Knoxville in Knox County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Knoxville Honor Roll

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, July 7, 2023

1. Knoxville Honor Roll Marker

Inscription.
Tribute is here paid to Knoxville community
members who answered the call to service
★ Killed in service
World War II Theodore Abernathy • Rowen Aldrich • John H. Anderson Jr. • James E. Bainbridge • William Bainbridge • John Baker • Stanley Baker • Franklin Baker • Willis Bale • Berwyn Barlow • Donald Barlow • Ivan Barlow • C. Jean Barrett • Thomas Batell • ★ Clarence Baxter • Edward Baxter Jr. • Eugene Baxter • Harold Becker • Floyd Becker • Merrill C. Beecher • Clarence Beinhart • Thomas E. Berry • Alfred Betts Jr. • Robert Blevins • Donald Bloomfield • Lloyd Blust • Wilbur Don Blust • Clyde Bock • Ralph Bock • Harold Booten • Clarence Boston • James Bowman • Le Roy Bowman • Robert Bowman • Warren Bowman • Elery Boynton • Verlin Branson • Richard Brashear • Walter Brashear • H. Eugene Bragg • Keith D. Bratton • Merle Brentlinger • Dale D. Brownlee • Pat Bryan • Francis Brush • Charles Burnaugh • Gale Brooks • Dale Butts • Virgil Butts • Millard C. Cain • Earl Carlson • Harold Carlson • Derrill Carrigan • Nemo Castilleni • Jarvis Cecil • Robert Ceilly • Joe M. Chapman • Harlan Charles • Raymond Charles

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Earl V. Clay • Howard Clay • Lyle E. Clay • Robert J. Clay • Russell Clay • Lloyd E. Cochran • Richard Cochran • Merrill Collopy • Paul W. Compton • Melvin R. Conlon • H. Stanton Conkright • Mace Cooley • Kay H. Courter • Stephen M. Courter • Robert G. Coulter • D.N. Cottle • Arthur B. Coziahr • ★ Leland W. Cramer • H.A. Curtis • Charles Daley • John Daley • Lloyd W. Daley • Howard Daugherty • James J. Daugherty • William Daugherty • Edward E. Davis • Dean Davis • Gerald Dean Davis • Harold E. Davis • Lloyd F. Davis • Lowell E. Davis • Thomas L. Davis • ★ Sam Leland Davis • Leonard Dawson • Dorrance Dennis • Ward Dennis • John Derham • Francis R. Devoss • Harold F. Dillard • Charles Donaldson • George Donaldson • Eugene Dugan • Harold Dugan • William Dugan • Richard A. Dwyer • ★ Donald Lee Earnst • Owen Earnst • Roy Eckstrom • Rolland Eckman • Howard Ellison • Phillip Eklund • Ralph W. Eklund • Donald K. England • Dale R. Erickson • Gene Estes • Max Estes • Logan Essex • William R. Finley • Lyle Fitzpatrick • Gale L. Folger

John Folger • Willis Folger • Jack C. Foster • Robert Foster Jr. • Roy R.

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Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, July 7, 2023

2. Knoxville Honor Roll (World War II)

Fox • Samuel O. Fox • Gene Franklin • ★ Robert Fuller Jr. • Oliver S. Gagg • Kenneth Gardner • Charles R. Gardner • Charles Genishio • John C. German • Armando Ghitalla • Jack Ghitalla • Roy H. Gibson Jr. • Floyd Gilson • Robert G. Glore • Raymond D. Godsil • Richard T. Goff • Robert W. Goff • Herbert L. Gordon • William C. Goudie • Robert Gustafson • Rolland R. Gustafson • C. Clifton Gray • Edward E. Gregg • Richard J. Grindle • Carl Hale • Everett Hale • Paul C. Hale • Arthur M. Hanson • Charles Happs • Joe R. Happs • Verne B. Harris • Gerald Hawkins • Eugene Hayes • Dean Hazen • Gene Hebard Jr. • Gilbert Hebard • Harold Helander • ★ Gordon Henness • Layman L. Herman • Walter Herman • Earl Higgins • Stanley Hiler • Robert Hillman • Donald Hinkle • Delmar S. Hirpe • James Holloway • Willard D. Holloway • Dale Holloway • Henry Holsinger • George Hoon • Arthur Howerter • Calvin Howard • Loren Howard • Daniel Huff • ★ Stanley Hughes • Cecil L. Hunt

Donald L. Hutson • Orrin Jacobs • Arlo B. Jacobson • Raymond Jefferson • William Jefferson • Bernard W. Johnson • C. Robert Johnson • Dean F. Johnson • Doyle Johnson •

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Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, July 7, 2023

