LOWRANCE (DIRECTLY RELATED) MILITARY SERVICE

 

WAR                           RANK                NAME                         BRANCH                        LOCATION

CIVIL WAR                                      PVT/LT                        JAMES M. SMITH                            UNION ARMY                                              MISSOURI

                                                                                                                                                                 Co. D, 16th Regiment

                                                                                                                                                                 Calvary

CIVIL WAR                                      PVT                               THOMAS L. LEWIS                        UNION ARMY                                              TENNESSEE

                                                                                                                                                                 CO A, 5TH REG’T                                        GEORGIA

                                                                                                                         Tenn. Inf

                                                                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                    

WW I                                                 PVT                                LEE  LOWRANCE                            ARMY                                                            STATESIDE DUTY

 

WW II                                                1LT                                JIM WILSON                                   US ARMY, INF                                              GERMANY

                                                            E-3                                  MURIEL AMOS                               US NAVY                                                        SOUTH PACIFIC

                                                            E-4                                  MELVIN AMOS                               US NAVY                                                        ATLANTIC

                                                            E-6                                  ROBERT AMOS                             AIR FORCE                                                     UNKN

                                                            E-3 (Acting E-6)           DEAN LOWRANCE                       ARMY COMBAT ENGRS                            FRANCE, GERMANY

                                                            FIREMAN 1/C              JACK JOHNSON                           US COAST GUARD                                      N. ATLANTIC

                                                            SC 2/C                           BILL JOHNSON                             US COAST GUARD                                      STATESIDE

                                                            E-3                                  MYER MASLIN                                US ARMY, MP                                                FRANCE

 

KOREA                                             CPT                                JIM WILSON                                   US ARMY, AG                                              S. KOREA

KOREA                                             SN 1/C                           MAURICE ROACH                         US NAVY                                                       ATLANTIC

 

VIETNAM                                        1LT                                 RON LOWRANCE                          US ARMY, INF                                              I CORPS, DMZ

                                                           SSG                                ROBERT HEADLEY                        US ARMY, ENGRS                                      IV CORPS

                                                           SGT                                JERRY LEWIS                                 US MARINES, INF                                        I CORPS, DMZ

 

GULF WAR                                     SP4                                 MARGARET JOHNSON               ARMY MEDICAL CORPS                          SAUDI ARABIA

GULF WAR                                     MAJ                               RON LOWRANCE                          US ARMY, INF                                              SAUDI ARABIA/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          NEUT ZONE

 

 

                                                   PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS

 

NAME                                                           MILITARY RANK                                LOCATION/WAR

KENNETH JACK JOHNSON                                          FIREMAN 1/C                                              NORTH SEA, WWII

Note: F1/C Johnson was killed-in-action when the US Navy Destroyer Escort (DE-319) USS Leopold, Division 22, came under attack by a German submarine while providing armed escort for fuel tankers headed for England. The US Coast Guard manned this ship. The USS Leopold was sunk by a German U-255 acoustic torpedo south of Iceland in the stormy waters of the North Atlantic. Jack was lost at sea.

* Jack is the brother of Carrol Jane Johnson Lowrance.

 

JAMES WILSON                                                                1ST LT                                                           GERMANY, WWII

Note: Major Wilson was wounded as a POW while being transferred as a German prison of war. (Major Wilson jumped at Normandy on "D:" Day and was captured by the Germans.)

* This is Anne’s father, Ron Lowrance’s wife.

 

JERRY LEWIS                                                                    SARGEANT                                                  I CORPS, VIETNAM

Note: SGT Lewis was wounded while serving his 2nd tour of duty in northern South Vietnam.

                    * Jerry Lewis is the son of Vernon and Edna Lewis.

 

NAME                                   RELATIONSHIP

 

JAMES SMITH                                 GREAT GRANDFATHER OF CARROL LOWRANCE, ON HER MOTHER'S SIDE

 

THOMAS L. LEWIS                         GREAT GRANDFATHER OF DEAN LOWRANCE ON HIS MOTHER’S SIDE

 

LEE LOWRANCE                              UNCLE OF DEAN LOWRANCE, BROTHER OF HOMER LOWRANCE

 

DEAN LOWRANCE                          FATHER OF RON LOWRANCE, HUSBAND OF CARROL LOWRANCE AND SON OF

                                                              HOMER AND OSHIA LOWRANCE

 

JACK JOHNSON                               BROTHER OF CARROL LOWRANCE

 

BILL JOHNSON                                 BROTHER OF CARROL LOWRANCE

 

MAURICE ROACH                           COUSINE OF CARROL LOWRANCE, SON OF IRVIN AND ELIZABETH ROACH

 

RON LOWRANCE                             SON OF DEAN AND CARROL LOWRANCE

 

ROBERT HEADLEY                          HUSBAND OF PATTSY, SISTER OF CARROL LOWRANCE

 

JERRY LEWIS                                    COUSIN OF DEAN LOWRANCE, SON OF VERNON AND EDNA LEWIS

 

MARGARET JOHNSON                  COUSIN OF RON LOWRANCE, DAUGHTER OF MAXIE JOHNSON WHO WAS A BROTHER

                                                              OF CARROL LOWRANCE

 

JIM WILSON                                      FATHER OF ANNE LOWRANCE, RON LOWRANCE’S WIFE

 

MURIEL AMOS                                 COUSIN OF DEAN LOWRANCE

 

MELVIN AMOS                                 COUSIN OF DEAN LOWRANCE

 

ROBERT AMOS                                 COUSIN OF DEAN LOWRANCE

 

 

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