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WADE LIVESAY

Decorated veteran
Wade Livesay, 63,
service Tuesday

   TABERNACLE - Wade Livesay, 63, of Sandra Lane, died Saturday in Memorial Hospital of Burlington County, Mount Holly.
   Born in Mount Vernon, Ky., Mr. Livesay lived in Iowa before moving to Tabernacle 11 years ago. Employed as an insurance agent with the Sun Life Insurance Co. of Moorestown, he served the Trenton area.
   Retiring in 1975 as a 30-year Army career veteran, he served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam conflict. He earned the Silver Star during tile Vietnam conflict
   An ROTC chief instructor in Virginia. he then moved to Iowa as administrator of the ROTC program at the University of Iowa.
   Surviving are his wife, Kazuko Mikame Livesay; and three sisters who live in Kentucky.
   Private funeral services will be held Tuesday at the Chapel of the New Jersey Veterans Cemetery in Arneytown. There will be no calling hours.
   Memorial contributions may be made to the Medford Farms Emergency Squad, Route 206, Vincentown, N.J. 08088.
  Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Dennison Funeral Home , 41 Main St., Vincentown .

[Trenton Evening Times, Trenton, BJ, Mon, 10 Nov 1986, page 03[


[courtesy of Fairbanks]

Grave marker for Wade Livesay in Section D, Site 382, Brig.. Gen. Wm. C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Arneytown (Burlington county), New Jersey.

 

Wade registered for the draft in Mt. Vernon, KY on 26 November 1941 and was inducted into the Army on 17 January 1943.

He was discharged on 27 November 1945 but e-enlisted on 8 July 1948.

Spc/3 Livesay was a member of Company "K” 508 Airborne Infantry, on 25 December 1955.

He married Kazuko Mikame in Fukuoka, (Fukuoka Prefecture), Japan on 19 August 1957.  she survived him until her passing on 14 January 2020 and was buried by his side.

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