Carl Wayne Hagan (son of James Stuart Hagan and Bessie Mark) was born December 24, 1916 in Mercer County, MO. He married Mina Louise Phillips on July 04, 1944 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Phillips and Hattie Geneva Holtzclaw. Carl Wayne Hagan was born on December 24, 1916. He was born in Lindley Twsp, Mercer Co, Missouri on a cold winter night. Missouri was then a picture of the past. Small towns and farmland dominated the landscape, and the most common form of transportation was the horse and buggy. There were about 3 houses every mile. He was the ninth of ten children-four girls and six boys. Carl was closest to Ferril, his younger brother. Carl's family was Methodist. In the days before the family had a car, they went to a Baptist church because it was 1.5 miles closer than the Methodist church. The farm had a lot of crops and bee hives on it. The family ate large, heavy meals because of the hard labor required on the farm. There was always fresh fruit in season because of the orchards, and plenty of honey and corn. They were also provided with meat, milk, eggs, and other vegetables from the farm. Carl wore old hand-me-down bib overalls for clothes. Carl remembered President Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt as the famous people of his time. Carl was a Republican, as were his parents. Carl was drafted into the Army during World War II when he was 26 years old. He met Louise Phillips at the Arches, a small restaurant that used to exist at the junction of PCH and the 55 freeway in Newport Beach, California. They began dating that night. She was only 17 at the time, but he didn't know how old she was. They got married in Colorado Springs, Colorado on July 4, 1944. Two weeks after their wedding date, Carl was on the train to go overseas. It would be over a year before they saw each other again. Carl was in the 104th Infantry Division of the US Army, known as the Timberwolf Division. Rising to the rank of Staff Sargent, Carl saw action from landing in Normandy, France, through liberation of several towns in Holland, and into the Nazi Fatherland to meet the Russians at the Mulde River. During the campaign in Holland, he was buried alive by a German tank. The blast came, and he squatted down over his shovel in the foxhole he had been digging. He remained buried with his small pocket of air until his legs couldn't hold him. He dug himself out and searched for survivors. Carl returned home in 1945, and was slated to engage in the Pacific War. He was spared from re-deployment to Japan by the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Carl and Louise lived on Bessie and James Hagan's farm for one year, then moved to California. Linda was born in California (Orange County), and was soon followed by Mark, Bruce, Jerry, Frank, a stillborn boy, and Kathy Hagan. Jerry passed away at age 21 or 22. All of the remaining children were alive at the time of his death. More About Carl Wayne Hagan:Military service: Bet. 1944 - 1945, World War II, Timberwolf Division.Occupation: Carpenter.Residence 1: Bet. 1916 - 1946, Mercer County, MO.Residence 2: Bet. 1946 - 2001, Orange County, California.Residence 3: Aft. 2001, Oxnard, CA. More About Carl Wayne Hagan and Mina Louise Phillips:Marriage: July 04, 1944, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Children of Carl Wayne Hagan and Mina Louise Phillips are: 2 surviving Daughters and 3 surviving Sons and the late Gerald Alan HAGAN (1951-1972).