James Eugene Dowdy
1919-2014
Photo shared by Vickie Graves Jones
James Eugene "Gene" Dowdy was born December 14, 1919 at Mansfield, Sebastian Co. Ar. to
William Emmett & Daisy Mae Booth Dowdy. October 31, 1947 he married
Edna Juriene Heydenreich from Hackett Sebastian Co., Ar.
Gene enlisted in the US Army July 25, 1940 at Lubbock,
Texas. He says he had completed 4 years of high school and his civil
occupation is "farm hands, general farms". His enlistment paper says
he was assigned to the Quartermaster Corps. That is not mentioned in his
biography. According to his biographyy he served with the 1st Calvary Divison,
77th Infantry Division until December 5, 1945.
From April 1944 he has a Hospital Admission Card stating he was treated for
Meningitis, meningocofal and retured to duty. Nothing more is found about
his sevice.
James Eugene "Gene" Dowdy passed away April 19, 2014 at Roland,
Oklahoma. His burial was at Mount Zion Cemetery in Greenwood, Sebastian Co., Ar.
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ROLAND - James Eugene "Gene" Dowdy, 94, of Roland died Saturday, April 19, 2014,
in Roland. He was a bookkeeper for Hobbs Motor Co. and Finance, member of Zion
Missionary Baptist Church and Army veteran of World War II.
Funeral will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Roland with
burial at Mount Zion Cemetery in Greenwood under the direction of Agent Mallory
Martin Funeral Home in Muldrow.
He is survived by his wife, Edna; two daughters, Carolyn Davis and Valorie
Albertson, both of Roland; a son, James Dowdy of Sallisaw; six grandchildren;
and six great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Stuart, Steven, Paul, Jad and
Cody Davis and Andrew Thomas.
Viewing will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the
funeral home, where the family will visit with friends from 6-8 p.m.
Biography shared by Vickie Graves Jones
from Fighting Men of Arkansas
A liaison pilot was a World War II United States enlisted pilot, whose wings
bore an "L" in the center. They flew light single engine liaison aircraft.
Flight training consisted of about 60 hours of flying time and stressed such
procedures as short field landings and takeoffs over obstacles, low altitude
navigation, first aid, day and night reconnaissance, aerial photography, and
aircraft maintenance. Unarmored and unarmed-except perhaps for a .45 pistol
or .30 carbine-these men in 28 different squadrons flew low and slow with wheels,
skis, or floats. They flew varied and often hazardous missions in nearly every
theater-medical evacuation from forward areas; delivering munitions, blood plasma,
mail, and other supplies to front lines; ferrying personnel; flying photographic
or intelligence missions; serving as air observers for fighters or bombers; and \
other critical yet often unpublicized missions.
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