MAJOR US ARMY, WORLD WAR II, KOREA
CRANSTON R. 'RIP' COLEMAN, 79, of Memphis, retired Army major, died of heart failure Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. Canale Funeral Directors has charge. He was a member of Christ United Methodist Church, was a former member and manager of the Memphis Gun Club, and past president, vice president and treasurer of Memphis Amateur Retriever Club. He also worked with the Board of Education and Goldsmith's after his retirement from the military. Mr. Coleman, the husband of Anna Laura Smith Coleman, also leaves a daughter, Jennifer C. Treadwell of Germantown; two sons, Cranston R. Coleman Jr. of Niceville, Fla., and Michael L. Coleman of Belleville, Ill., five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to St. Mary's Episcopal School Scholarship Fund or St. George's Episcopal Church. (Published in The Commercial Appeal on January 30, 1997)
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946:
Name: Cranston R Coleman
Birth Year: 1917
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Missouri
State of Residence: Missouri
County or City: Cole
Enlistment Date: 11 Aug 1941
Branch: Quartermaster Corps
Branch Code: Quartermaster Corps
Grade: First Sergeant
Grade Code: First Sergeant
Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Source: National Guard in Federal Service, within 3 months of Discharge
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Semiskilled chauffeurs and drivers, bus, taxi, truck, and tractor
Marital Status: Single, with dependents
Height: 68
Weight: 150
CRANSTON R. 'RIP' COLEMAN, 79, of Memphis, retired Army major, died of heart failure Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. Canale Funeral Directors has charge. He was a member of Christ United Methodist Church, was a former member and manager of the Memphis Gun Club, and past president, vice president and treasurer of Memphis Amateur Retriever Club. He also worked with the Board of Education and Goldsmith's after his retirement from the military. Mr. Coleman, the husband of Anna Laura Smith Coleman, also leaves a daughter, Jennifer C. Treadwell of Germantown; two sons, Cranston R. Coleman Jr. of Niceville, Fla., and Michael L. Coleman of Belleville, Ill., five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to St. Mary's Episcopal School Scholarship Fund or St. George's Episcopal Church. (Published in The Commercial Appeal on January 30, 1997)
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946:
Name: Cranston R Coleman
Birth Year: 1917
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Missouri
State of Residence: Missouri
County or City: Cole
Enlistment Date: 11 Aug 1941
Branch: Quartermaster Corps
Branch Code: Quartermaster Corps
Grade: First Sergeant
Grade Code: First Sergeant
Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Source: National Guard in Federal Service, within 3 months of Discharge
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Semiskilled chauffeurs and drivers, bus, taxi, truck, and tractor
Marital Status: Single, with dependents
Height: 68
Weight: 150
MAJOR US ARMY, WORLD WAR II, KOREA
CRANSTON R. 'RIP' COLEMAN, 79, of Memphis, retired Army major, died of heart failure Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. Canale Funeral Directors has charge. He was a member of Christ United Methodist Church, was a former member and manager of the Memphis Gun Club, and past president, vice president and treasurer of Memphis Amateur Retriever Club. He also worked with the Board of Education and Goldsmith's after his retirement from the military. Mr. Coleman, the husband of Anna Laura Smith Coleman, also leaves a daughter, Jennifer C. Treadwell of Germantown; two sons, Cranston R. Coleman Jr. of Niceville, Fla., and Michael L. Coleman of Belleville, Ill., five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to St. Mary's Episcopal School Scholarship Fund or St. George's Episcopal Church. (Published in The Commercial Appeal on January 30, 1997)
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946:
Name: Cranston R Coleman
Birth Year: 1917
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Missouri
State of Residence: Missouri
County or City: Cole
Enlistment Date: 11 Aug 1941
Branch: Quartermaster Corps
Branch Code: Quartermaster Corps
Grade: First Sergeant
Grade Code: First Sergeant
Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Source: National Guard in Federal Service, within 3 months of Discharge
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Semiskilled chauffeurs and drivers, bus, taxi, truck, and tractor
Marital Status: Single, with dependents
Height: 68
Weight: 150
CRANSTON R. 'RIP' COLEMAN, 79, of Memphis, retired Army major, died of heart failure Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. Canale Funeral Directors has charge. He was a member of Christ United Methodist Church, was a former member and manager of the Memphis Gun Club, and past president, vice president and treasurer of Memphis Amateur Retriever Club. He also worked with the Board of Education and Goldsmith's after his retirement from the military. Mr. Coleman, the husband of Anna Laura Smith Coleman, also leaves a daughter, Jennifer C. Treadwell of Germantown; two sons, Cranston R. Coleman Jr. of Niceville, Fla., and Michael L. Coleman of Belleville, Ill., five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to St. Mary's Episcopal School Scholarship Fund or St. George's Episcopal Church. (Published in The Commercial Appeal on January 30, 1997)
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946:
Name: Cranston R Coleman
Birth Year: 1917
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Missouri
State of Residence: Missouri
County or City: Cole
Enlistment Date: 11 Aug 1941
Branch: Quartermaster Corps
Branch Code: Quartermaster Corps
Grade: First Sergeant
Grade Code: First Sergeant
Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Source: National Guard in Federal Service, within 3 months of Discharge
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Semiskilled chauffeurs and drivers, bus, taxi, truck, and tractor
Marital Status: Single, with dependents
Height: 68
Weight: 150
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