Florissant Missouri

Johnson, Lavena Lynn
Army Private 1st class

Lavena Lynn Johnson, age 19, from Florissant, Missouri, St Louis county.

Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhd, 129Th Combat Support Battalion, Fort Campbell, Kentucky

Date of death: Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Parents: John and Linda Johnson

School: Hazelwood Central High (2004)

Death details: Found dead in tent in Balad, Iraq. Army concluded she shot herself, family disagreed.

Cemetery: Jefferson Barracks National

Source: Department of Defense, Military Times, NPR

Pollard, Gerald Ray Jr.
Army Sergeant

Gerald Ray Jr. Pollard, age 21, from Florissant, Missouri, Saint Louis county.

Parents: Gerald R. Pollard

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Wednesday, April 1, 1970
Death details: Hostile in South Vietnam.

Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)

Hoffman, David Paul
Navy Ensign 2nd class

David Paul Hoffman, age 23, from Florissant, Missouri, Saint Louis county.

Parents: Francis Hoffman

Service era: Vietnam
Schools: McCluer High graduate, Saint Louis Technical School (1966)

Date of death: Thursday, February 26, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile in South Vietnam. Killed in a helicopter crash
Cemetery: Sacred Heart

Source: National Archives, Saint Louis Post Dispatch (1970)

Prevedel, Charles Francis
Army Sergeant 1st class

Charles Francis Prevedel, age 25, from Florissant, Missouri, St. Louis county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Thursday, April 17, 1969
Death details: On November 18, 2003, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class Charles Francis Prevedel, missing from the Vietnam War. Sergeant First Class Prevedel joined the U.S. Army from Missouri and was a member of the 5th Special Forces Group. On April 17, 1969, he was a part of a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. The patrol was ambushed by enemy forces, and thunderstorms in the area prevented air support from reaching the recon team. SFC Prevedel was killed during the incident, but search teams that surveyed the area the next day found no sign of him or the other patrol members. However, after the war, a joint U.S. and Vietnamese investigative team excavated the site of the ambush and recovered human remains there. In 2003, some of the recovered remains were identified as those of SFC Prevedel.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com

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