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PVT Timoteo Garcia Melendez

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PVT Timoteo Garcia Melendez Veteran

Birth
Texas, USA
Death
6 Oct 1944 (aged 22)
Belgium
Burial
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section: E ~ Site: 9737
Memorial ID
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PVT U.S. ARMY
WORLD WAR II

Timoteo was the 22 year old son of Valentin Melendez (Mexico) and Barbara Sillas Garcia (Fort Davis, Texas) of 3726 Rivera in El Paso, El Paso Co., Texas. He was married on April 10, 1944 in Los Angeles Co., California to Josefina Montoya, daughter of Miguel Montoya and Caterina Saenz.

Timoteo was actively serving with the U.S. Army's 506th Para-Infantry - 101 Airborne Division in Belguim, where He was killed during World War II. He was formerly buried in Liege, Beligium then on Dec. 5, 1950, He was reinterred at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso, Texas.

Informant and next of kin:
Sister: Mrs. Lucillia G. Zepeda
4321 Gratian Street
Los Angeles, California

1930 U.S. Census - El Paso,
El Paso Co., Texas:
Barbara S. Garcia 45 Texas
(widowed)
Jose (son) 21 Texas
Lucilla (daughter) 16 Texas
TIMOTEO MELENDEZ (son) 7 TX

Sources:
1930 U.S. Census
CA County Marriages: 1850-1952
United States Cemetery Internment
Control Forms: 1928-1962
PVT U.S. ARMY
WORLD WAR II

Timoteo was the 22 year old son of Valentin Melendez (Mexico) and Barbara Sillas Garcia (Fort Davis, Texas) of 3726 Rivera in El Paso, El Paso Co., Texas. He was married on April 10, 1944 in Los Angeles Co., California to Josefina Montoya, daughter of Miguel Montoya and Caterina Saenz.

Timoteo was actively serving with the U.S. Army's 506th Para-Infantry - 101 Airborne Division in Belguim, where He was killed during World War II. He was formerly buried in Liege, Beligium then on Dec. 5, 1950, He was reinterred at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso, Texas.

Informant and next of kin:
Sister: Mrs. Lucillia G. Zepeda
4321 Gratian Street
Los Angeles, California

1930 U.S. Census - El Paso,
El Paso Co., Texas:
Barbara S. Garcia 45 Texas
(widowed)
Jose (son) 21 Texas
Lucilla (daughter) 16 Texas
TIMOTEO MELENDEZ (son) 7 TX

Sources:
1930 U.S. Census
CA County Marriages: 1850-1952
United States Cemetery Internment
Control Forms: 1928-1962

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