Obit of Arlus Ray Underwood (u536) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  3 Sep 2002
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Surnames: Underwood, Mathews, Vankemseke, Ortego, Winskey, Kelly, Loveland 

Originally posted at:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/5118

Graveside services for retired Army Staff Sgt. Arlus Ray Underwood, 
65, of Florence was at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery in San 
Antonio, Texas.

Underwood died Friday at a Round Rock Nursing Home.

He was born on October 30, 1931, in Strong City, Oklahoma and was 
raised and educated in Dodge City, Kansas.

Underwood had lived in the Florence area since 1968.

Before he retired in 1975 from the U.S. Army with 25 years of 
service, he had been awarded the Purple Heart Medal, the National 
Defense Service Medal, the Good Conduct Medal eight times, the 
Combat Infantryman Badge, the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal and 
the Vietnam Service Medal with one silver service star.

Underwood had served to tours of duty in the Vietnam War.

He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8577 in 
Copperas Cove.

Survivors include his wife, Anneliese Underwood of Florence; two 
sons, Gary Ray Underwood of Copperas Cove and Jimmy Lee Underwood of 
Florence; four daughters Gabrielle Mathews of Houston, Marina 
Vankemseke of Hatboro, Pa and Charlene Ortego and Linda Winkey, both 
of Georgetown; one brother, Howard Underwood of Derby, Kansas; two 
sisters, Phynon Kelly and Leona Lovelace, both of Liberal, Kansas 
and 12 grandchildren.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK