Born in the Caldwell Community of Orange County. After his mother died in 1927, he and his twin brother went to live with their uncle and aunt; Samuel T. and Della Williams Latta in Hillsboro. After their father re-married they continued to split there time between Caldwell and Hillsborough. Both twins entered the army in the fall of 1942 and did training in Arkansas and nothern California, they were split up before going overseas, Harlton to Eurpoe and Carlton to Burma. He served in the 209th Combat Engineers, see unit history here: http://www.cbi-history.com/part_vi_209th_eng_combat_bn.html
He saw heavy combat, and while not wounded, spent several months in hospitals in both India and the U.S. getting over the malaria, and yellow jaundice he contracted in the jungles of Burma.
After the war he returned to Hillsboro, and with his brother resumed working the dairy that they had started while in high school. In 1952 they closed the dairy and he embarked on a carrer in insurance, finaly retiring from Southern Life Ins. Co., in 1982.
In 1947 he married Nancy E. Brown of Hillsboro, who along with thier children; Anne Howard McKee Purcell (Edmund W.) Henry Carlton McKee, Jr (Sara Fountain) and their grandchildren; Matthew Edmund Purcell (Emily Crabtree), Patrick Thomas Purcell, Andrew David Purcell, Mary Catherine Louise McKee, and Henry Carlton McKee, III survived.
He saw heavy combat, and while not wounded, spent several months in hospitals in both India and the U.S. getting over the malaria, and yellow jaundice he contracted in the jungles of Burma.
After the war he returned to Hillsboro, and with his brother resumed working the dairy that they had started while in high school. In 1952 they closed the dairy and he embarked on a carrer in insurance, finaly retiring from Southern Life Ins. Co., in 1982.
In 1947 he married Nancy E. Brown of Hillsboro, who along with thier children; Anne Howard McKee Purcell (Edmund W.) Henry Carlton McKee, Jr (Sara Fountain) and their grandchildren; Matthew Edmund Purcell (Emily Crabtree), Patrick Thomas Purcell, Andrew David Purcell, Mary Catherine Louise McKee, and Henry Carlton McKee, III survived.
Born in the Caldwell Community of Orange County. After his mother died in 1927, he and his twin brother went to live with their uncle and aunt; Samuel T. and Della Williams Latta in Hillsboro. After their father re-married they continued to split there time between Caldwell and Hillsborough. Both twins entered the army in the fall of 1942 and did training in Arkansas and nothern California, they were split up before going overseas, Harlton to Eurpoe and Carlton to Burma. He served in the 209th Combat Engineers, see unit history here: http://www.cbi-history.com/part_vi_209th_eng_combat_bn.html
He saw heavy combat, and while not wounded, spent several months in hospitals in both India and the U.S. getting over the malaria, and yellow jaundice he contracted in the jungles of Burma.
After the war he returned to Hillsboro, and with his brother resumed working the dairy that they had started while in high school. In 1952 they closed the dairy and he embarked on a carrer in insurance, finaly retiring from Southern Life Ins. Co., in 1982.
In 1947 he married Nancy E. Brown of Hillsboro, who along with thier children; Anne Howard McKee Purcell (Edmund W.) Henry Carlton McKee, Jr (Sara Fountain) and their grandchildren; Matthew Edmund Purcell (Emily Crabtree), Patrick Thomas Purcell, Andrew David Purcell, Mary Catherine Louise McKee, and Henry Carlton McKee, III survived.
He saw heavy combat, and while not wounded, spent several months in hospitals in both India and the U.S. getting over the malaria, and yellow jaundice he contracted in the jungles of Burma.
After the war he returned to Hillsboro, and with his brother resumed working the dairy that they had started while in high school. In 1952 they closed the dairy and he embarked on a carrer in insurance, finaly retiring from Southern Life Ins. Co., in 1982.
In 1947 he married Nancy E. Brown of Hillsboro, who along with thier children; Anne Howard McKee Purcell (Edmund W.) Henry Carlton McKee, Jr (Sara Fountain) and their grandchildren; Matthew Edmund Purcell (Emily Crabtree), Patrick Thomas Purcell, Andrew David Purcell, Mary Catherine Louise McKee, and Henry Carlton McKee, III survived.
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