Parham, Louie Snyder
Marines Corporal

Louie Snyder Parham, age 21, from Novice, Texas, Coleman county.

Parents: Louis B. Parham

Service era: Vietnam
Military history: Louie was discharged in June and volunteered for another tour.

Date of death: Tuesday, March 16, 1965
Death details: Died of rifle shot wounds inflicted March 14 when his fire team returned to where they had left another member. They apparently returned from a direction different from the one the guard expected and he fired thinking it was the Viet Cong. Louie’s mom told the local newspaper: “We would like to express in some way to the parents of the boy that we have no ill feelings toward him.”
Cemetery: Atoka

Source: National Archives, Abilene Reporter (1965), Odessa American (1965)