Birth 25OCT46 Rank SA Date of Death 01NOV66 P. of birth   Service Navy Place Gia Dinh, S. Vietnam Town of Record Tacoma Unit DETA MNSQDN11, NAVADVGRU Death Code Hostile Died Missing; Ground Casualty; Other Explosive Device Hometown   service # 3909889 Panel 12EAST - 07 married Single Link MRFA Medals   Comment Tour Date   Cemetery

    Augustine LOPEZ Jr.

Birth 10OCT46 Rank LCPL Date of Death 2NOV66 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record El Paso TX Unit K Co, 3rd Bn, 4th MAR, 3rd Div Death Code Hostile, died of wounds; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service #   Local Seattle married single Panel 12EAST - 11 Medals   Tour Date Comment   Cemetery

    Harry D. LUND

Birth 17DEC47 Rank PFC Date of Death 05NOV66 P. of birth   Service Army Place S. Vietnam Town of Record Chehalis Unit 25th Inf Div, A Co, 2nd Bn, 27th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Hometown   service # 19819427 Panel 12EAST - 28 married Single Link kolchak.org and Corpsman Medals   Tour Date 14FEB66 Comment   Cemetery Arlington National Cem.

2nd Casualty, Chehalis Youth Dies In Viet Nam Fighting
    Another Chehalin was listed Tuesday as Lewis County's second casualty of the Viet Nam War.
    Killed in action while serving in the 25th Infantry Division in Viet Nam was PFC Harry Dwight Lund, 18-year-old son of John Lund, 1019 State St., Chehalis.
    The father said it was recovered last Sunday. Defense department officials said the soldier was killed by flying fragments of a bomb or shell in a combat action.
    Lund was born 17 Dec 1947, at Amarillo TX. He had been a resident of Chehalis for the past four years. He attended W. F. West high school until he enlisted in the U.S. Army in January 1965. The soldier received his military training at Fort Leonard Wood MO and is Texas.
    A month ago, the soldier had telephoned his father from Saigon while on rest and recuperation from combat action.
    In addition to the father, survivors include a brother, John, Amarillo TX; a stepbrother, David Buser, Chehalis; a grandmother, Anna Lund, Carrington ND; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Jennings, Hadley TX.
    Funeral services are pending but will be held at Arlington National Cemetery, according to the son's wishes, the father said.
    PFC Lund is the second Chehalin to die in the Viet Nam war this year. The first casualty was Chief Warrant Officer Rober Dowling, 27, CWO Dowling, an Army helicopter pilot, was killed in action last 12 Jan (1966 )> (unknown newspaper, Centralia and Chehalis WA, )submitted by Jim Smiley, Lewis County Veterans Museum.

    William Arthur DERKSEMA

Birth 25MAR47 Rank PFC Date of Death 09NOV66 P. of birth Seattle Service Marines Place Quang Nam, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit Co K, 3/9th Mar, 3rd Mar Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Other Explosive Device Hometown   service # 2197284 Panel 12EAST - 46 married Single Enlisted 01NOV65 Medals   Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery Evergreen-Washelli, Seattle WA Bainbridge High School, Bainbridge Island WA, Senior - Class of 1965: Entered BHS September '62; Football 2,3,4; Track 2,3,4; All-school Play 2,3; Letterman's Club 3, 4; Boys' Club 2,3,4; Thespians 3,4. "I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have lived and loved." ... Schiller

Pfc. William A. Derksema Funeral services for Marine Pfc. William A. Derksema, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin C. Derkesema, 6800 35th Av. N. W. are being arranged at the Bonney-Watson Broadway Funeral Home. Derksema yesterday was reported killed in action in Viet-Nam. Derksema, 19, was born in Seattle and attended West Woodland Elementary School, Monroe Junior High School and Bainbride High School, where he was a letterman in track and football. After graduation in 1965, he went to work for The Boeing Co. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in November and reported for duty in March. Derksema had been in Viet-Nam three weeks when he was killed. As a boy Derksema had been a Times newspaperboy. Survivors besides his parents include two brothers, John, 17, and Martin, 15; a sister, Kathleen, 12; a grandfather, Arthur A. McMullen, Bremerton, and a great-grandmother, Mrs. Clara Clementz, Bremerton. The senior Derksema is an electrical engineer for the Bonneville Power Administration. (Evergreen-Washelli, Seattle WA - Obituary Records)

