Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....POOLE, PFC Charles B. February 18, 1968 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy Russell meemawpeg7@gmail.com April 27, 2019, 4:09 pm Breckinridge County Herald-News, Hardinsburg, Ky., Thursday, March 7, 1968 OBITUARY SERVICES HELD FOR COUNTY'S FIRST WAR CASUALTY Funeral services were conducted on Thursday, February 29, 1968 at Dowell's Funeral Home in Hardinsburg for PFC Charles B. POOLE, age 19, who was killed in action in Vietnam on February 18, 1968. He was the first casualty of the Vietnam Conflict from Breckinridge County. Charles was the son of Mrs. Jesse M. STILLWELL of Route 3, Hardinsburg, and the grandson of Mr. & Mrs. Lee Allen LASLIE of Route 3. Burial was in the New Bethel Cemetery. PALLBEARERS: Charles KERR Paul ALEXANDER Everett MOORE Stafford O'DONOGHUE Paul C. BUTLER Paul Gray Additional Comments: PFC Charles B. POOLE and his father, George Thomas POOLE have a tombstone. Breckinridge County, Ky Cemeteries, Volume one, published in 1991: #0259 New Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, located 5 miles north of Hardinsburg, Ky on New Bethel--Stephensport Road, off KY 259. POOLE, PFC Charles B. 12 Dec 1948 -- 18 Feb 1968 son of George Thomas "Tom" POOLE & Jessie M. LASLIE POOLE, T. (George Thomas "Tom") 20 Feb 1919 -- 14 Dec 1954 son of Charles D. POOLE & Lula Jane CARWILE Peggy Russell File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/breckinridge/obits/p/poole10363gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/