Obituary of Col. Jefferson Davis Petty, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Maribette Sifford Date: 22 Aug 2013
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Source:Forrest City Times-Herald, Forrest City, Arkansas

PETTY, Col. Jefferson Davis   DoB : June, 1895   DoD: 1995       Ref.: 1995008

Funeral services were held Tuesday in Little Rock for Colonel Jefferson Davis
Petty (USArmy, Ret.), the husband of the former Margaret Pettus Howard of
Forrest City, who survives him.
Col. Petty, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday in June, was the
recipient of many military honors including a Presidential Citation and a Purple
Heart awarded at St. Mihiel during World War I.
Born in 1895 in Kennett, Missouri, Col. Petty enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1928
and served throughout WWI.  He then attended the University of Nebraska, where
he waqs a member of the baseball team, and earned the Bachelor’s Degree in
Agriculture.  He then attended Oficers Training School at Fort Benning, Georgia,
and served in the Civilian Cnservation Corps (CCC) in Arkansas and California,
had active duty in Japan during World War II, and afterwards was assigned to
Korea with the United National Civil Assistance Command.  He retired in 1953 and
moved to Arkansas, home of his wife, a onetime Director of Alumni for Lyon
College in Batesville.
Col. Pettus was a Mason and holds 50 year membership status in three Masonic
chapters.
Graveside services were held Tuesday morning at the National Cemetery by Griffin
Leggett Healey & Roth.  Attending were Mrs. Buford (Polly) Jones, her son,
Donnie Jones, and other realtives of the Pettus family in East Arkansas.
Memorials may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice.

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Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas