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HOMER A. LIDE

Homer A. Lide

  CANTON - Services for Homer A. Lide, 70, Canton, are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday in Eubank Funeral Home chapel in Canton with the Rev. D.W. McCasland officiating.
   Burial will be in Haven of Memories Memorial Park, Canton.
   Mr. Lide died Sunday afternoon in a Tyler hospital after a brief illness. He was born Dec. 7, 1919, in Kaufman and grew up in the Wallace community and graduated from Canton High School. He attended First United Methodist Church in Canton and served in 508th Parachute Infantry in the European Theater. He was retired after 23 years of service from Texaco Co. as a security guard.
   Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Georgia Mae Lide, Canton; two sons, George Allan Lide, Mount Belview, and Gary Michael Lide, Crandall; two daughters, Pamela Jean Fontenot, Port Arthur, and Judy Karen Maxwell, Houston; two brothers, Harold Lide, Fort Worth, and Buck Lide, Nederland; three sisters, Janis Baskin, Martins Mill, Vernadene Holland, Euless, and Maxine Paul, Dallas; and six grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Thomas Conner, Peace Callahan, Richard Callahan, Virgil Brown, William Glotiaux and Johnny Durgin. Clipping location on Tyler Morning Telegraph page 6 jumpmaster Member

[Tyler Morning Telegraph Tyler, TX, 30 Jan 1990, Tue, Page 6]


[courtesy of Earnest Ward]

Grave marker for Homer A. Lide in Section C, Row 8, Haven of Memories Cemetery, Canton (Van Zandt county), Texas.

 

Homer registered for the draft in Hawthorne, CA on 1 July 1941 and was inducted at Los Angeles, CA on 27 July 1944.

Pfc Lide was transferred from either the 504th or 505th PIR [the order co-mingled the men listed in the order without distinction] to Co A, 508th PIR on 16 October 1945.

On November 18, 1946, Homer was listed as a passenger on the USAT Jarret M. Huddleston arriving in New York, NY.  He was undoubtedly destined for a discharge processing center somewhere, perhaps at Fort Dix, NJ.

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