Pvt Clifford Leon Conley

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Pvt Clifford Leon Conley Veteran

Birth
Custer City, Custer County, Oklahoma, USA
Death
14 Oct 1956 (aged 29)
Bovina, Parmer County, Texas, USA
Burial
Custer County, Oklahoma, USA GPS-Latitude: 35.7259861, Longitude: -98.8448194
Memorial ID
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Residence 1935 Harrison, Dewey, Oklahoma
Residence 1945 Putnam, Dewey, Oklahoma, USA
Home in 1950 Medina, Texas, USA
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Enlisted in the U.S. Army on September 18, 1945 and was discharged on January 24, 1946 with an honorable record. WWII Victory Medal awarded - No Decorations.

The Death Certificate for Clifford Leon Conley tells us he was a farm laborer and he never married.
He died at the age of 29 due to a gun shot wound to the stomach.
Informant: Dewane Conley

The Thomas Tribune (Thomas, Oklahoma) 18 Oct 1956, Thu. Page 8
"CONLEY SERVICES HELD WEDNESDAY

Funeral services for Clifford Leon Conley, 29, were held Wednesday afternoon in the Thomas First Methodist Church with Rev. Marion McDaniel officiating. He died early Sunday morning at his home near Bovina, Texas.

His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Conley, formerly lived in the Putnam community but now live at Matalia, Texas. Other survivors are a brother, Dwayne, of Bovina, and a sister, Mrs. Joe Hale, Lubbock, Texas.

Burial was in the Beck Cemetery, west of Thomas, under the direction of the Lockstone Funeral Home."
Residence 1935 Harrison, Dewey, Oklahoma
Residence 1945 Putnam, Dewey, Oklahoma, USA
Home in 1950 Medina, Texas, USA
*
Enlisted in the U.S. Army on September 18, 1945 and was discharged on January 24, 1946 with an honorable record. WWII Victory Medal awarded - No Decorations.

The Death Certificate for Clifford Leon Conley tells us he was a farm laborer and he never married.
He died at the age of 29 due to a gun shot wound to the stomach.
Informant: Dewane Conley

The Thomas Tribune (Thomas, Oklahoma) 18 Oct 1956, Thu. Page 8
"CONLEY SERVICES HELD WEDNESDAY

Funeral services for Clifford Leon Conley, 29, were held Wednesday afternoon in the Thomas First Methodist Church with Rev. Marion McDaniel officiating. He died early Sunday morning at his home near Bovina, Texas.

His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Conley, formerly lived in the Putnam community but now live at Matalia, Texas. Other survivors are a brother, Dwayne, of Bovina, and a sister, Mrs. Joe Hale, Lubbock, Texas.

Burial was in the Beck Cemetery, west of Thomas, under the direction of the Lockstone Funeral Home."

Inscription

Military Headstone

CLIFFORD L. CONLEY
Texas
PVT. U.S. Army
World War II
May 31, 1927 - Oct 14, 1956

Family Stone

CLIFFORD LEON
May 31, 1927
Oct. 13, 1957

Note: The family stone has the wrong day of death.