Imperial in Imperial County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)

Imperial Valley Veterans' Memorial

Photographed by James King, February 7, 2015

1. Imperial Valley Veterans' Memorial Marker

Inscription. This Memorial Erected
in Honor of Those Who
Served Their Country
in Time of War By Veteran's Memorial Housing Committee - May 30, 1941 • Representing County Board of Supervisors - Hugh T. Osborne • Representing veterans of the war with Spain - John M. Grafton, Geo. H. Knight, Madison G. Hill • Representing veterans of the World War - William H. Rhodes, Harvey Kenyon, George Whitcher
In Memoriam
Honor well, those patriots
Who died at country's call
Lest through ingratitude
Our glorious nation fall.
Guard well, that precious liberty
Enjoyed throughout the years;
Purchased by their valiant blood
Hallowed by widow's tears.
-J. Maxwell Grafton
Revolutionary War Memorial
This marker is placed in honor of the veterans of the American Revolution Delaware • Maryland • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • North Carolina • South Carolina • New Hampshire • Massachusetts • New York • Connecticut • Georgia • New Jersey • VirginiaDesert Palm Chapter, DAR

World War II - Korea - Vietnam Memorial
In Honor of
All Who Served
WW II
Korea
Vietnam
Dedicated
November 11,1983
In Honor of Imperial County's Fallen Heroes World War I - Harry D. Adams • Fred C. Allen • David Allen • Roy E. Anderson • A. Boyce Aten • Bernard Baker • Victor H. Bell • Wheeler A Boteler • John L. Bowlin • Leslie E. Bradbury • Roland W. Bradley

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• Emil Bucher • A.O. Butler • Luther W. Creed • Cleo W. Davis • Edward J. Davis • James Garcia • Samuel C. Garrigues • Forest F. Gates • Roy C. Gates • Peter Gatto • Barney P. George • Fred Gibson • Rogers C. Goree • Everett M. Gullett • Robert Hall • Samuel Hart • Roy Heckstrum • Bert A. Hilliard • Earl A. Hobuck • Paul R. Holdzkom • Fred A. Holmes • Thomas P. Humphries • James P. Kelly •Bartlett W. Kemp • Thomas J. Lake • Lawrence Laughlin • James R. Laughrin • Roger Lawrence • Harold Lien • Ernest E. Loveland • Thomas Lundholm • Clark N. Maxey • Horace H. McCormack • Henry S. McSpadden • Floyd V. Miller • Fernand J. Miquez • Latney Y. Montague • Roy E. Moorman • Frank M. O’Conner • Charles L. Odom • Charles A. Perou • Dwight Persinger • Homer T. Pumphrey • Lee Rainbow • James Reid • Marvin D. Rhodes • Harry W. Riddle • John S. Shepherd • Gus Shireson • Robert A Shroyer • W.A. Stanley • Issac W. Stephens • Roy E. Stover • Harold Swann • Herbert J. Towler • Elmer A. Tye • George N. Welch • Sylvester Wells • Luther Wilson, Jr. • Bertrum B. Yancy

World War II - Alberto D. Aceves • George Aguayo • Lorrin D. Allen • John N. Apodaca • Louis N. Apodaca • Augustine L. Ariias • Victor M. Armendariz • Joseph Avendano, Jr. • Jose A. Baltier • Robert E. Baly • Edward R. Barajas • Vicente B. Barron • Joe M. Barros • Frederick G. Beebe

Imperial Valley Veterans' Memorial and Revolutionary War Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by James King, February 7, 2015

2. Imperial Valley Veterans' Memorial and Revolutionary War Memorial

The main marker is the bottom marker and the top marker commemorates the Revolutionary War.

• Edward L. Bridgers, Jr. • James E. Burns, Jr. • Eliazar A. Burrola • Stanley Carey • Ben Carr • Jesus R. Castro • Jack E. Center • William B. Christian • Donald M. Conser • Charles G. Cothran • Francisco P. Daniels • Gildardo Davila • Amos J. Delozier, Jr. • Harry S. Dillon • Rex A. Dreasher • Lionel L. Ducarpe, Jr. • John Dunbar • Raymond B. Engebretson • Simmie C. Ervin • Frank M. Espino • James E. Everson • Raymond M. Fernandez • Paul Flores, Jr. • Thomas H. Forman • Kenneth D. Foster • Kenneth C. Fulmer • Valentino Fusi • Maximilian Gallegos • Emanuel M. Garcia • Theodore G. Garrett • Robert J. George • William G. Gilliland • Manuel Gonzalez • Edwin S. Green • Herschel Grubbs • Salvador Guilin • Hubert Guilory • Edward L Hargrove • Howard V. Harlan • Lee A. Harris • Leroy Haskell • Sylvanus G. Haskell • Frank J. Hickcox • Gilbert Higuera • Lester Holdridge • William R. Hosea • Eldon H. Huling • Clyde B. Jackson • Leo A. Jimenez • Silas A Johnson • Daniel H. Judd • Gavino B. Julian • Robert E. Juvenal • Olaf F. Kahnert • Howard V. Keffer • Oscar D. Kemp • Kenneth S. Kenyon • Eugene G. King • Jack Kirkpatrick • John J. Landsberg • Philip E. La Vine • Charles A. Leeper • Albert F. Lopez • Oliver L. Love • Clester H. Mabry • Miguel G. Macliz • Mallard E. Maggard • Earvin E. Martin • Zacairo M. Martinez • Howard R. May • Salvador

Revolutionary War Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by James King, February 7, 2015

