World War II Johnson Co. Memorial
picture donated by Jean Peppers
They gave their today for our tomorrow
Heroes of America who gave their lives for our Freedom
Johnson County WWII Deaths
Names in bronze include an obit and/or bio. Please feel free to submit your family hero for inclusion on the War Memorial Pages. Pictures and Family memories are more than welcome.
* denotes that they are mentioned in the Home Front War News.
Those Of Johnson County who served in WW II
| Benjamin Harris Adams | Curnette Adams | Gradie Adams | Hardie Adams |
| James L Adams | Lee R. Adams | Miles Adams | Rollie Adams |
| Stuart H. Adams | Theodore R. Adams | Wallace J Adams | Walter Adams |
| Billie Adkins | Walter Arms | Hansel Arrowood | Fariel C. Bailey |
| Fred W. Bailey | Herschell D. Bailey | Willard Estill Bailey | Burlan Baldridge |
| Douglas Baldridge | Thourman Baldridge | Clarence Baldwin | Euel Baldwin |
| Curtis E. Baldwin | Lowell Baldwin | Earl Barker | Auther Bayes |
| Jessie Hay Bayes | Tollie Bayes | Wendell Bayes | Richard H. Benil |
| Acy Blair Jr. | Beecher Blair | Carl Blair | Dennis Blair |
| Earl Blair | Eugene Blair | Frank R. Blair | Hager Blair |
| Kenneth Blair | Kenneth H. Blair | Leucber Blair | Marshall Blair |
| Otto E Blair | Reenie Blair | Rutherford G. Blair | Wayne Blair |
| Willie H. Blair | Andy J. Blanton* | Claude Blanton | Gail F. Blanton* |
| Garuin Blanton | George Blanton Jr. | Hershall Blanton | Kendrick Blanton |
| Melvin Blanton | Ovid Blanton | Paris Blanton | Santford Brown Blanton |
| Windell Blanton | Arnold Blevins | Calvin C. Blevins | Charlie Blevins |
| Donald l Blevins | Elisha N Blevins | Francis N Blevins | Luke Blevins |
| James P. Boling | Arlen Booth | Freddie Borders | Hansford Boyd |
| Homer Boyd | Jimmie Bowen | Otis Bowling | Elzie Branham |
| Lester Branham | Luther Branham | Carmen Brooks | Wm. Thomas Brook |
| Clarence Brown | Daniel J Brown | Dewey Brown | |
| Eyrind Brown | James O. Brown | Jay E. Brown | Randall R. Brown |
| Sidney Brown | Willard Brown | Burford Burchett | Darrell Burchett |
| Earl D. Burchett | Johnie F. Burchett | Orville Burchett | Samuel J. Burchett* |
| Virgil Burchett | Billy Burga | Harold Burke | John Burke |
| Robert Ladell Bushby | Danny Butcher | Tommie Butcher | George W. Butler |
| Buel H. Cantrell | Clyde Cantrell | James E. Cantrell | Junior Cantrell |
| Mitchell Cantrell | Joseph E. Carey | John P Carroll | Orville Carter |
| Arnold Castle | Bosier Castle | Carl Castle | Carmel Castle |
| Carson Castle | Cecil Castle | Charles Castle | Clarence Castle |
| Curtis Castle | Dea Castle | Earl Castle | Ferd Castle |
| Gene Castle | James W. Castle | Masom Castle | Mitchell Castle* |
| Russell Castle | Raymond Castle | Richard Castle | Sam B. Castle |
| Sterling T. Castle | Ulysses Castle | Bruce Caudill | Dallas Caudill |
| Freddie Caudill | Hager Caudill | Pierce Caudill | Robert Caudill |
| Wm. A. Caudill | William J Caudill | John J. Centers | Overy O. Chandler |
| Harry G. Childers | James E. Childers | John Childers | Johnnie Childers |
| Virgil W. Childers | Millard Clark | Elmon M. Clay Jr | J. L. Clay |
| Walter Clay | Charles E. Cochran | Douglas Cochran | Lowell Cochran |
| Lowman Cochran | Winford Cochran | John L. Collier | Alfred Collins |
| Denman Collins | Haskel Collins | Powell Collins | John T. Colvin |
| Doris V Combs | Beecher Conley | Everett Conley | Henry T. Conley |
