Frank Casey
Frank Casey
World War II
Jan. 18, 1943 – Dec. 26, 1945
Army Private First Class
Marksman Rifle
Two Bronze Service Stars
Good Conduct Medal
WWII Victory Ribbon
American Theater Ribbon
AP Theater Ribbon
Frank Casey
World War II
Jan. 18, 1943 – Dec. 26, 1945
Army Private First Class
Marksman Rifle
Two Bronze Service Stars
Good Conduct Medal
WWII Victory Ribbon
American Theater Ribbon
AP Theater Ribbon
Douglas L. Brown
MSG (retired), U.S. Army.
August 1986 to August 2008
Attended basic training at Fort Knox, Ky.
Advanced individual training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Trained as a medic.
Assignments include Fort Stewart, Ga., Camp Hovey, Korea, Fort Ord, California.
Army recruiting at Boston, Mass., Fort Hood (Fort Cavazos), Texas, Bad Aibling Station, Germany, U.S. Army Central Command, Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga.
Dan Castrop, 96, served in the Merchant Marines from 1945-46.
He was stationed in California. He then served in the U.S. Army, having re-enlisted for an 18-month tour at the conclusion of the war.
He was stationed then in Japan, operating vehicles to transports different units of service from one location the next.
Castrop had to learn the safest and quickest routes to move the troops and to avoid being ambushed.
Frank Welker Coit
Private, U.S. Army
Born Jan. 16, 1892
Died Sept. 27, 1918
After his family moved to the El Reno area from Missouri, Frank Welker Coit - who like many during that era bore his mother’s maiden name as his middle name - attended grade school in El Reno.
Freddie Hobson
USAF 10/23/1961 - 10/22/1965
Served in Italy for 15 months and Texas for 33 months.
Top secret security clearance.
Honorably discharged as E-4 Sergeant.
Grover Benjamin Bannister
Private, U.S. Army Coastal Artillery Corps, Company 1
Born Oct. 8, 1888
Died Oct. 6, 1918
Grover Benjamin Bannister was the son of Judge Charles A. Bannister and Josephine Wilma (Hanks) Bannister.
He was born Oct. 8, 1888, in Pratt County, Kan., and he and his family moved to Oklahoma in 1889, first settling on a farm east of El Reno. In 1895, the family built a new home at 200 N. Barker Avenue in El Reno, where they lived for decades thereafter.
Garland Parker
Army Air Corp 1945-46, served in Germany.
► Nov. 11, 1918, was largely considered the end of the “war to end all wars,” even though the Treaty of Versailles, which officially ended World War I, was signed roughly seven months later on June 28, 1919.
► While Veterans Day is an American holiday, Canada, Great Britain, Australia and France also honor the veterans of World War I and World War II on or near Nov. 11. Canada celebrates Remembrance Day, while Britain observes Remembrance Sunday each year on the second Sunday of November.