    John Michael RIORDAN

Birth 01JAN44 Rank AMS3 Date of Death 10NOV66 P. of birth   Service Navy (Reserve) Place N. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit Air Antisubmarine VS-21, S-2, USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) Death Code Non-Hostile Died; Fixed Wing - Crew; Air Loss, Crash - Sea Hometown   service # 5422888 Panel 12EAST - 52 married Single MIA - BNR Medals   Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery

(MIA report extracted from POW NETWORK) John Michael Riordan was born 1 Jan 1944. He was a member of the Air Antisubmarine Sqdn 21 that launched from USS KEARSARGE. On 10 Nov 66 at 10:30 p.m. an S2E with a pilot and 3 crewmembers launched on a routine surveillance flight over the Gulf of Tonkin. The Stoof (or Tracker) was last in radar contact with the control ship at 1:45 a.m. It was not uncommon to lose periodic radar contact with a Tracker when it dived below radar to investigate a surface target. When the Tracker do not return a search and resuce effort was made and wreckage was found. No bodies were recovered and Crewman Riordan and the other men were eventually removed from the MIA status to Killed/BNR.
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    Lowell Eugene SCHULTZ

Birth 06SEP46 Rank PFC Date of Death 10NOV66 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place S. Vietnam Town of Record Walla Walla Unit 4th Inf Div, A Co, 1st Bn, 22nd Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 56378783 Panel 12EAST - 52 married Single MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date 21 Jul 66 Cemetery

    Charles T. ANDERSON Jr.

Birth 15SEP46 Rank PFC Date of Death 12NOV66 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit 4th Inf Div, C Co, 1st Bn, 12th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Artillery, Rocket, Mortar Hometown   service # 56411078 Panel 12EAST - 58 married Single MIA -   Medals Bronze Star Tour Date 21JUL66 Comment   Cemetery   Garfield High School, Seattle WA, Senior - Class 1963: Boys' Club

Mother Accepts Bronze Star for Son Killed in Vietnam
    Army Pfc. Charles Thomas Anderson, Jr., killed in action in Vietnam 12 Nov (1966) was honored for his heroism today.
    The Bronze Star, with a "V" for valor, was presented to the soldier's mother, Mrs. Estella Anderson, 911 24th Ave., at Fort Lawton. Maj. Gen. C. F. Leonard Jr., X Corps commander, made the presentation.
    An accompany citation said:
"Pfc. Anderson's complete disregard for personal safety under enemy fire was an inspiration to his fellow soldiers. This outstanding display of devotion to duty, and personal bravery, is in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit on himself, his unity, and the United States Army."
    Anderson, 20, was an assistant machine gunner with the 4th Infantry Division, when his company was attacked by North Vietnamese. He repeatedly explosed himself to enemy fire to provide ammunition to a machine gun defending the position.
    A mortar shell exploded next to his position, mortally wounding him.
    Anderson entered the Army in November, 1965, and was sent to Vietnam in July, 1966. He was graduated from Garfield High School and had attended Olympic College one year. While in school he played football and basketball.
    Besides his mother, he is survived by his father, Charles T. Anderson, Pine Bluff AR; two sisters, Marva and Jeanette, and two brothers, Gregory and Michael Anderson, all of Seattle. (Seattle Times, Seattle WA, 3 Mar 1967)

    Carl Leonard FALCK Jr.

