Mayer, Charlene 'Shorty' b. September 24, 1921 d. June 3, 1999 Professional Baseball Player. A utility player for seven seasons in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), she was one of the fastest runners in the circuit's history. Raised in coastal California, Charlene learned baseball from her father, earned notice as a singer, and worked as one of the first female DJs in the country. Joining the Marine Corps Reserve in 1944, she entertained the troops as a vocalist with the Dick Jurgens Orchestra then in 1946 tried out for the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford) Eagle Point National Cemetery, Eagle Point, Jackson County, Oregon, USA Plot: A1, 0, 28
Rickard, Gen. Roy V. b. October 27, 1891 d. January 7, 1975 United States Army Major General. Born in Osseo, Wisconsin, he was commissioned a Lieutenant of Infantry in 1917, serving various provost assignments, in the Panama Canal Zone and the Philippines. In 1940, he shifted to field of supply, as Colonel in command of the G-4 Section 9th Corps Area at the Presidio of San Francisco. During World War II, he participated in the Kiska operation in the Aleutians as a landing force commander. Promoted Brigadier General in 1944, he served as commander of the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Eagle Point National Cemetery, Eagle Point, Jackson County, Oregon, USA Plot: Sec.24 Grave 108
Tweed, George Ray b. July 2, 1902 d. January 16, 1989 World War II Military Figure. After the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, Japanese forces soon overran Guam Island in the Pacific. Tweed, then serving as a Navy chief radioman with several other U.S. personal slipped into the jungle rather than surrender. He became the only survivor after the others were captured and killed. He managed to elude Japanese soldiers for two years seven months, providing information to American forces that recaptured Guam Island in July 1944. His survival...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Eagle Point National Cemetery, Eagle Point, Jackson County, Oregon, USA Plot: Section 14, Site 170
b. September 24, 1921 d. June 3, 1999
