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Keith Eric Essary, age 20, from Dyersburg, Tennessee, Dyer county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: C Co 2Nd Bn, 2Nd In Regt
Date of death: Thursday, January 8, 2009
Death details: Hostile; Maywand, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Kevin Finch Edgin, age 31, from Dyersburg, Tennessee, Dyer county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, 2D Bn, 87Th Inf, 3 Bct, 10Th Mtn Div (Tf Catamount), Fort Drum, New York
Date of death: Friday, July 7, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Kandahar, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
James Patrick Coddington, age 40, from Dyersburg, Tennessee, Dyer county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, November 9, 1970
Death details: Died in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Commerical Appeal (1970), Associated Press (1970)
Bobby Joe Lemons, age 21, from Dyersburg, Tennessee, Dyer county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 19, 1970
Source: National Archives
Claude White, age 40, from Dyer County Dyersburg, Tennessee .
Service era: World War II
Military history: Uss Oklahoma; United States Navy
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Died aboard the USS Oklahoma
Source: National Archives, Blair County military records, Altoona Mirror..
William T. Freeman from Dyersburg, Tennessee, Dyer county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Saturday, October 5, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Fairview in Dyersburg
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com
Willie Fowlkes, age 20, from Dyersburg, Tennessee, Dyer county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Saturday, September 28, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Fairview II, Dyersburg
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com