Birth 13DEC37 Rank SSGT Date of Death 01JUN67 P. of birth Massachuetts Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Beverly MA Unit 3rd Mar Div, L Co, 3rd Bn, 9th Marines Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Other Explosive Hometown   service # 1866763 Local Bremerton married Married Panel 21EAST - 27 Medals   Tour Date ... Comment   Cemetery Woodlawn Memorial Park

GALLANT, Staff Sgt. Frank J. - 29, 807 Cogean Avenue, was killed in Vietnam combat 1 Jun 1967. He was with L Company, 9th Marines and had been in Vietnam since 1 Jan (1967). He had been in the Marine Corps since 1958, joining that service after four years in the Air Force. Sergeant Gallant is a native of Massachusetts and was born 13 Dec 1937. Survivors include his wife, May; mother, Mrs. Rita Gallant, and two brothers, Raymond and Joseph Gallant, all of Beverly Massachusetts. Requiem Mass will be said at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Naval Chapel. Interment will be at Woodlawn Memorial Park. MILLER-REYNOLDS FUNERAL HOME are handling the arrangements. (Bremerton Sun, Bremerton WA, 12 Jun 1967)

    Roderick Dane MC MURRY

Birth 29NOV46 Rank CPL Date of Death 01JUN67 P. of birth   Service Marines (Draft) Place Quang Nam, S. Vietnam Town of Record Mossyrock Unit G Co, 2d Bn, 7th Mar, 1st Mar Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown Mossyrock service # 2221565 Panel 21EAST - 29 married   MIA -   Medals   Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery

Two Tacoma Area Marines Slain in War
    The combat deaths of two Tacoma area Marines in Vietnam were announced Thursday by the Defense Department.
    They were Pfc. James A. Weed, 19, of Parkland, and Cpl. Roderick M. McMurry, 21, of Mossyrock.
    Weed, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Weed, of 11206 Bingham Ave. E. was a 1966 graduate of Lincoln High School. He was born in Oklahoma and came to Tacoma as a small child, living during his school years on South Bell Street. He also attended Fawcett Elementary School and Stewart Junior High School
    He had been active in youth groups at both First Baptist Church and Calvary Baptist Church. He enlisted in July and was sent to Vietnam in January.
    Surviving besides his parents are two brothers, Stephen and Ricky, and a sister, Barbara, all of the home; a grandmother, Mrs. Mary Weed, of Tacoma; two aunts, Miss Pauline Gaupp and Mrs. Margaret Boyles, both of Tacoma; and three uncles, Fred Gaupp, of Tacoma, Charlie Gaupp, of Seattle, and William Brewer, of Tulsa OK.
    Services will be announced
    McMurry, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene McMurry, of Mossyrock, was killed by a rifle shot near Da Nang, the associated Press reported. His wife and a year-old daughter live at Salem OR. McMurry had nearly completed his Vietnam tour and was scheduled to return to the United States when he was killed 2 Jun (1967). (Tacoma News Tribune, Tacoma WA, 7 Jun 1967)

    James Allan WEED

Birth 18MAY48 Rank PFC Date of Death 03JUN67 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tin, S. Vietnam Town of Record Tacoma Unit HQ, 2 BN, 5 Mar, 1st Mar Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 2277443 Panel 21EAST - 54 married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery

DONALD LEE PATTERSON

Birth 04JAN47 Rank PFC Date of Death O4JUN67 P. of birth Yakima Service Army (Draft) Place Binh Long S. Vietnam Town of Record Florence Unit 25th Inf Div, D Co, 1st Bn, 27th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Guns, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty Hometown Yakima service # 56957213 Panel 21EAST - 58 Married Single In service   Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date 06APR67 Comment   Cemetery

First War Casualty From Western Lane
    The first casualty in the Vietnam War from Western Lane County is Private First Class Donald Lee Patterson, United States Army, 20, Florence. The soldier's father, Lester L. Patterson, who lives at 1621 20th St., was notified by telegram, delivered by Army personnel Monday afternoon that his son Donald had been killed in action in Vietnam on 4 Jun 1967.
    According to the telegram Private First Class Donald Patterson was on a combat operation when he was hit by hostile small arm fire.
    Private Patterson lived in Yakima WA until moving to Florence in 1965. He graduated in 1966 from Siuslaw High School having gone there his junior and senior years. While at Siuslaw he was on the wrestling team, and in his senior year was district champion in the 130 pound wrestling class.
    He was born in Yakima WA 4 Jan 1947. Pvt. Patterson is survived by his father Lester L. Patterson, Florence; his mother, Mrs. Betty Lee Gibson, Yakima WA; and grandmothers, Mrs. Pete Walker of Grandview ID and Mrs. Rose Engelhart, Yakima
    There are, at present, some 150 men now serving with the Armed Forces in the continental United States and overseas from Western Lane County.
    Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date by Riverside Chapel in Florence. (Siuslaw News, Florence OR, 8 Jun 1967)
Thank you Oregon Genealogical Society