| James H. Conley | John F Conley | John Willis Conley | Maurice "Toad" Conley |
| Morris C. Conley | Orvil Conley | Robert M. Conley | Scott Conley |
| Tom Walter Conley | Verner Conley | Wendell W. Conley | Wm. H. Conley |
| Walter Walker Copley | James Cottle Jr. | Russell Coulson | Wiley W. Craft |
| Casside Crislip* | Paris F. Crislip | Redman Crislip | William H. Crislip |
| James E. Crum | Jimmie Crum | Junior Crum | Adam Curnette |
| Elsie L. Dale | Carl T. Daniel | Clarence Daniel | George Daniel |
| Hershall Daniel | Hubert Daniel | Isom P. Daniel | James D. Daniel |
| James W. Daniel | Joe Jack Daniel | Madge McDowell Daniel | Raymond Daniel |
| Rowland Daniel | Vivian Daniel | Winford P. Daniel | Bert Daniels |
| Erwin Daniels | Homer C. Daniels | James K. Daniels | Jeff Daniels Jr. |
| Orville Daniels | Walter E. Daniels | Wilmer R. Daniels | Dewey E. Davis |
| Frank W. Davis | George C. Davis | Russel Davis | Sterling E. Davis |
| Tecamsah P. Davis | Herman Deboard | Kennis Debord, Jr | Ernest De Long |
| Harry Delong | Rosewell Dennison | Walker Dennison Jr. | Dorman Dills |
| William Dills | Kicio Dimitri | Russell Dixon | Oscar T Dorton |
| John W. Duncan | Virgil Dutton | Greenville C. Ealey | Orville Ealey |
| Charles Estep | James Estep | Okie Estep | Sheridan Estep |
| Elzie F. Evans | Clete Fairchild | Elmer W. Fairchild | Frank Fairchild |
| James Fairchild | John C. Fairchild | William Fairchild | Bryant W. Fannin |
| George R. Fannin | Gerald C. Fannin | Granville C. Fannin | Con. C. Ferguson |
| Farrrel C. Ferguson | Paul E. Ferguson | William P. Ferguson | Homer Fitch |
| Norman Fitch | Paul V. Fitch | Selcie Fitch | Hershall Fitzpatrick |
| James C. Fitzpatrick | Luther Fitzpatrick | Ben Fletcher | Francis Ford |
| Billey Fraley Jr. | George Fraley | Alfred Frazier Jr | Cecil Frazier |
| Willie Franklin | Link Fyffe Jr | Frank G. Gambill | Hubert C. Gambill |
| John C. Gambill Jr. | William E. Garland | Herman G. Gillam | Hurston J. Gillam |
| Clifford R. Gillett | Virgil Goble | Edgel Golden | Thurman Graham |
| Arzie Green | Authur Green | Ernest E. Green | Thomas E. Greiner |
| Roy E. Gresham | Earl C. Griffith | George D. Grimm | Lionel Grimm |
| Milt Grimm | LeRoy Grimm | Charles A Gullett | Charles H. Gullett |
| Henry Gullett | John Gullett | Zollie Gullett | Herbert L. Hackney |
| Luther A. Hale | Barnie Hall | Donal Hall | Edgar Hall |
| Howard Hall | James Hall | Paris P. Hall | Robert Hall |
| Ellis B. Hamilton | Nelson C. Hamilton | Warren M. Hamilton | Robert Jackson Hampton |
| William H. Hampton | William H. Haney | Farrell Hannah | Myron T. Hannah |
| Bill Harmon | Elmer G. Harris Jr. | Leonard D. Harsh | James Hayes |
| William Hazelrigg | Hobart Helton | Rexford P. Helton | Orlen Hensley |
| Lawrence Hewlett | Dennie V. Hill | Robert Hill | Robert Hinkle Jr. |
| James M. Hitchcock | Willie Hitchcock | James Hite | Everett Hobson |
| Edd Holbrook | Harry Holbrook | Harold Holbrook | Herman Holbrook |
| Victor Honeycutt | Edvein T. Hood | Hershel Horn | Taylor Horne Jr. |
| Douglas Howard | Harlan Howard | Wiley E. Howard | Brownlee Hoskins |
| Richard Allen Hughes | Elby R. Huff | Frankie Huff | Harry Huff |
| Ballard Hyden Jr. | Edgar Hyden | Eugene Hyden | Charles W. Isaac |
| Branch Jackson | Ernie Jackson | Edward Jackson | Ladd Jasper |
| Robert P. Jasper | Melvin Jayne | William David Jayne* | Oliver Jenkins |
| Glen Jennings | Ira Jennings | James P. Jennings | Alfred Jones |
