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CM Feedback: Hoviouses, kin added to Veterans List

RELATED EVENT REMINDER: - Sunday, May 28, 2006, 2pm. Superintendent Darrell Treece will be the guest speaker for a Memorial Day Service at the VFW Fairgrounds in Columbia, according to Post Commander Jimmy Luttrell. The event is open to the public.
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Cooley family suffered perhaps most tragic losses

By Richard Hovious

Thought I would add a few of the Hovious family who served.


World War II: George Hovious, Joseph "Jodie" Hovious, Troy Hovious, Marshall Hovious, Kenneth Hovious and cousin William, Billie Bailey.

Korean War: Richard Hovious, Cousins Ralph "Junior" Cooley, Coakley "Buddy" Knifley.

Cooleys suffered most tragic losses

Most tragic, I think, were the Cooley boys, cousins from Columbia, KY. Elmo was killed in Japan while serving in the US Army, just before the Korean War began. His brother Junior Cooley died of cancer which developed while on active duty.

Their uncles George and Joe Cooley seem to have served in every hostility fromm WWI to Vietnam. Both retired as Naval officers.

A strange happening in military, in San Diego

One of my stranger happenings in the military came on New Years 1950I was waddling south on Broadway in San Diego around 2am when a familiar face appeared waddling north. It was Joe Cooley. We exchanged What the --- are you doing heres?, waddled on, and never saw each other again.
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