3. Revolutionary War Memorial

B. Mena • Dan S. Miletich • Elmer R. Miller • Leroy L. Miser • Martin A. Mitonsinka • Douglas Monson • Pedro Montoya • Ray E. Moore • Roy R. Moser • Stuart A. Munson • Jerry M. Murphy • Ralph P. Murrietta, Jr. • Fumitake Nagato • James J. Nanomantube • Roberto H. Napolean • Ramon M. Negrete • James F. Newell • Thomas Nishimoto • Marcos Ortiz • Glenn T. Otis • John E. Parrish • James E. Peck • Sterling Paris • Stanley Phillips • Emilio Pilotin • Glen D. Poole • Lewis M. Prentice • Robert L. Price • Merle A. Rader • Joseph H. Raine • John R. Ramirez • Marion H. Rankin • Edward Rathert • Clifford O. Risner • Keith H. Robertson • Louis N. Rochin • Donald C. Rodman • Geronimo L. Rodriguez • Ellis A. Rogers • William L. Rosanbalm • Manuel F. Ruiz • William E. Sage • Teofilo Salinas • Richard J. Scott • Robert H. Sharp • Joseph Shiomichi • Fred Singh • Dotsy W. Smith • Robert F. Smith • Westley J. Smith • Arthur Sobke • Howard T. Speak • Charles F. Staggs •Cecil Stallings • William P. Sunstrom • Lawrence H. Swain • Robert W. Tackett • Echol K. Tankersley • Lee R. Teague • Theodore T. Tezuka • William Toland • Wilbert Trudell • Eulojio E. Urias • Oliver H. Valdez • Lyle Van Norman • Alexandro C. Villa • Thomas B. White, Jr. • Russell Whitmer • Robert R. Willett • James H. Williams • Leon L. Withrow • Raymond G. Wood • Jesse J. Worley

World War II - Korea - Vietnam image. Click for full size.

Photographed by James King, February 7, 2015

4. World War II - Korea - Vietnam

• Walter Wylie • John Yates • Theo B. Youngblood

Korean War - Roy L. Allen • Alford L. Bradley • Frank C. Donaldson • Benjamin R. Encinas • Raul R. Pelician • William J. Hancock • Rodolfo Hernandez • William Joseph • James J. La Grange • Charles R. Lucas • Thomas Manchester • John D. Moore • Herman E. Morse • William P. Rivera • David D. Steward • William Tavres • Adolpho Valenzuela • Lonnie R. White • James D. Hammond

Vietnam War - George R. Annos, Jr. • Andrew Battiest • Salvador M.L. Banaga • Gordon B. Blackwood • Kenneth L. Breshears • Michael L. Byam • Edwardo Camarena-Salazar • William Daniels, Jr. • Richard A. Deleidi • Dennis W. Dotson • Roy W. Duncan • Michael A. Gross • Ramon S. Hernandez, Jr. • Leo C. Hester • Ralph E. Icke, II • Mark T. Jernigan • Nathan L. Johnson • Dennis E. Joy • Gene D. Killgore • Luis A. Lopez-Ramos • Herbert G. Lucas • Jesse A. Mallobox • Florencio Q. Marquez • Salvador M. Nava • David G. Nunez, Jr. • Dwanyne M. Patterson • William D. Ray • Roger E. Rodriquez • John P Scoggins • Benny J. Smith • Kurt C. Staab • Erich Tidwell • Kenneth W. Wolfe • Billy H Wyatt • Victor Zaragoza

Erected 1941 by Veteran's Memorial Housing Committee.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Heroes. In addition, it is included in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)

In Honor of Imperial County's Fallen Heroes image. Click for full size.

Photographed by James King, February 7, 2015

5. In Honor of Imperial County's Fallen Heroes

series list.

Location. 32° 49.467′ N, 115° 30.176′ W. Memorial is in Imperial, California, in Imperial County. It can be reached from the intersection of East Aten Road and Imperial Valley Pioneers Expressway (California Route 111). The veteran's memorial is part of the Imperial Valley Pioneers Museum and is outside one wing of the building. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 373 East Aten Road, Imperial CA 92251, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Imperial Valley.

It is also in the American Borderlands

and in the Southwest.

Globally, it is in North America,

on the Ring of Fire,

on the Pacific Rim,

in the Western Hemisphere,

in the Western World,

and in the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain

and also Mexico’s Alta California.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Pearl Harbor Survivors Memorial (here, next to this marker); Mobley Meadows (within shouting distance of this marker); McConnell Ranch (approx. 1.1 miles away); Imperial Valley Press (approx. 4 miles away); Women's 10,000 Club (approx. 4 miles away); Imperial Irrigation District (approx. 4 miles away); Site of Rancho El Tecolote (approx.

Wide view of the Fallen Heroes Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by James King, February 7, 2015

6. Wide view of the Fallen Heroes Memorial

5 miles away); Harold Bell Wright (approx. 5 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Imperial.

Memorial Bricks image. Click for full size.

Photographed by James King, February 7, 2015

7. Memorial Bricks

Please click on photo to enlarge to read names.

Photographed by James King, February 7, 2015

8. Memorial Bricks

Please click on photo to enlarge to read names.

Photographed by James King, February 7, 2015

9. Memorial Bricks

Please click on photo to enlarge to read names.

Imperial Valley Camp No.62<br>United Spanish War Veterans image. Click for full size.

Photographed by James King, February 7, 2015

10. Imperial Valley Camp No.62
United Spanish War Veterans

Anna Marie Ross Tent No.72<br>Grand Army of the Republic<br>1861-1865 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by James King, February 7, 2015

11. Anna Marie Ross Tent No.72
Grand Army of the Republic
1861-1865

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on March 22, 2015, by James King of San Miguel, California. This page has been viewed 2,274 times since then and 205 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. submitted on March 22, 2015, by James King of San Miguel, California. • Kevin W. was the editor who published this page.