PHILADELPHIA -- Services for Randolph Cheatham will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at McClain-Hays Funeral Service Chapel with the Revs. Dr. Dan Howard and Mack Alford officiating. Burial will be in Cedarlawn Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Mr. Cheatham, 82, of Philadelphia, died Sunday, May 19, 2002, in his home. He was retired superintendent for Perry Construction Company. He was a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Odie Zell Cheatham of Philadelphia; sons, Randy Cheatham of Philadelphia and Dwight Cheatham of Olive Branch; four grandchildren, four great-grandchildren; a sister, Johnnie Ruth Whinery and a brother, Creed Cheatham, both of Philadelphia.
Cheatham, Thomas Randolph, Sr. - Private to Technical Sergeant; enlisted November 10, 1942, at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, in the United States Army; age twenty-two; carpenter; served and trained in the American Theatre of Operations at Camp Adair, Oregon, December 1942 to November 1943, at Camp Horn, Arizona, December 1943, at Camp Carson, Colorado, April 1944, and in New York, September 1944; served also in the European Theatre of Operations as a platoon sergeant with Company I, Third Battalion, 415th Regimental Combat Team, 104th Infantry "Timberwolf" Division, First United States Army, September 1944 to July 1945; participated (195 consecutive days in frontline combat duty) in the campaigns in Northern France and the Rhineland; landed at Cherbourg, France, September/October 1944, Belgium-Holland, October/November 1944, Siegfried Line/Rhine, November 1944 to March 1945, Central Europe. Ruhr, March/April 1945, and the surrender of Germany, May 1945; wounded in action in Germany, April 3, 1945; awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge, American Campaign Medal, European-African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (with three bronze service stars), Presidential Unit Citation, Meritorious Unit Badge, Certificate of Merit (military actions in Germany, December 3/5, 1944), Good Conduct Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Army Occupation (Germany) Medal, Purple heart, Bronze Star, Croix de Guerre and the Silver Star; discharged at Camp Shelby, August 20, 1946, demobilization; described as five feet six inches tall, weighing 137 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
("The Neshoba Democrat", Museum Memories, October 8, 2014)
Mr. Cheatham, 82, of Philadelphia, died Sunday, May 19, 2002, in his home. He was retired superintendent for Perry Construction Company. He was a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Odie Zell Cheatham of Philadelphia; sons, Randy Cheatham of Philadelphia and Dwight Cheatham of Olive Branch; four grandchildren, four great-grandchildren; a sister, Johnnie Ruth Whinery and a brother, Creed Cheatham, both of Philadelphia.
Cheatham, Thomas Randolph, Sr. - Private to Technical Sergeant; enlisted November 10, 1942, at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, in the United States Army; age twenty-two; carpenter; served and trained in the American Theatre of Operations at Camp Adair, Oregon, December 1942 to November 1943, at Camp Horn, Arizona, December 1943, at Camp Carson, Colorado, April 1944, and in New York, September 1944; served also in the European Theatre of Operations as a platoon sergeant with Company I, Third Battalion, 415th Regimental Combat Team, 104th Infantry "Timberwolf" Division, First United States Army, September 1944 to July 1945; participated (195 consecutive days in frontline combat duty) in the campaigns in Northern France and the Rhineland; landed at Cherbourg, France, September/October 1944, Belgium-Holland, October/November 1944, Siegfried Line/Rhine, November 1944 to March 1945, Central Europe. Ruhr, March/April 1945, and the surrender of Germany, May 1945; wounded in action in Germany, April 3, 1945; awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge, American Campaign Medal, European-African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (with three bronze service stars), Presidential Unit Citation, Meritorious Unit Badge, Certificate of Merit (military actions in Germany, December 3/5, 1944), Good Conduct Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Army Occupation (Germany) Medal, Purple heart, Bronze Star, Croix de Guerre and the Silver Star; discharged at Camp Shelby, August 20, 1946, demobilization; described as five feet six inches tall, weighing 137 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
("The Neshoba Democrat", Museum Memories, October 8, 2014)
PHILADELPHIA -- Services for Randolph Cheatham will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at McClain-Hays Funeral Service Chapel with the Revs. Dr. Dan Howard and Mack Alford officiating. Burial will be in Cedarlawn Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Mr. Cheatham, 82, of Philadelphia, died Sunday, May 19, 2002, in his home. He was retired superintendent for Perry Construction Company. He was a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Odie Zell Cheatham of Philadelphia; sons, Randy Cheatham of Philadelphia and Dwight Cheatham of Olive Branch; four grandchildren, four great-grandchildren; a sister, Johnnie Ruth Whinery and a brother, Creed Cheatham, both of Philadelphia.