Birth 08APR47 Rank PFC Date of Death 13NOV66 P. of birth   Service Army Place S. Vietnam Town of Record Alder Unit 101st Abn Div, C Co, 2nd Bn, 502nd Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Hometown   service # 19861637 Panel 12EAST - 66 married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 17JUN66 Comment   Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR

    Richard Lee THOMPSON

Birth 18FEB44 Rank PFC Date of Death 16NOV66 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit 1ST Bn, 5th Mar, 1st Mar Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 2277151 Panel 12EAST - 82 married Married MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery

    Jesse Lee HARRIS

Birth 13JAN42 Rank SSGT Date of Death 19NOV66 P. of birth Hines WV Service Army Place S. Vietnam Town of Record Centralia Unit 25th Inf Div, HHC, 1st Bn, 14th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 19650582 Panel 12EAST - 88 married Married MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date 4 Oct 66 Cemetery National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu HI

Third Viet War Victim Reported in Centralia
    The son of a Centralia resident has died in the fighting in Viet Nam.
    He was Army Sgt. Jesse L. Harris, son of Mrs. Nora Sloby, Centralia. Sgt. Harris has become the third Lewis county victim of the fighting in the Viet Nam War.
    His mother received a telegram at 5 a.m. Monday containing notification of his death Saturday.
    The telegram, from Maj. Gen. Kenneth G. Wickham stated in part: "The Secretary of Army has asked me to express his deep regrets that your son, Sgt. L. Harris, died in Viet Nam on 11-19-66 as a result of gunshot wounds received when hit by hostile small arms fire while on combat operation.
    "Please accept my deepest Sympathy. . ."
    Sgt. Harris, 24, was born 13 Jun 1942 at Hines WV; The family moved to Mossyrock when he was five years old and he attended school at Mossyrock and later, Centralia where he attended high school in 1957.
    He entered service in 1959 and served three years in Germany. Sgt. Harris re-enlisted and was on his second tour of duty in Viet Nam. He was scheduled for discharge in December.
    Members of the family said he had been married 10 days before going to Viet Nam. He was married in January.
    Survivors are the widow, Rosalie, Oahu HI, his mother, Mrs. Sloby, Centralia; two sisters, Virginia and Anna Sloby, at the Centralia home; grandfather, James M. Stiltner, Green Cove Springs FA, and several aunts and uncles in the Lewis County area.
    Other Lewis county victims of the Viet Nam war are PFC Harry Dwight Lund, 18, Chehalis, who died in November and Chief Warrant Officer Robert Dowling, 27, Chehalis, killed in action 12 Jan.
    In addition Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert L. Berry Jr., son of Mrs. John W. Bowington, Centralia, died in Thailand 23 Jul (1966) of a highly contagious fever.

    John Neto RODRIGUES

Birth 14MAR30 Rank SSGT Date of Death 24NOV66 P. of birth Kona HI Service Army Place Japan Town of Record Redwood City CA Unit   Death Code Non-Hostile, died of illness, ground casualty Hometown   service # 1073200 Local Tacoma married Married Panel 12EAST - 116 Medals   Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery

John Neto Rodrigues, 36, of 15011 Washington Ave., SW., died Thursday in a hospital in Japan after an illness. He was born in Kona HI and moved to the Tacoma area in 1962 from Germany. Mr. Rodrigues was employed as a carpenter by the Army. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War and was a member of the Catholic Church. Survivors include his wife, Velvet; five sons, John Jr., Anthony Lawrence, David James, Robert Michael and Raymond Matthew, and two daughters, Cynthia Louise and Francine Marie, all of the home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Rodrigues, three brothers, Antonio Jr., of Honolulu, Staff Sgt. John B., of the Air Force, and John E., of Haywood; and two sisters, Mrs. Susie Guzman, of California, and Mrs. Genevieve Guzman, of Hawaii. Services will be announced by Mountain View Funeral Home. (Tacoma News Tribune, Tacoma WA, 28Nov66)

    David Terrance 'Terry' HAKE

Birth 07FEB45 Rank PFC Date of Death 25NOV66 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Ngai, S. Vietnam Town of Record Burton Unit Co B, 1 Bn, 7 Mar, 1 Mar Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 2219894 Panel 12EAST - 117 married Married MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery

