FLOYD COUNTY, GA - OBITS - James Kenneth Cornelison

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Obituary for James Kenneth Cornelison, July 12, 1929 -
October 04, 1983


Funeral services for James Kenneth Cornelison Sr., 54,
who died Tuesday in a Rome hospital, will be held at 11
A.M. Friday in Heritage Chapel of Jennings Funeral Home
with James Michael Eads officiating.  Interment will be
in East View Cemetery with full military rites accorded
by personnel of Fort Gillem, Atlanta.


Mr. Cornelison was born July 12, 1929, in Grey County,
Texas, son of Mrs. Blanche Atkins McCary and the late
Frances L. Cornelison, who died July 18, 1943.  In 1968
he retired as Sgt. 1st Class, Maintenance Foreman, after
20 years' active duty with the U.S. Army and had made his
home in Rome since then.  He attended the Baptist Church.


Serving in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, he was
awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge, Presidential Unit
Citation, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart with one
Bronze Cluster, Meritorious Service Medal, National
Defense Service Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Good
Conduct Medal, Korean Service and Campaign Medal, and the
Vietnam Service and Campaign Medal.


Survivors include the widow, the former Donzie R.
Brackett, to whom he was married Jan. 12, 1949; a son,
James Kenneth Cornelison Jr., Rome; his mother, Mrs.
Blanche Cornelison McCary, Rome; a sister, Mrs. Betty
Jane Lassiter, Melbourne, Fla., and two brothers, Donald
E. Cornelison, Jonesboro, and Dan R. Cornelison, Forest
Part.


Clarence Atkins
Olathe, Kansas
clarence@atkins.net