Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Blair H. Simpson, age 20, from Ogden, Utah, Weber county.
Parents: Lynn and Marilyn Simpson
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Roy High
Military history: 7th Transportation Battalion
Date of death: Wednesday, August 12, 1970
Death details: Died from non-hostile injuries
Source: National Archives, Ogden Standard Examiner (1970)
Lenny Maurice Tippets, age 19, from Ogden, Utah, Weber county.
Parents: Ray M. Tippets
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, May 7, 1970
Death details: Killed of wounds received from a mortar fragment in Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Deseret News (1970)
Jack Charles Everts, age 20, from Ogden, Utah, Weber county.
Parents: Fred and Maxiene Everts
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, April 30, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Cambodia
Cemetery: Aultorest Memorial, Ogden
Source: National Archives, Salt Lake City Deseret News (1970), Tremonton Leader (1970)
John J. Jones from Ogden, Utah, Weber county.
Spouse: Shirley H. Jones
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, March 16, 1962
Death details: Among 93 soldiers aboard a transport plane on a “secret mission” to Vietnam. Wreaths Across America in 2021: “Very little is known about what happened to the plane and its passengers, and due to the circumstance surrounding this mission, the names of those lost have not yet been added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.”
Cemetery: A memorial honoring the lives lost was dedicated in 2021 in Columbia Falls, Maine
Source: Atlanta Counstitution (1962), MauiNow (2021), UPI (1962)
Leo M. Yates, age 25, from Ogden, Utah, Weber county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, January 23, 1944
Death details: Died missing in Africa
Source: National Archives, Salt Lake Tribune (1943)
John Milton Purdy, age 31, from Ogden, Utah, Weber county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Saturday, February 6, 1943
Death details: Died missing in Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Salt Lake Tribune (1943)
Lloyd F. Luddington, age 22, from Ogden, Utah, Weber county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Thursday, January 21, 1943
Death details: Died missing in North Africa
Source: National Archives, Salt Lake Tribune (1943)
Reed J. Berrett, age 27, from Ogden, Utah, Weber county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, January 10, 1943
Death details: Killed in plane crash at Topeka, Kansas
Source: National Archives, Salt Lake Tribune (1943)
Lewis Thomas Brown, age 34, from Ogden, Utah, Weber county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Friday, November 13, 1942
Death details: Missing in the Pacific
Cemetery: Manila American Cemetery
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Salt Lake Tribune (1943)
Orluff Oram, age 22, from Ogden, Utah, Weber county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Thursday, November 12, 1942
Death details: Missing in action off Guadalcanal
Source: National Archives, Salt Lake Tribune (1943)