Joe Bailey Whitener, Jr.

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Jodi Whitener
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Birth Date: 10-4-1930 Death Date: 10-14-1951

Service

Sergeant United States Air Force

Korean War Casualty

Biography

None submitted to date

Others Researching This Family

J Lingg

Burial Site

Section B
Row 3B
Plot 5

Site Map Location

Headstone Photograph, Inscription & Sentiments

Additional Photos & Documentation

Birth Records of Dickens County, TX Page 43, Book 11

Plane Crash Article

Family page on Jodie

Obituary

Military Service For Sgt. Joe Whitener Held Tues., Nov. 13

Graveside military services were held for Sgt. Joe B. Whitener, Jr., 21, at 2 p.m. Tuesday, November 13, 1951, with Chaplain T. O. Sillmen of Reese Air Force Base officiating.

Whitener, flight engineer on a B-29 was killed when his plane crashed into a hanger while landing in Japan on October 14, 1951. He was born in Spur on October 4, 1930, and attended the Spur schools. Whitener was converted early in life and joined the Baptist Church.

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. C. W. McCormick of San Mateo, Calif and his father Joe, B. Whitener of Spur.

Pallbearers were Kelley Marsh, Joe Jeffers, Durwood Woodward, Earnest Kearney, Larry Boothe, and V. D. Pippins.

Burial was in the Spur cemetery under the direction of Campbell´s Funeral Chapel.

©The Texas Spur, Thursday, November 15, 1951

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