Obituaries: 1st Lt. John D. Hammons, 1945, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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J. D. Hammons Reported Killed In Action July 21

Mrs. Lucille McKinney Hammons of Winnfield was informed by the War Department
Wednesday that her husband, 1st Lt. John D. Hammons had been killed in action
in France on July 21, 1944.  Mrs. Hammons had been notified last August that
her husband had been missing in action since that date, but no other
information had been available concerning hime since that time.

Lt. Hammons, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Hammons of Gaars Mill entered
service Sept. 14, 1942, as a 2nd Lieutenant, while attending Louisiana State
University.  Following his training at Camp Robinson, Ark., and Camp Miles
Standish, Taunton, Miss., he was sent overseas in May, 1943.  He was serving
with the infantry.

Besides his wife and parents, he has one brother, Pfc. Samuel Dean Hammons,
former F. S. A. director of Sabine Parish, but now with the ninth army in
Germany; and one sister, Mrs. Talmadge Parker of Shreveport.

A graduate of the Gaars Mill High School, he was outstanding in both high 
school and college work and was prominent in religious activities.