World War I Monument

Pvt. Grover Benjamin Bannister, U.S. Army

Pvt. Frank Welker Coit, U.S. Army

PFC Dick Dulaney, U.S. Army Med. Corps

Appr. Seaman Sidney McKillop Empey, USNR

1st Sgt. Clyde Osborne Hoffman, U.S. Army

S2c Ulysses Simpson Houser, U.S. Navy

Pfc. Ernest Moore, U.S. Army

Sgt. Michael Hugh O’Connor, U.S. Army

Pvt. Charles A. Penwright, USMC

PFC James Lincoln Reynolds, U.S. Army

Cpl. Stephen Robert “Bob” Shaw, U.S. Army

Pvt. Laurence L. Sheckler, U.S. Army

2nd Lt. Billy Jack Evans
U.S. Army Air Forces
Born June 11, 1922. Died May 16, 1943

Note: One of the 44 young men we are honoring had ties to the former Evans Cleaners in downtown El Reno. He worked there, and his father started the business.

Tech. Sgt. James Alfred Hinds (Class of 1938)
U.S. Army Air Forces
Born June 14, 1918. Died June 28, 1943 (Wyoming)

Served as an engineer/top turret gunner on a Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress heavy bomber.

Melvin W. Jacks
U.S. Army
Born September 23, 1924. Died April 19, 1945

Technician 4th Grade Melvin W. “Rookie” Jacks, one of four brothers who served in World War II, was a radio operator with the B-573rd Signal Air Warning battalion.