| John L. Jones | Walter H. Jones | Carlton E. Johnson | David Johnson |
| Ivan Johnson | James O. Johnson | John Johnson Jr. | Morris M. Johnson |
| Sherman Johnson | Robert B. Kazee | Sam Kennard | Estill Kimbler |
| Ochel Kimbler | Caruin Kimbleton | Wallace W. King | Dimitri Kocio |
| Burdette " B.B." Kretzer | James W. Lawson | Edwin Lackey | Alger N. LeMaster |
| Calvin Lemaster | Charles R. Lemaster | Earlie Lemaster | Edgel Lemaster |
| Emerel H. Lemaster | James C. Lemaster | James L. Lemaster | Jesse F. Lemaster |
| John B. Lemaster | Loran C. Lemaster | Ova Lemaster | Raleigh K. Lemaster |
| Carl R. Leslie | Carit Lester | Denvil Lewis | Francis M. Lilly |
| Harry F. Ltteral | Jesse H. Lovely | Lloyd Lyon | Arville Lyons |
| Kerlin Lyons | Roger Lyons | Jack M. Lynch | |
| Arlie McAllister | Emory McCarty | Hager E. McCarty | Herbert McCarty |
| Joe K. McCarty | Alphonza McCloud Jr. | Roger H. McClure | Earl W. McDowell |
| Everett McDowell | Clarence P. McFaddin | Homer McFaddin | Nellie B. McFaddin |
| Charles L. McKenzie | Claude L. McKenzie | Cline L. McKenzie | Dara McKenzie |
| Guy McKenzie | Isaac D. McKenzie | Jesse McKenzie | Kenneth McKenzie |
| Lonnie B. McKenzie | Virgil P. McKenzie | Paul A Marsh | Carl V. Martin |
| Drew J. Martin | Joseph Mather | Clyde Gordon May | James F. May |
| Edd Mayse | Bobby Meade* | Edgar Meade | Guy B. Meade |
| Howard l. Meade | James C. Meade | James K. Meade | Pearl J Meade |
| Robert E. Meade | Roby Meade | Redford Meadows | Vencil Meadows |
| Albridge Meek | Celsus G. Meek | Donis Meek | Elias Meek Jr |
| Estill Meek | Joseph A. Meek | Orville Meek | Oscar Meek |
| Thurmand Meek | Woodrow Meek | Carl Melvin | Charles Melvin* |
| Monterville Miles | Harry E. Miller | Earl Mollette* | Isaac Mollette |
| Henry J. Mollette | John R. Mollette | Noah Mollette* | Paul Mollette* |
| Virgil L. Mollett | A. Jefferson Moon | Janis Moore | Clisby C. Moxley |
| Bobby E. M. Mullins* | Murl J. Mullins | Pearl F. Mullins | Max Murphey |
| Paul Murray | Arvin Music | Eliza Music | Homer Music |
| John H. Music | John M. Music | Maurice J Music | Orcil A. Music |
| Pasco Music | Theodore R. Music | Thomas J. Music | William J. Music |
| Joe M. Neccessary | James E. Nelson | Vencil Nelson | Martin Newberry |
| James T. Newman | Donald Nichols | Edward Nichols | |
| Leo C. Nickell | Wendell Nickell | Leon Nietubic | |
| James L. Norman | Ernest O'Brian | Charles E. O'Bryan | Earl G. O'Bryan |
| Herschel B. O'Bryan | James M. O'Bryan | Thurman O'Bryan | Harkless O'Bryant |
| Job P. Ogletree | Forrest N. Oney | Hugh Oppenheimer | Ralph Oppenheimer Jr |
| Corbit Owens | Edgar Owens | Wendell Osborn | Frank Osborne |
| Vonnie Osborne | Virgil D. Pack | Fred Pack | Gaylord Pack |
| Herbert Pack | Herman Pack | Herschell Pack | James A. Pack |
| Joe Pack Jr. | Oval D. Pack | Paul Pack | Rudolph Pack |
| Russell Pack | James H. Page | Otis Page* | Clarence I. Paige |
| Richard P. Painter | Maynard U Parker | Dean M. Parrish* | Frank Patrick |
| William R. Patrick | Carroll L. Pelphrey | Charles Pelphrey | Frank S. Pelphrey |
| Grant Pelphrey | Ova E. Pelphrey | Richard L. Pelphrey | William Pelphrey |
| William H. Pelphrey | William R. Pelphrey | Bill Pendleton | Chad Penix |
| Orville Penix | James Pennington | Rencie Pennington | John W. Perkins |
| Leo Perkowski | Stanley Perkowski | William Perkowski | King D. Pettrey |
