H.P. Adams,
Corregidor Veteran, Dies
Summerville,
Hayett P. Adams, 58, veteran of the seige of Corregidor during World War II and a retired Army Chief warrant officer, died Thursday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Columbia. He had been ill for several months.
Funeral services will take place at 3 p.m. at Parks Funeral Chapel with The Rev. C.L. Sheedy Officiating. Burial was in Summerville Cemetery.
Mr. Adams was a paymaster on duty with the Army in the Phillippines at the time Of Pearl Harbor and was evacualed to the island of Corregidor from the mainland with other American troops. He was taken as a prisoner of war in May of 1942 when the small outposts on the island fell to the Japanese where he spent 34 months in a Japanese prison camp before his release by Americans when they re-invaded the island.
He made his home in Summerville following his retirement. He was a native of Alabama. He was the son of the late William A. Adams and Mrs Clifton Adams.
Corregidor Veteran, Dies
Summerville,
Hayett P. Adams, 58, veteran of the seige of Corregidor during World War II and a retired Army Chief warrant officer, died Thursday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Columbia. He had been ill for several months.
Funeral services will take place at 3 p.m. at Parks Funeral Chapel with The Rev. C.L. Sheedy Officiating. Burial was in Summerville Cemetery.
Mr. Adams was a paymaster on duty with the Army in the Phillippines at the time Of Pearl Harbor and was evacualed to the island of Corregidor from the mainland with other American troops. He was taken as a prisoner of war in May of 1942 when the small outposts on the island fell to the Japanese where he spent 34 months in a Japanese prison camp before his release by Americans when they re-invaded the island.
He made his home in Summerville following his retirement. He was a native of Alabama. He was the son of the late William A. Adams and Mrs Clifton Adams.
H.P. Adams,
Corregidor Veteran, Dies
Summerville,
Hayett P. Adams, 58, veteran of the seige of Corregidor during World War II and a retired Army Chief warrant officer, died Thursday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Columbia. He had been ill for several months.
Funeral services will take place at 3 p.m. at Parks Funeral Chapel with The Rev. C.L. Sheedy Officiating. Burial was in Summerville Cemetery.
Mr. Adams was a paymaster on duty with the Army in the Phillippines at the time Of Pearl Harbor and was evacualed to the island of Corregidor from the mainland with other American troops. He was taken as a prisoner of war in May of 1942 when the small outposts on the island fell to the Japanese where he spent 34 months in a Japanese prison camp before his release by Americans when they re-invaded the island.
He made his home in Summerville following his retirement. He was a native of Alabama. He was the son of the late William A. Adams and Mrs Clifton Adams.
Corregidor Veteran, Dies
Summerville,
Hayett P. Adams, 58, veteran of the seige of Corregidor during World War II and a retired Army Chief warrant officer, died Thursday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Columbia. He had been ill for several months.
Funeral services will take place at 3 p.m. at Parks Funeral Chapel with The Rev. C.L. Sheedy Officiating. Burial was in Summerville Cemetery.
Mr. Adams was a paymaster on duty with the Army in the Phillippines at the time Of Pearl Harbor and was evacualed to the island of Corregidor from the mainland with other American troops. He was taken as a prisoner of war in May of 1942 when the small outposts on the island fell to the Japanese where he spent 34 months in a Japanese prison camp before his release by Americans when they re-invaded the island.
He made his home in Summerville following his retirement. He was a native of Alabama. He was the son of the late William A. Adams and Mrs Clifton Adams.
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