3. Knoxville Honor Roll (Korean War)

★ Frederick H. Johnson • Leonard Johnson • Lloyd D. Johnson • Loren Johnson • Marvin Johnson • Wilbur Johnson • Charles K. Jones • Jasper L. Jones • ★ William Harold Karr • Vernon Karr • Lee E. Keene • Ray Kemper • Teddy G. Kennelly • Earl W. Kinast • Floyd E. Kirkendall • Wayne Kirkendall • William R. Kounter • George W. Lacy • Ward O. Lacy • Donald La Follette • J. Garrett La Follette • Richard W. La Follette • Henry Larson • Willard Larson • Alonzo Lawrence • Lester A. Lawrence • L. Clinton Lawson • Norman E, Leyshon • Herman L. Liniger • Everette S. Lindsey • ★ Sam Locart • Darrel Lynch • Harold E. Magnison • Albert Maher • Bernard Mahon • Carl Malloy • G. Warren Manley • Ralph W. Manley • Jack F. Manuel • Raymond Manuel • Dale Markham • Kenneth Martin • Harold Mason • Gale Mathers • Max Mathers • Arthur F. Mates • Bernard A. Mates • J. William Mates • D. Dean Matthews • George Earl May • Paul E. May

Paul McCormick • Myron McCoy • Robert Means • Harold Miller • Conley T. Mimmick • William W. Mimmick • Theodore Moffet • Laverne C. Molberg • Charles Moore • Thomas E. Moorehead • Robert R. Morrison • Howard Morse

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4. Knoxville Honor Roll (Vietnam War)

• Robert Mortenson • Russell Mortenson • Howard Morton • Harley L. Mundwiler • George B. Murphy • Kenneth R. Murphy • Robert Myers • Leroy Nash • Robert R. Naslund • Carl W. Nelson Jr. • Dean Nelson • Harold O. Nelson • John Nelson • Levi Nelson • Orval Nelson • J. Paul Newcomer • Bernard Nichols • Lewis Nichols • Paul Nichols • Robert Nonamaker • Ralph U. Norman • Paul Patton • Lewis Peabody • Charles Peck • Harold Peck • Wilbur Peck • Lynn Pemberton • Reuben Pepper • Raymond Peterson • ★ Earl C. Peterson • Howard Peterson • John W. Peterson • Ellsworth Peterzen • Kenneth Phlamm • William Phillips • Francis Pierson • Harold L. Pierson • Walter Pitts • Arvin Pollard • W. Elmo Pollard • Everett W. Potter • Joseph Pouche • Leopold Pouche • George R. Prates • Howard Pruett • John Pruett • Richard Pruett • Robert Putman

Thomas Putman • Karl E. Quick • ★ Robert Ramp • Miles E. Ray • Donald Redman • ★ Melvin F. Redman • Keith Reynolds • Richard Reynolds • William Reynolds • Edwin Ring • James L. Rocco • Harold Roe. Jr. • Edward Rose • John Rose • Fred A. Rosine • Wayne R. Rosene • James Russell • Vernon Russell • Dean

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Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, July 7, 2023

5. Knoxville Honor Roll

Saline • ★ Eugene Saline • Harold Sayrs • Melvin Sayrs • Robert Sayrs • John Schenck • Lester Schenck • ★ George Scott • ★ Robert Shaw • Gene Simenic • Lawrence Simenic • Claire Seward • Wylie Schimmel Jr. • Otis Schissler • James Sharples • Verl Lee Shearer • Carter Sherman • James Sherwood • Jean Shover • Willard Simpson • Walter Simpson • Ed Smith • Everett Smith • Giles N. Smith • Harold Snodgrass • James Snodgrass • Raymond Snodgrass • ★ Franklin W. Sommers • Lloyd E. Sommers • ★ Stanley H. Sommers • Albert R. Soper • Edward E. Soper • Lewis M. South • Floyd Spencer Jr. • Charles Steck • Raymond Steck • Charles Steele • Forrest Steele • George Steele • James Steele • Roy Steele • William L. Steele

Virgil Steele • Byron W. Stephenson • Hollis B. Stephenson • Hudson W. Stephenson • Harry Stevens • Jack Stevens • Roy Stevens Jr. • ★ Kendall M. Stevenson • Wilford Stevenson • Marion Stewart • Harold Stickell • ★ John Stickell • George Strain • Clifford Stockton • ★ William D. Stockton • Charles Suydam • Frank Swanson • Fritz Swanson • Helen Swickard • John Swickard • Robert Swigart