Cheatham, Thomas Randolph, Sr. - Private to Technical Sergeant; enlisted November 10, 1942, at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, in the United States Army; age twenty-two; carpenter; served and trained in the American Theatre of Operations at Camp Adair, Oregon, December 1942 to November 1943, at Camp Horn, Arizona, December 1943, at Camp Carson, Colorado, April 1944, and in New York, September 1944; served also in the European Theatre of Operations as a platoon sergeant with Company I, Third Battalion, 415th Regimental Combat Team, 104th Infantry "Timberwolf" Division, First United States Army, September 1944 to July 1945; participated (195 consecutive days in frontline combat duty) in the campaigns in Northern France and the Rhineland; landed at Cherbourg, France, September/October 1944, Belgium-Holland, October/November 1944, Siegfried Line/Rhine, November 1944 to March 1945, Central Europe. Ruhr, March/April 1945, and the surrender of Germany, May 1945; wounded in action in Germany, April 3, 1945; awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge, American Campaign Medal, European-African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (with three bronze service stars), Presidential Unit Citation, Meritorious Unit Badge, Certificate of Merit (military actions in Germany, December 3/5, 1944), Good Conduct Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Army Occupation (Germany) Medal, Purple heart, Bronze Star, Croix de Guerre and the Silver Star; discharged at Camp Shelby, August 20, 1946, demobilization; described as five feet six inches tall, weighing 137 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
("The Neshoba Democrat", Museum Memories, October 8, 2014)
Mr. Cheatham, 82, of Philadelphia, died Sunday, May 19, 2002, in his home. He was retired superintendent for Perry Construction Company. He was a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Odie Zell Cheatham of Philadelphia; sons, Randy Cheatham of Philadelphia and Dwight Cheatham of Olive Branch; four grandchildren, four great-grandchildren; a sister, Johnnie Ruth Whinery and a brother, Creed Cheatham, both of Philadelphia.
Cheatham, Thomas Randolph, Sr. - Private to Technical Sergeant; enlisted November 10, 1942, at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, in the United States Army; age twenty-two; carpenter; served and trained in the American Theatre of Operations at Camp Adair, Oregon, December 1942 to November 1943, at Camp Horn, Arizona, December 1943, at Camp Carson, Colorado, April 1944, and in New York, September 1944; served also in the European Theatre of Operations as a platoon sergeant with Company I, Third Battalion, 415th Regimental Combat Team, 104th Infantry "Timberwolf" Division, First United States Army, September 1944 to July 1945; participated (195 consecutive days in frontline combat duty) in the campaigns in Northern France and the Rhineland; landed at Cherbourg, France, September/October 1944, Belgium-Holland, October/November 1944, Siegfried Line/Rhine, November 1944 to March 1945, Central Europe. Ruhr, March/April 1945, and the surrender of Germany, May 1945; wounded in action in Germany, April 3, 1945; awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge, American Campaign Medal, European-African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (with three bronze service stars), Presidential Unit Citation, Meritorious Unit Badge, Certificate of Merit (military actions in Germany, December 3/5, 1944), Good Conduct Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Army Occupation (Germany) Medal, Purple heart, Bronze Star, Croix de Guerre and the Silver Star; discharged at Camp Shelby, August 20, 1946, demobilization; described as five feet six inches tall, weighing 137 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
("The Neshoba Democrat", Museum Memories, October 8, 2014)
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