Florence GI Dies In Combat Eugene (AP) Army Pfc. Donald L. Patterson, 19, of Forence, was killed Sunday in Vietnam. Lester Patterson was notified of his son's death Tuesday. The Defense Department telegram said only that young Patterson died as a result of hostile small arms fire. He was a 1966 graduate of Siuslaw High School in Florence. (The Oregonian, Portland OR, 7 Jun 1967)

    Larry Lee PRICE

Birth 29JAN47 Rank PVT Date of Death 04JUN67 P. of birth Everett Service Army Place S. Vietnam Town of Record Marysville Unit 87th Trans Co Death Code Non-Hostile Died Illness/Injury; Ground Casualty; Hometown Tulalip service # 19788685 Panel 21EAST - 56 married Single Link Tulalip Vets Medals   Tour Date 08SEP66 Comment Member: Tulalip Tribes Cemetery Mission Beach Cem.

Remembrance for Larry Lee Price is in the book "2005 Directory of Tulalip Veterans" edited by Sherry Guydelkon and published by the Tulalip Tribes of Washington State. He was one of 3 men associated with the Tulalip tribe to die in Vietnam.

Pvt. Larry Lee Price, Star Route Marysville, U. S. Army, 20, was killed in action (newspaper error) 4 Jun 1967 in Vietnam. Services: Friday, 1 pm, Tulalip Tribal Hall, the Rev. Adam Williams and the Rev. Robert Jones officiating; burial, family plot, Mission Beach Cemetery. Full military honors by the U. S. Army.(Everett Herald)

    Duane Scott BAKER

Birth 24NOV38 Rank CAPT Date of Death 06JUN67 P. of birth Longview WA Service Air Force Place Quang Ngai, S. Vietnam Town of Record Renton Unit 416 TAC FTR Sqdn Death Code Hostile Died Missing; Fixed Wing - Pilot; Air Loss Crash - Land Hometown Gresham OR service # 73149 Panel 21EAST - 60 married Married In service 6 yrs Medals   Tour Date 24NOV66 Comment   Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR

    Niles BURNEY

Birth 14MAY45 Rank LCPL Date of Death 06JUN67 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Nam, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit CAC B4 SU 1 SERV CO HQ CO 1 MA Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 2129188 Panel 21EAST - 60 married Married MIA -   Medals   Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery Golden Gate National Cem., San Bruno CA

Birth 06JUL29 Rank COL Date of Event 07JUN67 P. of birth Wisconsin Service Air Force Place N. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit Udorn, Thailand Death Code Hostile Died Missing; Fixed Wing - Pilot; Air Loss Crash - Land Hometown   service # 533223825 Declared Dead 04APR78 married   MIA - BNR Medals   Panel 21EAST - 70 Comment   Cemetery

    Gregory Paul VERCRUYSSE

Birth 29MAY47 Rank HN (corpsman) Date of Death 07JUN67 P. of birth Spokane Service Navy Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Spokane Unit H&S Co, 1st Bn, 26th Mar, 3rd Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # B807475 Panel 21EAST - 70 married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery Fairmont Memorial Park

    Robert Harvey PEARSON

Birth 20AUG42 Rank CAPT Date of Death 11JUN67 P. of birth   Service Air Force (Reserve) Place N. Vietnam Town of Record Everett Unit 389TH Tactical Fighter Squadron Death Code Hostile Died Missing; Fixed Wing-Pilot; Air Loss, Crash-Land Hometown Marysville service # 536403225 Panel 21EAST - married   MIA - remains id 1988 Medals   Tour Date 13DEC66 Comment   Cemetery Marysville Cemetery, Marysville WA     Marysville High School, Marysville WA, 1960

Washington State University, Pullman WA Senior - Class 1964: major: Politcal Science, member: Delta Tau Delta

Marysville High School, Marysville WA class of 1960. Senior - Class of 1960:

(MIA report extracted from P.O.W. Network). Robert Harvey Pearson was born 20 Aug 1942 and died 11 Jun 1967. He was carried on the MIA lists until 1988 when his remains were returned and identified. More information at P.O.W. Network Researcher Notes Pearson was big man on campus at Marysville High School where he was A.S.B. President; A.S.B. Treasurer; Soph. Class President; member of Football and the Honor Society. He was returned to Marysville and buried with honors at the Marysville Cemetery. (DAB note 3 Jan 2005)

    Manuel Vega TORRES

Birth 15JUL46 Rank SP4 Date of Death 13JUN67 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Wenatchee Unit 25th Inf Div B Co 1st Bn 14th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 56412360 Panel 21EAST - 99 married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 07DEC66 Comment   Cemetery

