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Jimmie Robert DeWoody

11 Feb 1915 – 17 Apr 2015

Birth11 Feb 1915
Death17 Apr 2015
CemeterySunset Memorial Gardens
Odessa , Ector County , Texas , USA
Added byAnonymous Child on 19 Apr 2015
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145192354

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Buried 4/20/2015 Jimmie Robert DeWoody, 100 years of age passed away Friday, April 17, 2015, at Medical Center Hospital. He was born February 11, 1915, in Huntington, TX, to James Andrew and Georgia DeWoody. He retired from Shell Oil Co. after 34 years of service as a driller and lease operator. Jimmie was a WWII hero. He was a Staff Sergeant in the 9th Armored Division, 52nd Armored Infantry Battalion Medical Detachment. He was a combat medic during the Battle of the Bulge. He was a prisoner of war in a German POW camp for 9 months. He received the American Defense Service Medal, European-African Middle Easter Campaign Medal, 3 Bronze Service Stars, Purple Heart, American Campaign Medal, Good Conduct Medal and World War II Victory Medal. The 9th AID received two presidential citations for Bastogne and Remagen. He is also enrolled in the WWII Registry of Remembrances at the National WWII Memorial in Washington, DC. He originally enlisted in the Army in 1936, and was stationed at Fort Ringold in the Rio Grande Valley and was in the Calvary. He was honorably discharged and re-enlisted after Pearl Harbor. He also served in the Coast Guard Reserve. He was a member of the American POW Organization, 50-year member and past Master of Masonic Lodge 1421 (Andy G. Vaughn). He was also a member of Sherwood Baptist Church. He is preceded in death by his parents, brothers, Hugh, Andrew James, and Bobby DeWoody, and sisters, Mollie Wilson and Ora Nell Jones. Source: HubbardKellyFuneralHome.com 4/18/2015

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