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• James Tarochione • Leo Tate • Dorrance Taylor • George Taylor • Hollis Taylor • Lloyd E. Taylor • Robert Taylor • Wayne Taylor • Artillus Templeton • Bruce Terpening • Donald Thomann • Harry W. Thurman • David Trout • William Trout • Harold Tucker • James Tucker • Joseph Tucker • Willis Tucker • Edwin Unger • John Unger • Willard Upp • Romie Vaughn • Donovan Wagner • Ray R. Wagner • ★ John W. Walck • William R. Walck • Marcel D. Wahlberg • Rex Wallick • Laverne Walker • Wallace L. Ward • George E. Ward • Alvin Washabaugh • Earl Way • Glenn Way • Francis Wessels • Evard West • Ormand West • Robert E. West

Leroy West Jr. • Shirley West • Theodore L. West • ★ Ivan A. Westerfield • Robert Westergreen • Wallace E. White • Palmer Whitterberg • Gerald Whitsitt • Leland Whitsitt Sr. • Warren Whitsitt • Earl F. Williams • Earl V. Williams • Robert Williams • Royce Williams • C. Wesley Wilt • John Mark Wolf • Bernard Woods • Darrald Woolsey • Phillip Woolsey • James C. Woolsey • Wayne Woolsey • John E. Young • Robert Young • Robert Cook • Harry Cramer Jr. • Vernon Mathews • Clarence Reinhart

Knoxville community members who
answered the call to service during the
Korean War
★ Killed in service William Alexander • James Anderson • John Block • Howard Bowman • Keith Bratton • Chauncey Brown • Ralph Brown • Ronald Brush • ★ Leland Carder • Earl R. Carlson • Darrell Carrigan • C. Jay Cecil • John W. Cecil • Melvin Chancy • Don Chapman • Ray Chism • Thomas Claridge • Jack Clevenger • Robert Collins • Carlos Connour • Floyd Connour • D. N. Cottle • Duane Courter • ★ Rodney Cramer • Robert Crow • Philip Cummings • John Daugherty Jr. • William Daugherty • Gerald Davis • William Eiker • Donald Eklund • Gene K. Eklund • Rolland Eklund • Charles Ennis • Dennis Gibb • Robert Globe • Harold E. Goff • Virgil Griffith • Wayne B. Grohman • Fred Hartnell • Glenn Hartnell • William Heller • Donald Helms • Howard L. Henderson • Stanley Hiler • Charles W. Hilman • Gerald Hilton • Leroy Hobbs • Robert L. Hroziencik • George Hutson

Richard Ireland • Howard Johnson • Joe S. Johnson • Richard G. Johnson • Wilfred Johnson • Edward Kounter • Phillip Kreigh • Gerald Lambert • Theodore Larson • William Lawrence • Ronald Link • Walter V. Lundberg • Richard Magnison • Burton Manwarren • Laverne Markham • James R. Mates • Max E. Mathers • Robert McKee • Clarence McLaren • Donald McLaren • Harold McLaren • Donald Neblock • Robert L. Mills • Robert Mortenson • James C. Olin • James Paulsgrove • Billy Peterson • Robert Pickrel • Nels Pierson • Jack Potter • Ralph Potter • Richard Powell • Theodore Putnam • Richard Rainey • Lewis Ralston • Charles Randall • David Reynolds • ★ Billy Roe • Donald Ryner • C. Donald Saline • Robert Selfridge • Floyd Shepard • Charles Sexton • Leroy Sherman • Armand Shinbaugh • William Smith • Robert Spencer • Robert E. Steele • Charles Stockton • James Stockton

Wayne Suydam • ★ James Tarochione • Russell Thorell • Richard Vedell • Wilbur Walck • Laverne Walker • Thomas D. Walker • Donald Watts • Glenn West • Alan Westerfield • David Westerfield • Thomas Wilson • Wesley Wilt • Terry F. Woolridge • John Woolsey • Ardwin C. Young • Larry P. Young • William J. Charles • Frank Hopkins • Donald Dredge

Knoxville community members who
answered the call to service during the
Vietnam War
★ Killed in Service Wm. Alexander • Tim Asbury • David Bailey • Frankie Baxter • Robert Baxter • Douglas Beardsley • James Beary • Leonard Beary • Richard Beary • Tom Bennett • Aleta Bleichner • Margaret Bleichner • Mark Bleichner • Marvin Bleichner • Maynard Bleichner • Robin Bleichner • Bill Blickem • Don Bohanan • Bill Bowen • Mike Boyer • Dennis Bramlett • Jerry Bramlett • Keith Bratton • Jerry Brodine • Bill Brown • Robert S. Buchanan • Harold Burmood Jr. • Tim Carter • Mike Cecil • Jim Chapman • Charles Chism • Rick Clewell • Terry Clewell • James Clifford • Wm. Cochran • Robert Coffee • Robert Conley • Bill Connour • Bob Connour • Richard Corbin • George Courter • Richard Courter • Steve Cramer • Gary Currey • Jim Currey • Kaye Currey • Kenny Currey • Larry Daugherty • Warren Davies • Rodney Dawson • Derril Dempsey • Rodney Dennis • Dale Derham • Kenneth Dixon • Roger Eagle • Donald Ernst • Bill Eckman • Tom England • Mike Ferguson