Birth 02DEC36 Rank SSGT Date of Death 15JUN67 P. of birth   Service Army Place   S. Vietnam Town of Record Cottage Grove OR Unit platoon leader, 5th Special Forces Group A-219 Death Code Hostile, Died of Wounds; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 19488345 Local Seattle married Single Panel 21EAST - 110 Medals Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart Tour Date 18DEC66 Comment   Cemetery Willamette National Cemetery, Portland OR

Kin To Get Hero Medals Cottage Grove The mother of an Army sergeant killed in Vietnam will receive Saturday several heroism medals awarded her son. The medals will be presented in special ceremonies at Ft. Lewis WA., to Gertrude Ladd, mother of S. Sgt. Hubert Van Poll of Cottage Grove. The awards to be presented include the Distinguished Service Cross second only to the Medal of Honor, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with second oak leaf cluster, and Purple Heart. Van Poll, 30, was a platoon leader in the Army's special forces. On the day he was killed, 15 Jun 1967, Van Poll rescued a wounded comrade under heavy fire, was knocked down by a grenade explosion but still got the man to safety then was mortally wounded while treating the man's wounded. The Silver Star will be presented for similar action on 1 May 1967, when Van Poll charged enemy gunners and ignored heavy fire to rescue another wounded American. (The Oregonian, Portland OR, 24 Feb 1968)

Mother Accepts Medals Awarded Posthumously Fort Lewis WA In ceremonies at Ft. Lewis Saturday, Mrs. James H. Ladd of Cottage Grove,Ore., accepted the Distinguished Service Cross and other medals awarded posthumously to her son for heroism in Vietnam. The soldier, Staff Sgt. Hubert Van Poll, braved enemy fire to save a wounded comrade. Brig. Gen. Robert L.Ashworth acting commander of Ft. Lewis and the U.S.Army training center here, presented Mrs. Ladd the DSC Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. The sergeant's father, retired Navy CPO Cornelius C. Van Poll of Seattle, was presented a duplicate set of medals previously. (The Oregonia, Portland OR, 25 Feb 1968)

Birth 15JUL46 Rank SP4 Date of Death 16JUN67 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Bien Hoa, S. Vietnam Town of Record Kirkland Unit 9th Inf Div, HHT, 3rd Sqdr, 5th Cav Death Code Hostile Died Wounds Ground Casualty Other Causes Hometown   service # 56411126 Panel 21EAST - 111 married Single Link 9th Infantry Medals   Tour Date 12DEC66 Comment   Cemetery

Birth 17DEC43 Rank SP4 Date of Death 17JUN67 P. of birth   Service Army Place Phuoc Long, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit 1st Inf Div, Co. A, 1st Bn, 16th Infantry Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Hometown   service # 19844138 Panel 21EAST - 125 married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 10 Mar 67 Comment   Cemetery Evergreen-Washelli, Seattle WA

    Charles Edward WEST

Birth 01JUL29 Rank SSGT Date of Death 17JUN67 P. of birth   Service Air Force Place Binh Dinh, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit 637TH COS GP Death Code Non-Hostile Died Missing Fixed Wing - NonCrew Air Loss Crash - Land Hometown   service # 14311355 Panel 22EAST - 04 married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 17NOV66 Comment   Cemetery

Birth 29JAN47 Rank SP4 Date of Death 19JUN67 P. of birth   Service Army Place Gia Dinh S. Vietnam Town of Record Sacramento Ca Unit 9th Inf Div, A Co, 4th Bn, 47th Inf Death Code Hostile, died while missing; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 19811666 Local Everett married single Panel 22EAST - 22 Medals   Tour Date 10JAN67 Comment 9th Infantry Cemetery

Birth 06DEC40 Rank SP4 Date of Death 19JUN67 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Gia Dinh, S. Vietnam Town of Record Tacoma Unit 9th Inf Div, A Co, 4th Bn, 47th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died Missing; Ground Casualty; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Hometown   service # 56427096 Panel 22EAST - 22 married Single Links 9th Infantry; and Medic Medals Silver Star Tour Date 10JAN67 Comment   Cemetery

Robert Frank WRIGHT

Birth 08JUN44 Rank SP4 Date of Death 19JUN67 P. of birth Bremerton Service Army Draft) Place Gia Dinh, S. Vietnam Town of Record Bremerton Unit 9th Inf Div, A Co, 4th Bn, 47th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died Missing; Ground Casualty; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Hometown   service # 56427135 Panel 22EAST - 23 married Married College WSU-1964 Medals   Tour Date 10JAN67 Comment 9th Infantry Cemetery Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery   West High School, Bremerton WA, 1962

