Lovington in Lea County, New Mexico — The American Mountains (Southwest)
Lea County War Memorial
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, October 9, 2023
1. Lea County War Memorial Marker
Inscription.
that we here highly resolve
that these dead shall not
have died in vain
Abraham Lincoln
World War I
Reginald E. Baird Law G. Barron Y. C. Blakey Jesse R. Cross James H. English Claud P. Graves Walter A. Grizzell Charlie F. Holland Matt Musgrove Virgil A. Norbeck Claud C. Odle Louis W. Tinker Thomas C. Walker Thomas G. Weir Van O. Willhoit
World War II
Carl R. Allters, Jr. - Army 2 Lt David T. Bachtol Foy E. Baker - Army 2 Lt Roggie L. Beadle - Army Ssg Duane J. Beal - Army 1 Lt Frank S. Bishop - Army Pfc Charlie D. Bowden - Army Pvt Cookie Boyd Harman E. Boyd - Army Cpl Ben Alvin Branum, Jr. - Navy RM3 William L. Bright - Army Pfc James W. Brown - Army Sgt Ocie E. Brown - Army Cpl
James F. Burgin - Army Sgt Ellis S. Byers - Army 1 Lt Kenneth D. Cain - Army Ssg Buford R. Campbell - Army Pvt Elwood E. Carr - Army Sgt Roy W. Cecil Aurther Charles Jerry C. Clay - Army Ssg Marvin T. Cole - Army Ssg George T. Coleman - Army Lt Col
To honor all who died serving
their country in wartime
John B. Cooper Elbert W. Creech - Army 2 Lt
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W. E. Daniel Charles R. Derrick - Army Pfc Alonzo Dotson - Army Pvt Leo S. Edwards - Army Ssg Richard D. Ewing - Pfc Margarito C. Frausto - Army Pvt Manuel Gallegos, Jr.- Army Sgt Thomas R. Gandy Pat Hanks - Army Pfc James B. Heard - Army Sgt Roy D. Hobbs - Army Pfc Harold M. Hollis - Army Ssg Bennie F. Howard - Army Tsgt Burl C. Howell - Army Sgt Robert D. Huchton - Army Pvt George H. Huston - Army Cpl W. W. Jackson James J. Jones - Army Sgt Dave B. Lawson - Army Pfc Bruce T. Lee - Army Pvt Larry A. Loggins - Army Cpl Virgil Lusk Loyd L. Maness - Army Sgt Denver B. Matlock - Army Pvt Ralph L. Meeker - Army Sgt Thurman Molder Billie J. Moore Francis L. R. McAlphine -Army Sgt Raymond J. McBride - Army Cpl V. W. McCalister Jessie McCulloch James D. McDorman - Army Pfc Foster M. Peters Morgan H. Neeley - Army 1 Sg Richard Nelson - Army Pfc Robert H. Nolen Maryon H. Nuley
James G. Odell - Army Pvt John E. Overstreet - Army 2 Lt Larry Pinson Harold V. Phillips - Army Cpl Robert Phillips Gail Borden Power - Navy BU Lowell Priest - Army Pvt Edred E. Proffitt
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, October 9, 2023
2. Lea County War Memorial (WWI and WWII)
- Army Pvt H. Ramiery - Army Pfc Allen A. Raper Melvin L. Reid - Army Pvt Harold G. Richardson - Army Sgt William B. Richardson W. E. Richardson Coleman W. Robinson - Navy HM2 Olin A. Roper - Army Pfc William F. Shield William M. Shipp - Army 2 Lt Harold P. Simpson - Army Pfc Julius Lafayette Sloan - Navy Lt Irwin U. Steagall - Army Pfc Raoul S. Stewart - Army Pfc E. K. Tankersley James Edward Teas - Navy SN Charles A. Toby - Army Tsgt J. E. Tremaine C. A. Waldrop Paul A. Walsh - Army Pfc Earl C. Watson - Army Ssg Joe Westbrook - Army Pfc Olen C. Williams - Army Ssg Jessie L. White Orvel R. H. Wood - Army Cpl Warren M. Wright - Marines Capt Lloyd P. Wynn - Army Cpl Paul H. Young - Marines Cpl
Korean War
Jim C. Cain - Army Pfc Robert L. Hudson - Army Cpl Orville K. Spicer - Army Pfc Billy D. Vaught - Army Pfc
Vietnam War
Ronald David Horn - Army Ssgt Leonard Erwin Cruce - Army Pfc Charles Daniel Foley - Army Capt Charles Lee Gass - Marines Lcpl Stanley W. McPherson - Army Sp4 Ronnie Lee Noseff - Army Cpl Jaime Pacheco - Army Sp4 Jimmie Leon Plato - Navy
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, October 9, 2023
3. Lea County War Memorial (WWII)
HN Howard Jacob Rice - Army Cpl Harry Marco Roberts - Army Sp4 Jackie Glen Leisure - Army Ssgt Jimmy Clifton Mathis - Navy HN Ennis Eugene Crow - Army Sp4 Edward Earl Davies - Marines Lcpl Reynaldo Guzman - Marines Lcpl Harold Eugene Hager - Marines Lcpl Ronald Gene McCraw - Army Sgt John A. Rickels - Army Sgt Terry Leo Trainor - Army 1 Lt Freddie Carval Defoor - Army Pfc
America's Fight
against Terrorism
and Tyranny
Aaron C. Austin - Marine Lcpl - Iraq Tommy Bostick - Army Major - Afghanistan
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
Location. 32° 56.899′ N, 103° 20.903′ W. Memorial is in Lovington, New Mexico, in Lea County. It is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 82) and East Central Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Main Street. Memorial is on the Lea County Courthouse grounds. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 100 Main St, Lovington NM 88260, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in New Mexico’s Pecos Valley. It is also in the American Southwest,
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, October 9, 2023
4. Lea County War Memorial (Korea & Vietnam)
on the Great Plains, on the Southern Plains, and specifically on the High Plains. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the Comancherνa, and the Republic of Texas.
Other nearby markers. At least 5 other markers are within 17 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Commercial Hotel (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Pyburn House (approx. 0.3 miles away); Lovington (approx. 2.8 miles away); Hobbs 9/11 Memorial (approx. 14.7 miles away); Hobbs Army Air Field (approx. 14.7 miles away).
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, October 9, 2023
5. Lea County War Memorial (War on Terror - front)
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, October 9, 2023
6. Lea County War Memorial (War on Terror - back)
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, October 9, 2023
7. Lea County War Memorial
Credits. This page was last revised on October 29, 2023. It was originally submitted on October 29, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 373 times since then and 49 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. submitted on October 29, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
