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Harold Wayland McLemore

Male 1931 - 2007  (75 years)


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  • Name Harold Wayland McLemore  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 23 Oct 1931  Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 29 Aug 2007  Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Burial Roselawn Gardens of Memory, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Notes 
    • Obituary, as posted to his FindAGrave memorial page by SFC Frank Irons Sr, retired:

      Funeral for Harold Wayland McLemore Sr., 75, of Decatur will be Saturday, Sept. 1, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Roselawn Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Dusty McLemore officiating.

      Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery.Visitation will be tonight from6 to 8 at the funeral home.
      Mr. McLemore, who died Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007, at his residence, was born Oct. 23, 1931, in Limestone County to Alvis Wallace and Cleffa Belle Robinson McLemore. Hegraduated from RiversideHigh School (Decatur High)in 1950. He played footballunder Coach Shorty Ogle. He played from 1948 until 1950 on the Decatur High Championship team with team mem-ber and best friend, WesThompson. Later after graduation, he and Wes joinedmilitary service togetherwhere they served in Korea.He enlisted in 1950 as amember of the U.S. Army1343 combat engineeringdivision and became a corporal and communicationspecialist. He received basic training in Fort Campbell, Ky. Mr. McLemore was deployedto Korea at the beginningof the war where his division landed at Hyundai Beach under heavy attack. He was later wounded and spent three weeks in a MASH unit. He was awarded the Korean service medal and two bronze campaign stars. He was a member of the Decatur Chapter of the VFW.

      Upon returning to the states, Mr. McLemore took employment with Decatur Electric Department in 1952 as a lineman and later became superintendent where he retired in 1991. He was an avid fisherman and gardener and studied North Alabama archaeology.

      Survivors include his wife, Geraldine McLemore; two sons, Harold Wayland McLemore Jr. of Carthage, Texas, and Warren Hayes McLemore of Somerville; and four grandchildren, Casey McLemore, Jill McLemore and Shane McLemore, all of Carthage, Texas, and Brandon McLemore of Somerville.

      Pallbearers will be Jimmy Miller, Darrell Smith, Ray Robinson, Bruce Shaw, Roddy Taylor and Jay Roberts.

      Published in the Decatur Daily on 8/31/2007.
    Person ID I45876  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 22 Sep 2014 

    Father Alvis Wallace "Doc" McLemore, Jr.,   b. 10 Oct 1905, Limestone County, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Mar 1983, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Mother Cleffa Belle Robinson,   b. 30 Nov 1910, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Sep 1994, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Marriage 30 Aug 1930  [4, 5
    Family ID F1165  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Geraldine Sandy,   b. 21 Apr 1937, Lawrence County, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 2008, Morgan County, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Marriage Y  [6
    Family ID F13627  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Sep 2014 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 23 Oct 1931 - Alabama Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 29 Aug 2007 - Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Roselawn Gardens of Memory, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S546] Edwards, Chris and Axford, Faye "The Lure and Lore of Limestone County" (Portals Press, Tuscaloosa, Alambama).

    2. [S1299] 1940 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com. database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012, (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.), Tennessee, McMinn County, Etowah Town, Third Civil District Enumerated April 17, 1940 SD 2 ED 54-11 Sheets 7A and 7B 419-163 (renting from Ida Daughtery) (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S873] Find A Grave [database online]; http://www.findagrave.com/, (Thousands of contributors submit new listings, updates, corrections, photographs and virtual flowers every hour to the FIND A GRAVE website. When it comes to administrating, building and maintaining the site, Find A Grave is largely operated by its founder, Jim Tipton.), # 21268816 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S667] RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project, (The WorldConnect Project is a set of tools, which allow users to upload, modify, link, and display their family trees as a means to share their genealogy with other researchers. The program used to day has a genealogy of its own. RootsWeb announced the launch of the World Connect Project on November 10, 1999 after staff members and users submitted 5.5 million records during a four-week beta-testing period. The WorldConnect Project continues to grow, and as of January 2004 had more than 312 million records. GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunications. It is a file format developed by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). It provides a flexible and uniform format for exchanging computerized genealogical data, and allows you to share files with other researchers who may not use the same genealogy program.), Albers, Terry (Terry@meachem.net) "Meachem, Vinson, Whitt , Rankin, Albers & Extended Families" Ver. 2009-07-21 ; htt p://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi? (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S873] Find A Grave [database online]; http://www.findagrave.com/, (Thousands of contributors submit new listings, updates, corrections, photographs and virtual flowers every hour to the FIND A GRAVE website. When it comes to administrating, building and maintaining the site, Find A Grave is largely operated by its founder, Jim Tipton.), # 20358407 (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S873] Find A Grave [database online]; http://www.findagrave.com/, (Thousands of contributors submit new listings, updates, corrections, photographs and virtual flowers every hour to the FIND A GRAVE website. When it comes to administrating, building and maintaining the site, Find A Grave is largely operated by its founder, Jim Tipton.), # 25722289 (Reliability: 3).