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• Ballew, Smith    b. January 21, 1902  d. May 2, 1984
  Singer, Actor and Bandleader. He worked with a number of bandleaders including Ted Weems, Hal Kemp, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. In 1929 he organized the Smith Ballew Orchestra, and in the same year he signed his first recording contract. He appeared in twenty four films, 1936-50 including "Under Arizona Skies" (1946) and "The Red Badge of Courage" (1951).
  Laurel Land Memorial Park, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
  Plot: Section 26 Lot 38
   
• Jones, Stormie Dawn    b. May 30, 1977  d. November 11, 1990
  Stormie, at the age of 6, was the first successful heart and liver transplant patient. The surgery was performed at Pittsburg Children’s Hospital by Dr's. Starzl and Bahnson on Feb. 14, 1984 after being sent from the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center in Dallas. The significance of this was the much needed proof for the research hypothesis that the liver controls the cholesterol found in the human body and that the diseases that are a result of high cholesterol could be controlled. Dr...[Read More]
  Laurel Land Memorial Park, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
   
• Pendleton, Charles F.    b. September 26, 1931  d. July 17, 1953
  Korean War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Born at Camden, Tennessee, he entered the US Army at Fort Worth, Texas and served as a Corporal in Company D, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. At Choo Gung-Dong, Korea, July 17, 1953, Corporal Pendleton was a machine gunner at a defensive position when they were attacked by a strong enemy force. He fired on the approaching troops, killing fifteen and disorganizing the remainder with grenades. He then removed his machine gun from...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Laurel Land Memorial Park, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
  Plot: Section C, Lot 31, Space 11
  GPS coordinates: 32.3875313, -97.2091827 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Puckett, Utley Jim    b. April 17, 1910  d. June 22, 1992
  Billiards Player. Better knowns as "U.J.," he was a colorful, road-hardened, pool hustler of the 1930s and '40s who found fame in the 1980s on CBS' 60 Minutes and later on ESPN's Legends of Pocket Billiards. He was born Utley Jim Puckett on April 17, 1910, in Prattsville, Arkansas, and survived an impoverished childhood after his father, a logging train engineer, died in a 1916 accident. According to U.J., "After that, while we still lived in Arkansas, we were hungry a lot of the time, I moved...[Read More] (Bio by: zenman)
  Laurel Land Memorial Park, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
   
• Smith, Gina Michelle   b. July 12, 1971  d. August 25, 2001
  Production Manager for Blackground Records. She was killed along with R&B singer Aaliyah in a plane crash in the Bahamas.
  Laurel Land Memorial Park, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
   
• Williams, Darrent    b. September 27, 1982  d. January 1, 2007
  Professional Football Player. He played cornerback for the Denver Broncos, having been picked by the team in the second round of the 2005 Draft after playing college ball at Oklahoma State University. Later that year he recorded his first career interception with them on November 13, 2005. On New Years Day 2007, he was killed in a drive-by shooting while riding in a limousine in Denver, after leaving a nightclub. He was 24 years old.
  Laurel Land Memorial Park, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
  Plot: Christ Our Son
   

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