| William P. Pettrey | Carl L. Phelps | Denzil Phelps | Douglas Phelps |
| Edwin P. Phelps | Eugene Phelps | Francis E. Phelps | James P. Phelps |
| Jay Phelps | Sammy Phelps Jr. | Thomas R. Phelps | Arvile G. Phillips |
| Eugene A. Phillips | Luster Phipps | James A. Pigg | James O Pigg |
| Joe Pigg | Alvin G. Picklesimer | Chester Picklesimer | Cluster C. Picklesimer |
| Elbert Picklesimer | Francis M. Picklesimer | Gordon Picklesimer | John H. Picklesimer |
| Kermit L. Picklesimer | Llewellyn G. Picklesimer | Paris Picklesimer | Payne W. Picklesimer |
| Ralph Picklesimer | Willard D. Picklesimer | Willie E. Picklesimer | Harold D. Pinkerton |
| Vincent D. Plummer | Arthur E. Pope | Arbie L. Porter Jr. | Vernice Porter |
| William H. Potter Jr. | James M. Powers | Wallace O. Powers | Ernest M. Prater |
| James W. Prater | Anna Louise Preston | Charles L. Preston | Clifford Preston* |
| Clyde C. Preston | D. S. Preston | Dallas W. Preston | Earl Preston |
| Ernest Neville Preston | Euel Preston | Fred W. Preston | George R. Preston |
| Hammie Price | Harold L. Preston | Harvey Preston | Herbert L. Preston |
| Homer Preston | Hoy M. Preston | Jack W. Preston | James Preston |
| James H. Preston | James L. Preston | James Turner Preston | James Willard Preston |
| Lafayette Preston | Leon H. Preston* | Lester H. Preston | Luther Preston |
| Milton Preston | Ocenious Preston | Ochel Preston | Paul R. Preston |
| Ray T. Preston | Richard H. Preston | Robert A. Preston | Robert E. Preston |
| Rosco C. Preston | Rosco E. Preston | Roy Preston | Sam Preston |
| Thomas H. Preston | W. L. Preston | Wayne D. Preston | William J. Preston Jr. |
| Willard Preston | Willie Preston Jr. | Cecil E. Price | Charles A. Price |
| Charles M. Price | Harry Price | John L. Price | Paul B. Price |
| William C. Price | William M. Price | Winifred S. Price Jr. | John A. Pruitt |
| James H. Puckett | Lacy E. Puckett | Lonza Puckett | |
| Lester Ramey | John Franklin Ramey Sr. | ||
| Lenzie Ratliff | Langley Ratliff | Matthew Ratliff | Ora M. Rice* |
| James H. Roberts | Jesse Roberts | Pauline Roberts | Thomas Roberts |
| Earl Robinson | Harold Ross | Noah Salyers | Raleigh Salyer |
| Thelma Sester | Erza T. Sherman* | Glen Siler* | Winfrey Sisco |
| William Harrison Skaggs | Arbie Spears | Dorothy Louise Stewart | Ann Ruth Wills Tuzzy |
| Carl Thomas Watson | Frank Allan Wells* | Robert Louis Wilcox* | Eugene Williams* |
| Frank H Witten | Herbert "Pete" Witten | James Witten | Ervin Wright |
Read the War News as it appeared in the Paintsville Herald
Our Area Veterans
The National World War II Memorial will be the first national memorial dedicated to all who served during World War II. The memorial, which will be established by the American Battle Monuments Commission, will honor all military veterans of the war, the citizens on the home front, the nation at large, and the high moral purpose and idealism that motivated the nation's call to arms.
Learn More about the Memorial and how you can help.
It is with much thanks to all our contributors that this site is growing so well. Special Thanks to Walter Preston and Darrell Music who have worked to provide this site with great hints, insight, and a whole lot of material. Johnson county researchers are lucky to have such dedicated researchers who are willing to share the history of the past.
Darrell has been very instrumental in helping to filling the memorial with Obits and bios from Newspaper transcription.