FACES FROM THE WALL

VIETNAM WAR
IDAHO

1970 June - December

    BILL GENE WILLIAMS
Birth 14MAR44 Rank SGT Date of Death 03JUN70
P. of birth   Service Army Place ** Cambodia
Town of
Record 		HAILEY Unit 1st Cav Div D Co 1st Bn 7th CavDeath Code Hostile, Died Wounds; Gun, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty
Hometown   service # 519524431 Panel 09WEST - 06
Married Married In Service  Medals  
Tour Date 21AUG69 Comment   Cemetery  

    FRED STEVEN SMART
Birth 27APR50 Rank PFC Date of Death 19JUN70
P. of birth Nampa Service Marines (Drafted)Place Quang Nam, S. Vietnam
Town of
Record 		MERIDIAN Unit C CO 1/7TH MARS 1ST MARDIVDeath Code Hostile, Died; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds; Ground Casualty
Hometown   service # 518609111 Panel 09WEST - 70
Married SingleIn Service   Medals  
Tour Date 15MAY70 Comment   CemeteryCloverdale Memorial Park, Boise ID

Pfc. Fred Smart
    Boise - Marine Pfc. Fred Steven Smart, 20, was killed June 16 in Da Nang, Vietnam, when he stepped on a land mine.
    The Marine private was the son of Fred W. Smart, Twin Falls, and Mrs. Eva Love, Seattle. He had been stationed with the First Marine Division Company C at Da Nang since May.
    He was born April 27, 1950, in Nampa. He attended Boise schools and was graduated from Twin Falls High School in 1968. He was employed by Trus-Joist Corp., in Boise until entering the Marine Corps in October of 1969.
    Survivors include his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Smart, Twin Falls, his mother, Mrs. Eva Love, Seattle; four brothers, Dick of Meridian, Dan with the Navy in Virginia, and Darwin and Dean Smart, both of Twin Falls. He is also survivied by three sisters, Judy and Frances Smart, Seattle, and Lisa Smart, Twin Falls; two stepbrothers, Tom Bulmer, Twin Falls and Mike Bulmer, Pocatello; grandparents, Mrs. Stella Smart, Kuna, and Mrs. and Mrs. Glen Wilmot, Boise, and several aunts and uncles.
    Services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday at Cloverdale Funeral Home in Boise with Chaplain Lt. Charles Lapp, U.S. Navy Reserve, officiating. Interment will be at Cloverdale Memorial Park with military honors. Friends may call at the chapel until noon Saturday.
    Pall bearers will include Rod Schoen, Charles Anthony, Bill Moser, Ron Gillespie, Merle Bartlett and Wayne McFadden. (Idaho Free Press & Caldwell News-Tribune 26 June 1970)

    ALBARO QUEZADA GARCIA

Birth 19FEB49 Rank SP4 Date of Death 24JUN70
P. of birth Juarez, MexicoService Army (Drafted) PlaceCambodia
Town of
Record 		NAMPA Unit 9th Inf Div C Co 5th Bn 60th InfDeath Code Hostile, Died Wounds; Gun, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty
Hometown   service # 519602469 Panel 09WEST - 88
Married Single In Service  Medals  
Tour Date 05FEB70 Comment   Cemetery  

Albaro Q. Garcia
Nampa -
    Requiem Mass for Sp. 4 Albaro Q. Garcia, 21, of 120 Ninth Ave. N. was celebrated this morning at St. Paul's Catholic Church.
    Mr. Garcia died June 24 at a military medical facility in Vietnam from injuries received during combat in Cambodia the same day.
    The Rev. Father Alfonso Amezcua was the celebrant. Full military rites were conducted th Kohlerlawn Cemetery under the command of Lt. Col. James H. Paul, special service officer, Boise. Rosary devotions were recited Sunday evening at Shepherd Mortuary Chapel.
    Mr. Garcia was born Feb. 19, 1949, at Juarez, Mexico, and was reared and attended schools in Texas. He moved to Nampa in 1966 and joined the Job Corps that year. He graduated from high school while serving with the Job Corps in New Jersey. He attended Boise State College for one year before entering the service. He had served with the Army in Vietnam since January, where he was a member of Company C, Fifth Battalion, Sixtieth Infantry, Third Brigade of the Ninth Infantry Division.
    He is survived by his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Alfredo Neagele, Nampa; three sisters, Mrs. Vincenta Hernandez, Juarez, Mexico, Mrs. Teresa Jiminez and Miss Euginea Garcia, both of Nampa, and Magdalena Garcia, Caldwell. (Idaho Free Press & Caldwell News-Tribune, 6 Jul 1970)

