HARRY C. MONROE
Harry C. Monroe, age 38, died unexpectedly Friday as a result of a heart seizure in Roanoke, Virginia, where he was living.
Mr. Monroe was a descendent of the Cary family, one of Conecuh's pioneer families in the Brooklyn area. He lived in Evergreen for some time and was a highly popular young man whose death came as a great shock to his family and many friends.
Funeral services' were held in Roanoke on Sunday and here Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the Cope Chapel. The Rev. Robert Moore and the Rev. Jesse Guy officiated. Burial followed in Magnolia Cemetery with Cope Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Surviving are the wife, Mrs. Beth Hart Monroe; a son, Harry C, Jr.,; a daughter, Rebecca; mother, Mrs. R. H. Meacham, Chattanooga; three brothers, John, Macon, Ga., James, Mobile, and Mims, Pensacola.
Active pallbearers were Waynard Price, Senator Bob Kendall, Dr. W. B. Turk, Robert Glass, L. W. Price, Jr., and Knud Nielsen, Jr.
[The Evergreen Courant, Evergreen, AL, 03 Dec 1959, Thu, Page 5]
Death Certificate |
[courtesy of Melody Ridgeway]
Grave marker for Harry C. Monroe in Magnolia Cemetery,
Evergreen (Conecuh county), Alabama,
Harry registered for the draft in Birmingham AL on 16
February 1942 and was into the Army inducted at Fort McClellan, AL on 21
October 1942.
On 28 October 1942, Pvt Monroe was transferred from Camp
Toccoa, GA to Hq 1st 508th PIR at Camp Blanding, FL
Pvt Monroe was injured during the Tennessee Maneuvers on
15 September 1943 and was sent to the 2nd Army Hospital at Camp Forrest,
Tennessee.
While home on convalescent leave, Harry married Mary
Elizabeth Hart in Jefferson, Alabama on 7 October 1943.
He was discharged from the hospital on 27 November 1943
but had missed all the advanced training and the regiment was on the verge
of shipping out. As a consequence, he was transferred to the 541st
PIR. to 541st PIR which also in its early phase of training at Camp Mackall.
But his physical condition apparently prevented him from
going overseas. His daughter Rebecca "Becky" Sawyer reported, "I understood from my mother that my father was injured during night jumps and didn’t go overseas. That’s all I know, besides the fact that my mother also told me my father suffered from “survivor’s guilt”. |
