Clare Alexander Lovelace Jr. was born in Muskogee 17 Oct 1918. He was the son of Clare Alexander Lovelace Sr. and Pearl McCleery Lovelace. Both of his parents were in their mid thirties, and he was their only child. He grew up in Muskogee at 1023 Boston, and attended West Junior High and graduated from Muskogee Central High School in 1935. He attended college for four year before joining the Army Air Corp.
While he was attending Oklahoma University he met Clarice Marvin, and they married in 1942. He graduated from the Boeing Technical Aircraft school in Seattle, Washington, and he and Clarice kept a home in Wichita, Kansas while he was away in WWII. The Lovelace family owned Chick furniture store in Muskogee and Clare went by the nickname "Chick", and this is the name Clarice always called him. He was the flight engineer on the B-29 called "Slic Chic". His squadron was stationed in Guam, and this was where they flew from for bombing missions over Japan. On May 29, 1945 the "Slic Chic" was hit by flack and went down: P46 Ditch (31°49'N - 142°08'E). Of the eleven men on the plane only seven survived the hit by the Japanese.
Chick was considered missing for six months, and his body was never recovered. Four and a half months after his plane was shot down, Clarice gave birth to his baby girl, Alexis Clare Lovelace, on 10 Oct 1945. His death was a hard on his family, and his father had a stoke and died three years later. His mother went on to be president of her Gold Star Mothers Chapter. Clarice Marvin Lovelace never remarried and raised her daughter with help from her mother and mother-in-law.
Clarice passed away from breast cancer at age 45, and she bravely accepted her own death knowing through her deep faith that she would be with her beloved Chick Lovelace again.
Bio written by daughter Alexis Lovelace Nelson
While he was attending Oklahoma University he met Clarice Marvin, and they married in 1942. He graduated from the Boeing Technical Aircraft school in Seattle, Washington, and he and Clarice kept a home in Wichita, Kansas while he was away in WWII. The Lovelace family owned Chick furniture store in Muskogee and Clare went by the nickname "Chick", and this is the name Clarice always called him. He was the flight engineer on the B-29 called "Slic Chic". His squadron was stationed in Guam, and this was where they flew from for bombing missions over Japan. On May 29, 1945 the "Slic Chic" was hit by flack and went down: P46 Ditch (31°49'N - 142°08'E). Of the eleven men on the plane only seven survived the hit by the Japanese.
Chick was considered missing for six months, and his body was never recovered. Four and a half months after his plane was shot down, Clarice gave birth to his baby girl, Alexis Clare Lovelace, on 10 Oct 1945. His death was a hard on his family, and his father had a stoke and died three years later. His mother went on to be president of her Gold Star Mothers Chapter. Clarice Marvin Lovelace never remarried and raised her daughter with help from her mother and mother-in-law.
Clarice passed away from breast cancer at age 45, and she bravely accepted her own death knowing through her deep faith that she would be with her beloved Chick Lovelace again.
Bio written by daughter Alexis Lovelace Nelson
Clare Alexander Lovelace Jr. was born in Muskogee 17 Oct 1918. He was the son of Clare Alexander Lovelace Sr. and Pearl McCleery Lovelace. Both of his parents were in their mid thirties, and he was their only child. He grew up in Muskogee at 1023 Boston, and attended West Junior High and graduated from Muskogee Central High School in 1935. He attended college for four year before joining the Army Air Corp.
While he was attending Oklahoma University he met Clarice Marvin, and they married in 1942. He graduated from the Boeing Technical Aircraft school in Seattle, Washington, and he and Clarice kept a home in Wichita, Kansas while he was away in WWII. The Lovelace family owned Chick furniture store in Muskogee and Clare went by the nickname "Chick", and this is the name Clarice always called him. He was the flight engineer on the B-29 called "Slic Chic". His squadron was stationed in Guam, and this was where they flew from for bombing missions over Japan. On May 29, 1945 the "Slic Chic" was hit by flack and went down: P46 Ditch (31°49'N - 142°08'E). Of the eleven men on the plane only seven survived the hit by the Japanese.
Chick was considered missing for six months, and his body was never recovered. Four and a half months after his plane was shot down, Clarice gave birth to his baby girl, Alexis Clare Lovelace, on 10 Oct 1945. His death was a hard on his family, and his father had a stoke and died three years later. His mother went on to be president of her Gold Star Mothers Chapter. Clarice Marvin Lovelace never remarried and raised her daughter with help from her mother and mother-in-law.
Clarice passed away from breast cancer at age 45, and she bravely accepted her own death knowing through her deep faith that she would be with her beloved Chick Lovelace again.
Bio written by daughter Alexis Lovelace Nelson
While he was attending Oklahoma University he met Clarice Marvin, and they married in 1942. He graduated from the Boeing Technical Aircraft school in Seattle, Washington, and he and Clarice kept a home in Wichita, Kansas while he was away in WWII. The Lovelace family owned Chick furniture store in Muskogee and Clare went by the nickname "Chick", and this is the name Clarice always called him. He was the flight engineer on the B-29 called "Slic Chic". His squadron was stationed in Guam, and this was where they flew from for bombing missions over Japan. On May 29, 1945 the "Slic Chic" was hit by flack and went down: P46 Ditch (31°49'N - 142°08'E). Of the eleven men on the plane only seven survived the hit by the Japanese.
Chick was considered missing for six months, and his body was never recovered. Four and a half months after his plane was shot down, Clarice gave birth to his baby girl, Alexis Clare Lovelace, on 10 Oct 1945. His death was a hard on his family, and his father had a stoke and died three years later. His mother went on to be president of her Gold Star Mothers Chapter. Clarice Marvin Lovelace never remarried and raised her daughter with help from her mother and mother-in-law.
Clarice passed away from breast cancer at age 45, and she bravely accepted her own death knowing through her deep faith that she would be with her beloved Chick Lovelace again.
Bio written by daughter Alexis Lovelace Nelson
Inscription
MSGT USAAF
WORLD WAR II
KIA
PH AM
OUR BELOVED CHICK
Gravesite Details
Entered the service from Oklahoma.
