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Submitted: 8/17/21 • Approved: 8/18/21 • Last Updated: 8/21/21 • R447988-G0-S3
Texas
RADIOMAN SENIOR CHIEF PETTY OFFICER US Navy
Korea
May 8, 1933-April 23, 1966
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: James Edward Reeves
Date of Birth: 8 May 1933
Gender: Male
Birth County: Hutchinson
Father's Name: Edward Reeves
Mother's Name: Bessie Irene McDonald
Roll Number: 1933_0006
Funeral services for James E. Reeves, RMC-A, United States Navy, are pending with Minton Mortuary. Reeves died of natural causes in San Diego, Calif., Naval Hospital Saturday.
Born in Borger May 8, 1933, Reeves attended Borger schools, and graduated from Stinnett High School.
The 32-year-old sailor enlisted in the U.S. Navy at Albuquerque, N.M., Dec. 27, 1951. He was stationed at Norfolk, Va., aboard the U.S.S. Chukawan in 1963. Prior to that he was stationed in Ireland for four years.
He saw active duty in the Korean conflict, serving aboard the heavy cruiser, USS Helena. He was radioman First Class.
Surviving are his wife, Sophie, and son, Mike, of the home in California; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Reeves, 502 Short Street; sisters, Wilma Joy Roundtree, California, Cheryl Lynn Reeves, Borger; grandmother, Mrs. Lillie Hankins of Borger.
(Published in Borger News Herald, April 25, 1966)
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Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: James Edward Reeves
Date of Birth: 8 May 1933
Gender: Male
Birth County: Hutchinson
Father's name: Edward Reeves
Mother's name: Bessie Irene McDonald
Roll Number: 1933_0006
California, Death Index, 1940-1997
Name: James E Reeves
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 8 May 1933
Death Date: 23 Apr 1966
Death Place: San Diego
Mother's Maiden Name: McDonald
Contributed on 8/17/21
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