Military Veterans

Floyd Eugene Arey was a Private First Class in the U.S. Marines.  He was killed 24 June 1944, at the age of 19 years, on Saipan Island in the Marianna Islands.

At age 17, Floyd tried three times to enlist in the Marines.  He was not accepted because of deafness in one ear.  His Mother finally signed papers saying he was 18, thus allowing him to enlist in 1943.

After boot camp, he went to Hawaii for six weeks.  While there, he meet a man from Homewood, KS.  However, they were in different divisions.  That man later told Julie (his mother)that Floyd’s division had been sent to Saipan Island to operate flame-throwers.  Flame throwers were used to rout the Japanese soldiers out of caves.  Floyd was on the island two days before he was shot and killed in a cane field.  He was buried there on Saipan Island.

In 1948, after the war was over, Julia had the U. S. military send his body to her home in Ottawa, KS, after being buried on the island for four years.  She kept the casket with his remains in it in her home for three or four days.  Then services were held and he was permanently buried at Highland Cemetery in Ottawa.

The following is a copy of an article from the El Dorado newspapers on October 23, 1945, listing servicemen killed in World War II.  His name is one on the list.

              148 Butler County Men Pay Supreme Sacrifice in War

                                    An El Dorado, KS Publication

A total of 148 Butler County men made the supreme sacrifice in the Second World War, according to a careful check of all public reports available.  Of this number, 95 resided in the El Dorado area and 53 in the community adjacent to Augusta.

The list includes men who have died in all theaters of war and in training camps in the United States.  Most of them lost their lives on battlefields, only a few meeting with fatal accidents or dying from some other cause.  Several men also have been reported missing in action.  No attempt has been made to list them here.

The Gold Stars follow:

Lloyd Victor Anderson

Floyd Eugene Arey

Doleron T. Allen

Wimer Allbright

Claude Applegate

Frank H. Baldwin

Wilbur C. Barrett

Walter Barnhill

Ray Barton, Jr.

Lee C. Belt

Charles Bennewitz

Herschel Brown

James J. Binter

Dale Andrew Blake

Richard N. Brown

W. Harry Brown

Charles E. Brumback

Byrus L. Barber

Stanley Batdorf

Lloyd Bettis

James Blake

Melvin Craig

Thomas V. Church

Edward A. Cole

Lester Cornelson

Harold Jack Courtney

Morris A. Cartee

Quentin B. Chance

Clarence M. Collins

Melvin Craig

Jack Daniels

James Durham

Calvin Walter Dale

Bill Davidson

Lew Davidson

Paul M. DeLong

Neal R. Dill

James A. Doles

Isaac Edward Essex

James Milton Fitzwater

William J. Fleming

Junior E. Flint

Blaine R. Girod

Robert Goodson

Frank Gonzales

 Edmon Gordon

Harold L. Green

Harold Wayne Gruver

Dale Guffin

James Guyot

Jesus Gonzales

Martin Patrick Green

Clark Walford Harader

Hobert S. Hull

Warren Harrill

Harold Humboldt

Harold L. Hilton

Wayne C. Hathaway

George Howrey

Joseph Donald Harris

Jack Hearell

William J. Henry

Howard Albert Hibbler

Lester D. Hankins

Loren Hull

Ralph C. Hutchens

Thomas Holladay

Bryce Jackson

Guy Jackson

Kenneth Jackson

Leroy Judson

Calvin Leslie Jacoby

Dale E. Johnson

John Leslie Jones

Earl Kennedy

Walter William Kirkman

Donald King

Billy G. Lewis

Raymond Harvey Lemasters

William Maurice Lipscomb

Lewis List

Walter W. Lister

Jodie Lowrance

Norman B. Lusk

Richard P. Lickliter

A. M. Lowe

Nelson McElroy

Lynn Mahannah

Martin Mahannah

Maurice L. Mathews

Robert L. Martin

Lloyd Mathes

Thomas E. Miller

David W. Main, Jr.

Kenneth Marshall

James W. Marsh

Robert Keith Mattix

Curtis Miller

O. W. Miller

Edgar E. G. Minter

Harry F. Moore, Jr.

James W. McCollum

C--- Newby

Joseph W. Nicholas

Grayson Naden

Hugh Obee

Lee W. Ow, Jr.

Paul E. Perry

Earl Punk

Gerald Pirtle

Jack M. Poe

Bernard D. Parkins

Jerry Paul

Albert Payton

Cleo Roy Raley

Charles Wayne Reed

Jimmie F. Rodden

Bill Rosenberry

Richard O. Scott

Frank Sepulveda

Robert M. Shook

Glenn F. Singleton

Glen Smith

Richard L. Strickland

Claude Savage

Everett Jack Schooling

M. D. Scott

Richard Scott

Jack Seal

Charles Shannon

Frank J. Stinson

Kenneth Stroud

Bob Surface

George A. Tanner

Wendell T. A. Thompson

Cleo T. Tidball

Gerold D. Tidball

Howard Albert Tidball

Robert Eldon Typer

Edward G. Thrasher

O. V. Vaughn

Virgil F. Waldorf

Gilbert Widwick

James Woods

Gilbert Thomas Wilmarth

Charles Wilson

Clarence Edward Wood

Richard G. Yelley

Private First Class

World War II—1943 - 1944

Private Redburn was KIA on Saipan 24 June 1944

See biography, this section.

Second Corps; Killed on Saipan.