prior service in the Enlisted Reserve Corps, entered active service as a draftee on March 2, 1942 at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Completed basic training, selected for duty with the Ordnance Corps, attended the Sheet Metal Workers Service School at Stockton, California, and qualified in the military occupational specialty of that trade (MOS 201). Departed the Continental U.S. on February 26, 1943 bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations. Assigned to and served with the 3415th Ordnance Company, 69th Ordnance Battalion, in the southern Philippine Islands and Luzon Campaigns. Honorably discharged as a Technician Fourth Grade on December 15, 1945 at the Separation Center, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. Earned The Good Conduct Medal, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with 2 bronze battle stars, WWII Victory Medal, and The Philippine Liberation Medal.

Source: https://wwiiregistry.abmc.gov/honoree-plaque/?honoree_id=2280740

Cyrus married Williams, Hazel Mae on 24 Jan 1947 in Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky. Hazel (daughter of Williams, Nathan Addison and Kinsey, Mamie M.) was born on 15 May 1919 in Clay County, Illinois; died on 1 Feb 2018 in Heartland Christian Village, Neoga, Cumberland County, Illinois; was buried on 2 Feb 2018 in Ingraham Cemetery, Ingraham, Clay County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Stanley, R.
2. Stanley, S.
3. Stanley, Jack Nelson was born in 1950; died in 1960; was buried in Ingraham Cemetery, Ingraham, Clay County, Illinois.