    Jess Lyle WALTMAN

Birth 19JUL25 Rank TSGT Date of Death 26NOV66 P. of birth   Service Air Force Place Gia Dinh S. Vietnam Town of Record Dixon CA Unit  : Death Code Non-hostile; Fixed Wing-Noncrew; Air Loss, Crash on Land Hometown   service # 19475580 Panel 12EAST - 121 married married Local Olympia Medals   In service 12 yrs Comment   Cemetery Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno CA

    William Robert DEVORE

Birth 28SEP47 Rank PVT Date of Death 28NOV66 P. of birth Bremerton Service Marines (Reserve) Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Bremerton Unit Co I, 3/3RD Mar Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 2197649 Panel 12EAST - 126 married Single MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery

DeVore, 19, Killed in Viet War Marine Pvt. William Robert DeVore, 19-year-old son of Robert C. DeVore, 4207 Kelly Road, was killed in action in Viet Nam, it was learned here today. The young man, who graduated from Vashon High School at mid-term last school year had been in the Marine Corps since February. He was stationed at Da Nang with Co. I, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. He was born in Bremerton 28 Sep 1947, and attended schools in Bremerton and Port Orchard before moving to Long Beach CA, about five years ago. He returned to the Puget Sound area to complete high school at Vashon. Surviving, in addition to his father here are his mother, Mrs. L. D. Hollis, Cove (Vashon Island); three sisters, Susan, 17, Peggy, 14, Debra, 11 and two half-sisters, Jodie, 3 and Jerrie, 2, all of Vashon Island. (Bremerton Sun, Bremerton WA, 30 Nov 1966)

DEVORE, Pvt. William Robert Funeral services will be held at the Episcopal Church on Vashon Island, 2 p.m. Wednesday, December 7, 1966. Private DeVore was killed in action in Viet Nam 28 Nov 1966. He was stationed at Da Nang with Co I, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. Private DeVore was born in Bremerton 28 Sep 1947, and had attended schools in Bremerton and Port Orchard. He completed school at Vashon. Survivors include his father, Robert DeVore of 4207 Kelly Road; mother, Mrs. L. D. Hollis of Vashon; three sisters, Susan, Peggy Debra, and half sisters, Jodie and Jerrie all of Vashon Island; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mackle; paternal grandfather, C. W. DeVore of Olympia; and numerous aunts and uncles. A memorial fund has been set up in memory of Robert DeVore at Peoples National Bank by the people of Vashon for the Vietnamese Orphanage supported by the Marine Corps. (Bremerton Sun, Bremerton WA, 6 Dec 1966)

    John Morton ROPER

Birth 01JUL31 Rank MAJ Date of Death 29NOV66 P. of birth   Service Air Force (Reserve) Place Laos Town of Record Bellingham Unit 602nd Air Commando Squadron Death Code Hostile Died; Fixed Wing - Pilot; Air Loss Crash - Land Hometown   service # 3035611 Panel 12EAST - 130 married Married MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date 15 Jul 66 Cemetery Ft. Sam Houston National Cem., San Antonio TX

Former Local Man Dies in Viet Nam
    Air Force Capt. John Morton Roper, 35, formerly of Kelly Road in the Rome district, has been killed in Viet Nam.
    Roper, son of the late Morton Roper, a Bellingham Realtor, is the ninth local man to die in Viet Nam in the past year, not counting deaths in the recent Oriskany fire.
    Roper's mother, Kathryn, is now a resident of Buena Park CA. No details on Roper's death were available.
    In addition to his mother, Roper is survived by his widow, formerly Ruth Forbes of Bellingham and two sons, Mark and Avid, at the family home in San Antonio TX, and two aunts, Mrs. Marjorie Eggleston, Bellingham, and Mrs. Evelyn Goodlund, Deming.
    Roper, who attended Harmony Grade School, was a 1950 graduate of Mount Baker High School. He later was graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree and the University of Oklahoma with a masters.
    Roper had been in the Air Force since then and was a former flight instructor at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. He had been assigned to the 602nd Flight Command Squadron in Viet Nam.
    Funeral arrangements are pending. (The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham WA, Thursday, 1 Dec 1966)