Crisp-Telfair-Tift County GaArchives Obituaries.....DOWDY, LT COL JOHN October 19, 1945 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 May 17, 2011, 2:06 pm CORDELE DISPATCH TIFTON-LT COL JOHN DOWDY WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN GERMANY SEPT.16 ACCORDING TO A MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT ON OCT.4.BY HIS MOTHER MRS EVA MAE DOWDY. COL DOWDY WAS BORN IN TELFAIR COUNTY FEB.28,1918. HE ATTENDED THE McRAE - HELENA SCHOOL.GORDON MILITARY COLLEGE, AND LATER RECEIVED HIS DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF GA., WHERE HE WAS A MEMBER OF PI KAPPA ALPHA SOCIAL FRATERNITY. COL DOWDY ENTERED THE ARMY IN 1939 AS A SECOND LIETUNENT. HE WAS ONE OF THE VERY FEW MEN WHO WENT FROM THIS RANK TO LIEUTRNANT COLONEL IN THE SAME REGIMENT , WHICH WAS THE 22ND INFANTRY OF THE FAMED 4TH DIVISION THAT SPEARHEADED THE NORMANDY ATTACK. HE WAS AWARDE THE PURPLE HEART FOR WOUNDS RECEIVED IN FRANCE ON JUNE 28.AFTER TWO MONTHS TREATMENT IN AN ENGLAND HOSPITAL .COL DOWDY RETURNED TO HIS DUTIES AS FIRST BATTALION COMMANDER. COL DOWDY IS THE SON OF MRS EVA MAE DOWDY AND THE LATE JOHN DOWDY ,H.PRESCOTT DOWDY OF TIFTON,FORMERLY CONNECTED WITH THE LIBERTY NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, IS AN ONLY BROTHER .HE IS A NEPHEW OF MR AND MRS E.G. BRYAN ,OF MACON Additional Comments: A WW11 GOLDEN BOY File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/obits/d/dowdy13306ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb