JACK BRACE DROWNED THREE HOURS AFTER ARRIVAL HOME ON LEAVE
Funeral services were held at the Christian Church in Canadian for Coxswain Harold Jack BRACE, who drowned at the Hedgecoke ranch near Goodnight on the afternoon of June 26, 1944, only three hours after his arrival on leave from the Navy to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Addison BRACE.
Coxswain BRACE was an excellent swimmer, according to his father, an employee of the Hedgecoke ranch and had been in several major battles, with four enemy planes to his credit as gunner on the battleship South Dakota.
Young BRACE was 19 years of age. A brother, Billy, 17, was a Hemphill County News carrier here until the family moved to Indiana several years ago. He was a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. SLATER, of Canadian.
(Published in The Hemphill County News (Canadian, TX), June 30, 1944.)
(Submitted by Angie Mitchell Martin)
JACK BRACE DROWNED THREE HOURS AFTER ARRIVAL HOME ON LEAVE
Funeral services were held at the Christian Church in Canadian for Coxswain Harold Jack BRACE, who drowned at the Hedgecoke ranch near Goodnight on the afternoon of June 26, 1944, only three hours after his arrival on leave from the Navy to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Addison BRACE.
Coxswain BRACE was an excellent swimmer, according to his father, an employee of the Hedgecoke ranch and had been in several major battles, with four enemy planes to his credit as gunner on the battleship South Dakota.
Young BRACE was 19 years of age. A brother, Billy, 17, was a Hemphill County News carrier here until the family moved to Indiana several years ago. He was a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. SLATER, of Canadian.
(Published in The Hemphill County News (Canadian, TX), June 30, 1944.)
(Submitted by Angie Mitchell Martin)
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