    JOHN E S "Scott" MITCHELL JR

Birth 12FEB51 Rank SP4 Date of Death 02JUL70
P. of birth   Service Army Place Quang Tin, S. Vietnam
Town of
Record 		AMERICAN FALLS Unit Americal Div C Co 23rd Medical Bn Death Code Hostile, Died; Other Explosive Device; Ground Casualty
Hometown   service # 519649982 Panel 09WEST - 112
Married Single In Service  Medals  
Tour Date 02MAY70 Comment   Cemetery  

    EDDIE D MAPES
Birth 18JAN51 Rank SP4 Date of Death 12JUL70
P. of birth   Service Army Place Quang Tin, S. Vietnam
Town of
Record 		KOOTENAI Unit 196th LIB HHC 3rd Bn 21st Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Other Explosive Device; Ground Casualty
Hometown   service # 519633932 Panel 08WEST - 12
Married Single In Service  Medals  
Tour Date 31MAY70 Comment   Cemetery  

    WILLIAM DARWIN BLENKINSOP
Birth 26JUN51 Rank CPL Date of Death 29AUG70
P. of birth   Service Army (Drafted) Place Binh Dinh S. Vietnam
Town of
Record 		COEUR D ALENE Unit 173rd Abn Bde A Co 4th Bn 503rd Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Other Explosive Device; Ground Casualty
Hometown   service # 519487406 Panel 07WEST - 21
Married Single In Service  Medals  
Tour Date 16JUL70 Comment   Cemetery 

William Blenkinsop, 19 Army Pfc. William D. Blenkinsop, Bayview, was killed in action 29 Aug (1970), while serving as a U.S. Army paratrooper in Vietnam, the Army reported Monday. Pfc. Blenkinsop, who attended high school in Coeur d'Alene for three years, died as a result of a field accident involving an enemy ground explosion, an Army spokesman said. He had served in Vietnam 39 days with the Headquarters Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade. The body was flown from Vietnam to the Walker Funeral Home, McCall, for the funeral with services planned Wednesday. (The Coeur d'Alene Press, Coeur d'Alene ID, 8 Sept 1970) Thank you Coeur d'Alene Public Library

    JOHN FREDERICK SHIEFER

Birth 13OCT39 Rank 1LT Date of Death 29AUG70
P. of birth   Service Army (Reserves) Place Thua Thien, S. Vietnam
Town of
Record 		BOISE Unit 101st Abn Div Trp C 2nd Sqd 17th Cav Death Code Hostile, Died; Air Loss, Crashed on Land; Helicopter - Pilot
Hometown   service # 518404862 Panel 07WEST - 23
Married Married In Service  Medals  
Tour Date 31MAY70 Comment   Cemetery  

    EUGENE EBEN WOLTERS
Birth 30JAN51 Rank LCPL Date of Death 30AUG70
P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Nam, S. Vietnam
Town of
Record 		COEUR D ALENE Unit  Death Code Non-hostile, Died Other; Accidental Self-Destruction; Ground Casualty
Hometown   service # 518640001 Panel 07WEST - 25
Married Single In Service 2 yrs Medals  
Tour Date 15OCT69 Comment   Cemetery  

    CRAIG W HIRSCHI
Birth 29JUL49 Rank PFC Date of Death 15SEP70
P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Nam, S. Vietnam
Town of
Record 		REXBURG Unit CO M 3 BN 1 MARS 1 MAR DIV Death Code Non-hostile, Died Other; Other Accident; Ground Casualty
Hometown   service # 519646086 Panel 07WEST - 65
Married Single In Service  Medals  
Tour Date 08AUG70 Comment   Cemetery  

    ROBERT WILLIAM NELSON
Birth 15FEB51 Rank SP4 Date of Death 29SEP70
P. of birth   Service Army Place Binh Duong, S. Vietnam
Town of
Record 		RIGBY Unit 1st Cav Div Trp E 1st Sqd 9th Cav Death Code Hostile, Died; Air Loss, Crashed on Land; Helicopter - Crew
Hometown   service # 518602234 Panel 07WEST - 100
Married Single In Service  Medals  
Tour Date 12JAN70 Comment   Cemetery  

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Ellie Grover, Idaho genealogist


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