Milton Chester Pickens was killed in "THE LINE OF DUTY DURING WORLD WAR 11". I didn't know him but his aunt was the secretary at Memorial Elementary School in Houston, Texas where I was a student. This school is still being used. It is located at 6401 Arnot Street. The Principal of the school was a Mr. D. W. Donovan, and when he received word about Milton loosing his life fighting, he was so moved that he set out to plant a tree on the school grounds in honor of him. A tree was purchased and a ceremony was planned. It took place just before school was to be let out for the summer. All the classes and teachers were turned out and was ask to form on the school grounds near the spot that was chosen near the road bed of Arnot. I was in the 5th grade of this school. We were all excited about this event and took it very seriously. We witness the planting of the tree and a speech given by Mr. Donovan.
I was with Mrs. Pickens daughter-in-law and she was telling me about her husbands cousin being killed in the war and it brought to my mine about the tree being dedicated to him. I though it would be fitting to add this to the space for the bio.
Milton lived to be 20 years, 5 months and 7 days old.
May God Bless this young Hero's memory. He died that our country would be free.
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Ensign Pickens died in a plane crash during a training flight from Glenview Naval Air Base in Glenview, Illinois. His plane went down in Deerfield, Illinois; later the Deerfield Public Library would be constructed on the spot and named in honor of Ensign Pickens. The library was rededicated to him in 2004 and again in 2013.
Submitted by James Boyd (J.B.) Haney,
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***I would like to thank A Find A Grave ID (Unknown) for creating this memorial in addition to adding the gravesite photo to it***
***I would like to thank JCF Find A Grave ID 47174419 for linking his mother to this memorial***
I was with Mrs. Pickens daughter-in-law and she was telling me about her husbands cousin being killed in the war and it brought to my mine about the tree being dedicated to him. I though it would be fitting to add this to the space for the bio.
Milton lived to be 20 years, 5 months and 7 days old.
May God Bless this young Hero's memory. He died that our country would be free.
~~~~~~~~~~
Ensign Pickens died in a plane crash during a training flight from Glenview Naval Air Base in Glenview, Illinois. His plane went down in Deerfield, Illinois; later the Deerfield Public Library would be constructed on the spot and named in honor of Ensign Pickens. The library was rededicated to him in 2004 and again in 2013.
Submitted by James Boyd (J.B.) Haney,
**************************************************
***I would like to thank A Find A Grave ID (Unknown) for creating this memorial in addition to adding the gravesite photo to it***
***I would like to thank JCF Find A Grave ID 47174419 for linking his mother to this memorial***
Milton Chester Pickens was killed in "THE LINE OF DUTY DURING WORLD WAR 11". I didn't know him but his aunt was the secretary at Memorial Elementary School in Houston, Texas where I was a student. This school is still being used. It is located at 6401 Arnot Street. The Principal of the school was a Mr. D. W. Donovan, and when he received word about Milton loosing his life fighting, he was so moved that he set out to plant a tree on the school grounds in honor of him. A tree was purchased and a ceremony was planned. It took place just before school was to be let out for the summer. All the classes and teachers were turned out and was ask to form on the school grounds near the spot that was chosen near the road bed of Arnot. I was in the 5th grade of this school. We were all excited about this event and took it very seriously. We witness the planting of the tree and a speech given by Mr. Donovan.
I was with Mrs. Pickens daughter-in-law and she was telling me about her husbands cousin being killed in the war and it brought to my mine about the tree being dedicated to him. I though it would be fitting to add this to the space for the bio.
Milton lived to be 20 years, 5 months and 7 days old.
May God Bless this young Hero's memory. He died that our country would be free.
~~~~~~~~~~
Ensign Pickens died in a plane crash during a training flight from Glenview Naval Air Base in Glenview, Illinois. His plane went down in Deerfield, Illinois; later the Deerfield Public Library would be constructed on the spot and named in honor of Ensign Pickens. The library was rededicated to him in 2004 and again in 2013.
Submitted by James Boyd (J.B.) Haney,
**************************************************
***I would like to thank A Find A Grave ID (Unknown) for creating this memorial in addition to adding the gravesite photo to it***
***I would like to thank JCF Find A Grave ID 47174419 for linking his mother to this memorial***
I was with Mrs. Pickens daughter-in-law and she was telling me about her husbands cousin being killed in the war and it brought to my mine about the tree being dedicated to him. I though it would be fitting to add this to the space for the bio.
Milton lived to be 20 years, 5 months and 7 days old.
May God Bless this young Hero's memory. He died that our country would be free.
~~~~~~~~~~
Ensign Pickens died in a plane crash during a training flight from Glenview Naval Air Base in Glenview, Illinois. His plane went down in Deerfield, Illinois; later the Deerfield Public Library would be constructed on the spot and named in honor of Ensign Pickens. The library was rededicated to him in 2004 and again in 2013.
Submitted by James Boyd (J.B.) Haney,
**************************************************
***I would like to thank A Find A Grave ID (Unknown) for creating this memorial in addition to adding the gravesite photo to it***
***I would like to thank JCF Find A Grave ID 47174419 for linking his mother to this memorial***
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MILTON C. PICKENS
TEXAS
ENSIGN U. S. N. R.
DEC. 19, 1923----MAY 26, 1944
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