Larry Fisher • Charles Fox • James Fox • Steve Fox • Jim Fuller • Charles Gardner Jr. • Ray--- Godfrey • Thomas Godfrey • Randy Godsil • Ray D. Godsil • Rick Godsil • Charles J. Goff • Gary Goudie • Joe Gough • Tom Graham • Virgil Griffith • Rick Grohman • Willard Gustafson • Fred Hacker • Gary Hacker • Larry Hatch • Gene Hebard III • James Henderson • Richard Henderson • Stanley Hiler • Edward Hoben • John Hodge • Mike Hoffman • Bruce Hopping • Leroy Hopping • Harold Howerter • Max Howerter • Don Hughs • Rick Hulick • John Hutson • David James • Bruce Johnson • Charles G. Johnson • Darwin Johnson • David Johnson • Dean Johnson • Richard Johnson • ★ Rodney Johnson • David A. Jones • David "Deke" Jones • Fred Jones • Gary Kaser • John Kell • Carl Kennett • Hildred Kennett • Tom Kennett • Bill Kerr • Jim Kerr • K. G. Klinck • Joe Knutson • Floyd Lamberson • Robert Larson • Paul Larson • John Lefler

Burt Lockwood • Dale Luallen • Jerry Lufkin • Terry Lufkin • Lowell Manhardt • Leroy Marquith • Larry Martin • Roland Mastin • Steve Mathers • John Mates • Glade Mathews • John McCormick • Stam McGaheh • Fred McIlravy • Larry McIlravy • John McNaught • Bill Meredith • David Mitchel • Don Morrison • Tom Myers • Francis Neal • Ronnie Neal • Terry Olson • Don Owens • Bob Owens • Roger Patterson • John Paulsgrove • Ronald Peck • James Peterson • Roger Peterson • Randy Pitts • Dennis Ritchie • Lewis Rosenberry • Stephen Ruddell • David Ruetz • David Ryan • Roger Ryan • Gary Saline • Jerry Saline • Jimmy Sayers • Jerry Scale • Jack Schideman • Gary Scott • Mike Scott • Tom Seabloom • Charles Sexton • Russell Sexton • Gerald Sharp • Roger Sharp • Patrick Sharp • Stanley Sharp • Floyd Shepard • Steve Shover • Chuck Smith • Ciles Smith • Edwin Smith • Harold Smith • James Smith • John Smith • Mike Smith

Martin Spencer • Robert Spillman • Kenny Stanton • Larry Stanton • Jack Stockton • Dan Stogdill • Fred Stier • Jimmy Stomberg • Tom Stone • Phil Swanson • Steve Swanson • Allen Taylor • John Taylor • Dave Thompson • Dwane Thompson • Don Trotter • Marty Thurman • Rodney Upp • Charles Vallas • Bill Van Winkle • Fred Voeller • Bob Wadham • Bob Walck • Jim Walker • Laverne Walker • Steve Walker • Tom Walker • Dave Ward • Chuck Westbay • Bob White • Dave White • Jim White • Tisha White • Steve Whiteside • Ed Whitsitt • Herbert Whitsitt Jr. • Ted Whitsitt • Ray Whitworth • Jay Williams • Fred Willison • Wesley Wilt • Charles Witherbee • Terry Woolridge • James C. Woolsey II • Charles Wright • Jim Young • Donald W. Boone • Thomas A. White • Joe Franklin Burgess Sr. • Gary Harter • Byrun Napier • Roger L. Ashbaugh • Larry D. Folger • Gary A. Goff • Richard N. Blakley Jr. • Glenn Stegall • Richard G. Hatch • Ricky Edwards • Jeff Woolsey

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II.

Location. 40° 54.502′ N, 90° 17.039′ W. Memorial is in Knoxville, Illinois, in Knox County. It is on East Main Street (U.S. 150) west of East Public Square, on the right when traveling west. Memorial is between Knoxville City Hall and the old Knox County Courthouse. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Knoxville IL 61448, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Central Illinois.

It is also in the American Midwest

and in the Corn Belt.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture

and also the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: The “Old Courthouse” (a few steps from this marker); John G. Sanburn (within shouting distance of this marker); The Indian Trails (within shouting distance of this marker); Old Court House (within shouting distance of this marker); Knox Township World War I Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Hall of Records (within shouting distance of this marker); Old Jail (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); 614 East South Street (approx. 4.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Knoxville.

Credits. This page was last revised on August 4, 2023. It was originally submitted on August 3, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 1,002 times since then and 54 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 3, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. 3. submitted on August 4, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. 4. submitted on August 3, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. 5. submitted on August 4, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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