Sidney Joseph Jr Marceaux, age 69, from Beaumont, Texas, Jefferson county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A, Warrior Transition Unit, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Date of death: Sunday, September 14, 2008
Death details: Washington, United States
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
John C. Fowler, age 26, from Beaumont, Texas, Jefferson county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Monday, March 18, 1991
Death details: Died non-battle
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, The Gulf War Chronicles, Department of Defense
Donald Ray Frank, age 23, from Beaumont, Texas, Jefferson county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Monday, January 28, 1980
Death details: Among the 23 who died when the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn collided with a tanker near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay in Florida.
Source: United State Coast Guard, Tampa Bay Times (1980)
Freddie Louis Dacus, age 25, from Beaumont, Texas, Jefferson county.
Spouse: Walterine Dacus
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, November 12, 1970
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Jerrell David Scroggs, age 23, from Beaumont, Texas, Jefferson county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, July 15, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile death in Indochina
Source: National Archives, Lubbock Avalanche Journal (1970)
Holly Gene Bell, age 33, from Beaumont, Texas, Jefferson county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, January 28, 1970
Death details: On June 1, 1989, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Holly Gene Bell, missing from the Vietnam War. Major Bell entered the U.S. Air Force from Texas and was a member of 40th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron. On January 28, 1970, he piloted an HH-53B Super Jolly Green Giant (tail number 14434, call sign “Jolly Green 71”) that took off on a search and rescue mission in Laos. While in a holding pattern over the rescue area, the helicopter was hit by enemy fire and crashed, killing Maj Bell. Search efforts could not be conducted due to a strong enemy presence in the area, and Maj Bell’s remains were not recovered at the time. In 1986, a meeting between U.S. investigators and Vietnamese government officials in Hanoi led to the repatriation of human remains that correlated to Maj Bell’s loss. In 1989, U.S. investigators were able to identify Maj Bell from these remains. Major Bell is memorialized in the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Chicago Tribune (1970), Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Jack H. Stevens, age 21, from Jefferson County Beaumont, Texas .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Thomas Gearen from Jefferson County Beaumont, Texas .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Sunday, January 12, 1919
Death details: Died of accident
Source: Soldiers of the Great War
Henry F. Duperier, age 28, from Beaumont, Texas.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Saturday, September 28, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com