George enlisted in the Army National Guard on 09/16/1940. The Army Enlistment Records show his education level as grammar school and his civilian profession as paperhanger.
While stationed at Camp Forest in Tennessee, he met Madaline Elizabeth Partin at a USO dance. They were married in Coffee County TN on January 23, 1943.
According to the records of Purple Heart recipients. he was wounded on October 11, 1944, a month before his eldest child was born.
A few minutes before his death, he was practicing his part in a Masonic ceremony. He was a member of the Scottish Rite group that met in Rutland (now part of Macon). His youngest child, 11 at the time, remembered the scheduled event as George's induction to "the highest degree" of Masonry. If correct, he died as a member of the 32nd degree. Funeral procession accounts in the Macon Telegraph indicated that he was indeed 32nd, about to become 33rd, degree.
While stationed at Camp Forest in Tennessee, he met Madaline Elizabeth Partin at a USO dance. They were married in Coffee County TN on January 23, 1943.
According to the records of Purple Heart recipients. he was wounded on October 11, 1944, a month before his eldest child was born.
A few minutes before his death, he was practicing his part in a Masonic ceremony. He was a member of the Scottish Rite group that met in Rutland (now part of Macon). His youngest child, 11 at the time, remembered the scheduled event as George's induction to "the highest degree" of Masonry. If correct, he died as a member of the 32nd degree. Funeral procession accounts in the Macon Telegraph indicated that he was indeed 32nd, about to become 33rd, degree.
George enlisted in the Army National Guard on 09/16/1940. The Army Enlistment Records show his education level as grammar school and his civilian profession as paperhanger.
While stationed at Camp Forest in Tennessee, he met Madaline Elizabeth Partin at a USO dance. They were married in Coffee County TN on January 23, 1943.
According to the records of Purple Heart recipients. he was wounded on October 11, 1944, a month before his eldest child was born.
A few minutes before his death, he was practicing his part in a Masonic ceremony. He was a member of the Scottish Rite group that met in Rutland (now part of Macon). His youngest child, 11 at the time, remembered the scheduled event as George's induction to "the highest degree" of Masonry. If correct, he died as a member of the 32nd degree. Funeral procession accounts in the Macon Telegraph indicated that he was indeed 32nd, about to become 33rd, degree.
While stationed at Camp Forest in Tennessee, he met Madaline Elizabeth Partin at a USO dance. They were married in Coffee County TN on January 23, 1943.
According to the records of Purple Heart recipients. he was wounded on October 11, 1944, a month before his eldest child was born.
A few minutes before his death, he was practicing his part in a Masonic ceremony. He was a member of the Scottish Rite group that met in Rutland (now part of Macon). His youngest child, 11 at the time, remembered the scheduled event as George's induction to "the highest degree" of Masonry. If correct, he died as a member of the 32nd degree. Funeral procession accounts in the Macon Telegraph indicated that he was indeed 32nd, about to become 33rd, degree.
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