Vester Morgan MIXON2,3,4,9,6,5,10,11,8,1,12,12

also known as 1

28th May 19122,3,4,5,1 - 9th Sep 19811

Life History

28th May 1912	Born in Bivins, Cass, Texas.2,3,4,5,1
1927	Educated 8th grade education WDAGO Form 100 1945 US Army record in possession of family in Black Diamond, Miller, Arkansas.1
1935	Resident Rural Cass County; Source is the 1940 Census in Cass County, Texas.1
1st Apr 1940	Resident Fort Sill Military Reservation in Elgin, Comanche, Oklahoma.1
8th Oct 1940	Resident Reenlistment Ft. Sill OK U.S. Army records in possession of family in Oklahoma.4,1
8th Mar 1942	Resident Fort Jackson; source is letter to Nancy Elizabeth Mixon Maddox in Richland County, South Carolina.1
8th Aug 1942	Married Myrtle Lucille BRINKLEY in Huntsville, Madison, Alabama.9,11
8th Aug 1942	Resident Camp Forrest; Listed as residence on marriage license in possesion of family in Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee.1
5th Sep 1942	Resident Camp Forrest; Source is letter to Nancy Elizabeth Mixon Maddox in Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee.1
11th Apr 1943	Birth of son Marion Lee MIXON in Fort Jackson, Richland, South Carolina.13,1,14
11th Apr 1943	Resident U. S. Army Family info and birth cert of Marion L. Mixon in Fort Jackson, Richland, South Carolina.1
10th Mar 1944	Birth of daughter Cynthia Ann MIXON in Camp Wolters, Palo Pinto, Texas.15,10,16,1
5th Dec 1944	Resident Exact location uncertain; Source is a postcard to Nancy Elizabeth Mixon Maddox in England, UK.1
21st Dec 1944	Military: US Army German POW WWII. US Army records/Letter from War Department/Western Union Telegraph/family records and research. in Germany.1
between 1945 and 1948	Resident 702 Liberty; source is family records in Weatherford, Parker, Texas.1
22nd Mar 1945	Birth of son Vester Morgan MIXON in Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto, Texas.12,17,18,1
1948	Resident Ft Sill in Elgin, Comanche, Oklahoma.1
15th Sep 1949	Resident 578th Ordinance Company, Marianas-Bonins Command; Source is Travel Orders. Family records in possession of Marion L. Mixon in Marianas Islands.1
Jan 1950	Resident Marianas- Bonins Command; Source is US Army Education Program Certificate. Family records in possesion of Marion L. Mixon in Marianas Islands.1
1952	Resident City Directory, Oklahoma City, 1952; residence 306 N. 19th St in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Territory.8
between 1953 and 1956	Resident Family Record, Marion L Mixon; his Army BIRLS file shows that these dates were between his first reinlistment discharge in 1945 and his second reinlistment. in 1958; but birth-death cert of his son born in France indicates he was a Sergeant in the US Army in France.7,4,1
8th Jul 1953	Birth of daughter Rosalind Gail MIXON in Weatherford, Parker, Texas.10,2,1
10th Jul 1953	Death of daughter Rosalind Gail MIXON in Weatherford, Parker, Texas.19,2,1
10th Jul 1953	Died in Parker County, Texas.1 (less likely)
10th Nov 1955	Birth of son Rusty Ray MIXON in Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France.7,1
10th Nov 1955	Death of son Rusty Ray MIXON in Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France.7,1
between 1956 and 1962	Resident US Army Family Records in Copperas Cove, Coryell, Texas.1
between 1962 and 1963	Resident Family records in Garner, Parker, Texas.1
between 1963 and 1966	Resident Family records in Cool, Parker, Texas, USA.1
between 1966 and 1967	Resident Family records in Doyline, Webster, Louisiana.1
between 1967 and 1968	Resident Family records in Roddessa, Caddo, Louisiana.1
between 1968 and 1970	Resident Family records in Vivian, Caddo, Louisiana, United States of America.1
8th Sep 1979	Resident Last residence was Rodessa, LA. Died while being cared for at Hosp Ft Hood, TX. Son Marion L. Mixon was stationed at Fort Hood with the US Army. in Roddessa, Caddo, Louisiana.1
22nd Oct 1979	Resident in Roddessa, Caddo, Louisiana.1
22nd Oct 1979	Divorced from Myrtle Lucille BRINKLEY in Cumberland County, North Carolina.2,6
1981	Resident Home at time of death; Family info, Marion L Mixon in Roddessa, Caddo, Louisiana.1
9th Sep 1981	Died in Killeen, Bell. Texas.2,3,4,5,1 (most likely) Acute Respiratory Arrest, due to small cell carcinoma of the lung;
12th Sep 1981	Buried in Rodessa, Caddo, Louisiana.2,6,5,1

