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DEWEY K. ESTES

 
(courtesy of Joyce Gore Locke)

Grave markers for Dewey K. Estes in the Portales Cemetery, Portales (Roosevelt county), New Mexico.

 

Dewey, registered for the draft in Levelland, TX ion 16 October 1940 and was inducted into the Army at Lubbock, TX on 25 November 1941.

He married Lola Christine Rogers in Rockwall, TX, probably  while home on furlough.

It was not until 7 March 1945 that SSgt Estes was transferred  from 11th Reinforcement Depot to Company "I", 508th,  PIR. Until that time he had been a member of the 509th PIR.

Just 5 months later, SSgt Estes was transferred to the 513th PIR.

 

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