Wounded on February 4th, 1945.
Memorial services for Pfc. Billy Joe Franklin, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Franklin, 723 North Garfield, who died of wounds in the India-Burma area, will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the N.S. Griggs Funeral Chapel. Rev. A.E. Wilson, pastor of the Buchanan Street Baptist Church, will conduct the services.
Franklin had been fighting overseas with the 124th Cavalry for 18 months. He had been in service two years to a day when the parents received the War Department telegram; he entered March 16, 1943.
He was a 1942 graduate of Amarillo High School. As a lad, he was a Globe-News carrier boy. He was with the engineering department of the Santa Fe at the time he entered service.
After his training, Billy Joe was sent to North Africa, and then to Calcutta, where he was stationed until October, 1944, when he was transferred to cavalry outfit in Burma.
He was last home on furlough in August, 1944.
Besides the parents, the immediate survivors are three sisters, Mrs. Clarence J. Flanagan, 1814 Fillmore; and Betty and Louise Franklin. Betty is Billy Joe's twin.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, March 21, 1945)
Memorial services for Pfc. Billy Joe Franklin, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Franklin, 723 North Garfield, who died of wounds in the India-Burma area, will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the N.S. Griggs Funeral Chapel. Rev. A.E. Wilson, pastor of the Buchanan Street Baptist Church, will conduct the services.
Franklin had been fighting overseas with the 124th Cavalry for 18 months. He had been in service two years to a day when the parents received the War Department telegram; he entered March 16, 1943.
He was a 1942 graduate of Amarillo High School. As a lad, he was a Globe-News carrier boy. He was with the engineering department of the Santa Fe at the time he entered service.
After his training, Billy Joe was sent to North Africa, and then to Calcutta, where he was stationed until October, 1944, when he was transferred to cavalry outfit in Burma.
He was last home on furlough in August, 1944.
Besides the parents, the immediate survivors are three sisters, Mrs. Clarence J. Flanagan, 1814 Fillmore; and Betty and Louise Franklin. Betty is Billy Joe's twin.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, March 21, 1945)
Wounded on February 4th, 1945.
Memorial services for Pfc. Billy Joe Franklin, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Franklin, 723 North Garfield, who died of wounds in the India-Burma area, will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the N.S. Griggs Funeral Chapel. Rev. A.E. Wilson, pastor of the Buchanan Street Baptist Church, will conduct the services.
Franklin had been fighting overseas with the 124th Cavalry for 18 months. He had been in service two years to a day when the parents received the War Department telegram; he entered March 16, 1943.
He was a 1942 graduate of Amarillo High School. As a lad, he was a Globe-News carrier boy. He was with the engineering department of the Santa Fe at the time he entered service.
After his training, Billy Joe was sent to North Africa, and then to Calcutta, where he was stationed until October, 1944, when he was transferred to cavalry outfit in Burma.
He was last home on furlough in August, 1944.
Besides the parents, the immediate survivors are three sisters, Mrs. Clarence J. Flanagan, 1814 Fillmore; and Betty and Louise Franklin. Betty is Billy Joe's twin.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, March 21, 1945)
Memorial services for Pfc. Billy Joe Franklin, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Franklin, 723 North Garfield, who died of wounds in the India-Burma area, will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the N.S. Griggs Funeral Chapel. Rev. A.E. Wilson, pastor of the Buchanan Street Baptist Church, will conduct the services.
Franklin had been fighting overseas with the 124th Cavalry for 18 months. He had been in service two years to a day when the parents received the War Department telegram; he entered March 16, 1943.
He was a 1942 graduate of Amarillo High School. As a lad, he was a Globe-News carrier boy. He was with the engineering department of the Santa Fe at the time he entered service.
After his training, Billy Joe was sent to North Africa, and then to Calcutta, where he was stationed until October, 1944, when he was transferred to cavalry outfit in Burma.
He was last home on furlough in August, 1944.
Besides the parents, the immediate survivors are three sisters, Mrs. Clarence J. Flanagan, 1814 Fillmore; and Betty and Louise Franklin. Betty is Billy Joe's twin.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, March 21, 1945)
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