Olympic College, Bremerton WA, 1964

Bremerton Soldier Killed in Vietnam     Cpl. Robert F. Wright, a native of Bremerton, was killed in action in Vietnam last Monday when his unit was pinned down by enemy forces 17 miles south of Saigon.     Wright's company was all but wiped out under heavy Viet Cong fire, He was a part of Alpha Company of the 4th Brigade of the 9th Infantry Division.     The 9th Infantry had attacked a 300-man enemy battalion in a waterborne assault. They killed 249 Viet Cong while losing 32 Americans and 126 men were wounded.     One of the dead was Wright.     Wright was born in Bremerton 8 Jun 1944, and lived here all his life, graduating from both West High School and Olympic College. He also attended Washington State University.     He was drafted into the Army 16 May 1966, and at the time he was an apprentice pipefitter at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.     Wright was married to Maureen Hudson, a South Kitsap graduate, 26 Jun 1965. She survives at the Northlake Trailer Court.     His widow had spent a week with her husband in Hawaii in April when he was on a rest and recuperation leave.     The 23-year-old soldier had gone through his training at Fort Riley, Kan., and had been in the infantry in Vietnam since January.     Both Wright and his wife participated in bowling leagues in Bremerton. They were members of the Presbyterian Church.     Besides his widow, he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold I. Wright, 3226 E. Mathews Drive, and his brother, Dennis, at Camp Welch, as Washington State University summer engineering camp in the Cascades.     Military services are pending at Lewis Funeral Chapel (The Bremerton Sun, Bremerton WA, 4 Jul 1967)

    Leslie Eugene ENGELHART

Birth 28NOV43 Rank LCPL Date of Death 20JUN67 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Off Shore, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit HMM164 MAG15 9THMAB FMFPAC Death Code Non-Hostile, Died; Helicopter - Crew; Air Loss, Crash - Sea Hometown Seattle service # 2094090 Panel 22EAST - 24 married Married Link Popasmoke.com and Helicopter Medals   Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery       Ingraham High School, Seattle, 1962

    Forrest Lee RAMOS

Birth 11NOV46 Rank SP4 Date of Death 20JUN67 P. of birth Yakima Service Army (Draft) Place Gia Dinh, S. Vietnam Town of Record Wapato Unit 9th Inf Div, C Co, 4th Bn, 47th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died Missing; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 56412266 Panel 22EAST - 27 married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 10JAN67 Comment 9th Infantry Cemetery Reservation Community Memorial Park

Services read for Sp/4 Ramos
    Funeral services for Sp/4 Forrest Lee Ramos, 20, were held Saturday in St. Peter Claver Catholic Church at 8:30 a/m/ Father F. E. O'Hearn officiating.
    Sp/4 Ramos was killed in action in Vietnam, Tuesday 20 Jun (1967). His family was notified by Lt. Watts of the Yakima Firing Center. He had entered the United States Armed forces in July of 1966.
    Sp/4 Ramos was born 15 Nov 1946 in Yakima. He graduated from Wapato High School, 10 Jun 1965. He had been a member of St. Peter Claver Catholic Church.
    Members of the family include his father, Narcisco Ramos, 112 West C St.; four brothers, John, Charles and Jesse of Wapato, and Paul of Los Angeles CA; three sisters, Mrs. Manuel Espinoza, Mrs. Linda Ramos and Miss Rosemary Ramos, all of Wapato.
    Vigil and wake services were held Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. in St. Peter Claver Catholic Church.
    Burial was in the veteran section of the Reservation Community Memorial Park, under the direction of the U.S. Army. Sourwine-Merritt Funeral Home had charge of all funeral arrangements. (Wapato Independent, 6 Jul 1967)

    William Peter WAGNER III

Birth 29APR45 Rank 2LT Date of Death 21JUN67 P. of birth   Service Army (Reserve) Place Binh Dinh, S. Vietnam Town of Record Longview Unit 1st Cav Div, B Co, 1st Bn, 5th Cav Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # O5331841 Panel 22EAST - 34 married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 04MAR67 Comment   Cemetery

Birth 11JUL48 Rank PFC Date of Death 28JUN67 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Quang Ngai, S. Vietnam Town of Record Federal Way Unit 25th Inf Div, B Co, 1st Bn, 35th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Hometown   service # 56957686 Panel 22EAST - 78 married Single Link Cacti Medals   Tour Date 08MAY67 Comment   Cemetery

Birth 20OCT46 Rank SP5 Date of Death 29JUN67 P. of birth   Service Army Place Binh Duong, S. Vietnam Town of Record Spokane Unit 25th Inf Div, C Co, 4th Bn, 23rd Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Other Causes Hometown   service # 19777714 Panel 22EAST - 86 married Married MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 04DEC66 Comment   Cemetery