Voices from the Korean War - Douglas Rice [209]
He went to work for the Civil Service and retired in 1985 as a G-11 Training Surpervisor.
He and his wife live in Lawton, Oklahoma.
Jack Anderson – Jack retired from the Army with twenty-four years of active service. He retired with the rank of MSGT. After retiring, he took a job as a firefighter, which he did for fifteen years.
He and his wife Betty live in Everett, Washington. They have two sons and one daughter.
Dillon Staas – After leaving the Army, Dillon attended college for two years. He went to work at a shop until he landed a job with the postal service. There he held the positions of clerk, clerk foreman, route examiner, carrier foreman, and Postmaster of a small town post office, before retiring.
He and his wife have been married fifty-eight years and have eight children. They live in Lima, Ohio.
Dillon enjoys writing poems, of which some are in various publications.
Lloyd Paul Summers – After being discharged from the USMC, Paul returned home to Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. Here he went to work at the Letterkenny Army Depot. After working for thirty-seven and a half years, he retired in 1984.
His wife Doris passed away in 2001. They have three daughters.
He still resides in Waynesboro and is active in his church.
Robert “BJ” Johnson – A month after returning from Korea, he and Arlee Curtice were married. He worked for thirty-seven years in the wholesale automotive industry. Then he worked in the National Parks for eleven years. His last five years of work was in the tourist industry.
After retiring, he and Arlee moved to Meza, Arizona, where they live today.
Carroll Everist – After leaving the Army, Carroll attended Hamilton School of Commerce in his hometown of Mason City, Iowa. He became a bookkeeper. However, he only did this for a short time before re-enlisting on February 28, 1954. He was sent to cook school at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Due to being an ex-POW, the Army wasn’t able to send him overseas, so they put him on medical retirement.
After two years of being a hotel cook, he became a door-to-door insurance salesman. However, he would later become an ordained minister, where he pastored in Indiana, Illinois, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.
He and his wife Dixie make their home in Mulvane, Kansas. They have three daughters and one son.
Joseph Lloyd Wosser, Jr. - In August of 1944, he married MaryHelen Brother. In 1963, he retired from the USMC as a Lt. Colonel. His last duty was in the Office of Naval Research, where he worked on some of the first technical papers on the GEM (Ground Effect Machine), or the hovercraft.
He and MaryHelen live in Lincoln, California. They have four daughters.
Eric Hanney – Eric passed away on August 22, 2010 in Thousand Oaks, California.
Tom Enos – In January of 1952, Tom was released from active duty from the Marine Corps. In August of that year, he married his high school sweetheart—Doris Hauptfueherer.
Tom returned to college at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California, where he graduated with a B.S. Degree in Air Conditiong and Refrigeration Engineering. After working in the air conditiong and refrigeration industry for nearly thirty-seven years, he retired.
He and Doris live in Laughlin, Nevada. They have four sons and one daughter.
Forrest O’Neal – On September 20, 1952, while still in the Marine Corps, Forrest and Alice Gray were married in Little Rock, Arkansas. After leaving the Corps, he attended college on the GI Bill.
Receiving two degrees in education, he taught and coached for thirty-three years in Missouri. He then worked for the State of Missouri, in Jefferson City, for eleven years.
He and Alice live in Rolla, Missouri. They have one daughter.
Victor Shepherd – Victor went back to Akron, Ohio after leaving the Corps and went to work in a lab at a local hospital. There he met his future wife. After they were married they moved to southern California so Victor could go back to