Other facts

	Social Security number 432-07-4083.1
	Birth of daughter Living MIXON
	Birth of daughter Living MIXON
	Birth of daughter Living MIXON
	Birth of son Living MIXON

Notes

Alabama, Marriage Collection, 1800-1969
Vester M Mixon
Marriage 8 Aug 1942 Madison County, Alabama
Source information Alabama Center for Health Statistics

U.S., Departing Passenger and Crew Lists, 1914-1965
Mixon, Myrtle L (Sgt Vester M, Army) 40 F
Mixon, Marion L 11yrs 4 mos M
Mixon, Cynthia A 10yrs 5 mos F
Mixon, Vester M, Jr 9yrs 5mos M
Mixon, Joyce 7yrs 2mos F
Mixon, Sandra K 5yrs 5mos F
Mixon, Melinda 2yrs F
Departure Age 10-5
Birth Date abt 1944
Departure 3 Sep 1954 New York, New York, USA
TRANSOCEAN AIR LINES, Flight Number 3 E IDFR177/03
Embarkation Idlewild, New York
Destination Frankfurt, Germany
ultimate destination Toul, France

U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
Vester Mixon
Birth 28 May 1912
Death 9 Sep 1981
SSN 432074083
ARMY
Enlistment Date 1 8 Oct 1940
Release Date 1 4 Oct 1945
Enlistment Date 2 25 Mar 1958
Release Date 2 30 Apr 1961

North Carolina Divorce Index, 1958-2004
Vestor Mixon
Spouse's Name Lucille Mixon
Divorce 22 Oct 1979 Cumberland County

Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Vester Morgan Mixon
Residence 52701-2 Pima Court, Fort Hood, Bell, Texas
Birth 28 May 1913 Louisiana
Divorced Caucasian (White) Male
Father Julius Mixon, Mother Eula Johnson
Age at Death 68
Death 9 Sep 1981 Darnall Army Command Hospital, Precinct 4, Bell County, Texas
Cause of death Acute Respiratory Arrest, due to small cell carcinoma of the lung
Burial 12 September 1981 Mt Gilliam [Gilead] Cemetery, Rodessa, Louisiana, by Crawford Bower Funeral Home
Filed 10 September 1981, Filed State 26 October 1981

U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Vester Mixon
Born 28 May 1912
Died Sep 1981
SSN 432-07-4083 issued Arkansas (Before 1951)

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Vester Morgan Mixon
Birth May 28, 1912 Bivins, Cass County, Texas
Death Sep. 9, 1981 Killeen, Bell County, Texas

Graveside services for Vester Morgan Mixon, 69, of Killenn, Texas with full military honors were held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Mt. Gilead Cemetery near Vivian. Mixon, died Wednesday in the Fort Hood Army Hospital following a long illness.

Burial will be under the direction of the Crawford Funeral Home in Killeen with McGuire Funeral Home in Vivian assisting. Mixon was born May 12, 1912 at Bivins, Texas. He was a verteran of World War II and the Korean Conflict. He retired as an Army Staff Sgt. from Fort Hood in 1961, following 21 years of active service.

Survivors include three sons, Vester M. Mixon, Jr. of Whitman, Texas, Marion L. Mixon of Fort Hood, Texas, and Arvil Ray Mixon of Fort Polk; four daughters, Mrs. Cynthia A. Bean of Newland, NC, Mrs. Beverly J. Hill of Berleson, Texas, Mrs. Sandra K. Scott of Hosston, LA and Melinda F. Kethchum of Addis, and two brothers, Freddie Mixon of Kilgore, Texas and Frankie Mixon of Odessa, Texas and four sisters, Elizabeth Maddox of Paradis, Evelyn Whatley of Linden, Texas, and Carrie McChaney and Virginia Copeland both of Kilgore, Texas.

Parents:
Julius M. Mixon (1883 - 1979)
Eula Ann Johnson Mixon (1893 - 1975)
Sibling Frankie Melvin Mixon (1930 - 1983)

SSgt US Army WW II Korea

Burial Mount Gilead Cemetery, Vivian, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, New Section

Created by Ellen Stevens Jan 25, 2010
-- Find A Grave Memorial #47131825, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47131825
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Sources

1. Ancestry Trees
2. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
3. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
4. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
5. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
6. North Carolina Divorce Index, 1958-2004
7. French Birth-death Certificate for Rusty Ray Mixon
8. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
- Lawton, Oklahoma, City Directory, 1952, p 255
9. Alabama, Marriage Collection, 1800-1969
10. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
11. Family Bibles
12. Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
13. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
14. Obituaries from Texas
15. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
16. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012
- Date: 2010;
17. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
- Vol 1 & 2
18. Texas, Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011
19. Ancestry Comments