Modesto War Memorial

[Panel 1:]

PEACE

This silent tribute to the fallen heros

of Stanislaus County who gave their

lives for family and country that

Freedom and Peace may endure.

They bravely fought not for fame or

glory but for Liberty and Right.

We treasure their memory and honor their

deeds for they belong to us for eternity.

Their names shall not be forgotten.

WORLD WAR I

Herbert H Adams • Edgar H Annear • H Barker • Lenne E Bean • Guy W Boardman • Arthur W Carlson • James Chio • Stanley L Collins • John W Dielks • Armand W Dye • Herman M Eklund • Uriah M Epperson • Elmer Fox • Kenneth B Glidden • Paul E Guyler • Elijah B Hayes • Charles P Hedrick • Ebert W. Herron • Ervin C Hurd • Charles D Johnson • Harvey W Kent • James A Kessler • William H Koenig • Thomas A Light • George F Marconi • Robert C McCaughlin • Irvin N McCormick • Carl D McIntosh • Roy S Merriam • Lloyd U Mills • Ernest F Mittell • Sterling W Pack • Louis Pedrioli • Robert S Plimpton • Daniel S Savage • Romain Schell • Oscar Snover • Donald S Spenker • Oliver J. Stedman • Fred F Stover • Cecil E Thompson • Ward Tittle • Peter E Tosh • Thomas F Wayman • William I Weaver • Bert O Weeks • Raymond L Wilson • Ora F Winn • Arthur Wordon •

Gifted to Stanislaus County by Joe J. and Diane Venturin

[Panel 2:]

COUNTRY

There Country Asked For Their Life

And Their Life They Gave

WORLD WAR II

Kenneth C Ables • George D Adams • Charles M Allen • John S Allen • Norman M Allport • George Allison • Harold Alton • Poney L Amant • Howard L. Anderson • Albert M Andrade • Clifton N Andrews • Richard J Andrino • Fred W Andrus • Leslie V Atwood • Robert Axelrod • Joseph W Azevedo • Louie C Bailey • Everette C Baird • Roy L Baker • Glenn V Barber • Willie A Barker • Paul F Barnhizer • Tillson H Barrows • George H Bates • John A Bavaster • Paul M Bayes • Max L Bellows • Gilbert T Bennett • Anthony Bertao • Michael D Birdwell • Rova E Bittick • Albert M Blackmon • Coy Booth • Admer N Boren • Bufford Bowen • Merton A Bowen • John S Boyd • William M Bracells • Frank D Bradford • Louis Braseco • Raymond E Brown • Jesse E Bruml • Leonard E Bryant • William E Bucklew • Warren H Burkett • Roy B Burrel • Willis L Butler • Frank Byrd • Manuel Cabral • Raymond R Camery • Jude P Camp • Harry D Carlson • Joseph D Catlin • Russell H Cavanaugh • Norman Charleson • Gerald F Charlesworth • Simon G Chaves • Roy Christian • Harold J Clark • Louis D Clark • Harold S Cleek • Willie R Colbert • Cedric F Coleman • George J Condrey • William Converse • Howard E Coogan • Neal P Cotton • Frank Cox • Bernard M Craig • Clifford R Crismon • William L Crow • Charles M Crowell • Gerald P Curtice • Benito S Dalipe • Homer Damir • Carl DeLaMotte • Clarence P DeMoss • La Mark Dees • Richard G Dick • Marvin Dillwood • Oneal Doig • William F Dorroh • Chester C Dougherty • Donald A Erickson • Blanchard R Evarts • Richard T Evarts • Frank O Ferrini • James T Fields • Edgar Ford • Frank Fovinci •

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FREEDOM

They fought for liberty and right

They died in freedoms cause

WORLD WAR II

William W Galbraith • Raymond K Gardner • Robert E Gardner • Robert N Getty • Donald Goldsmith • Annibal F Gomes • Frank G Gonsalves • Billy F Goodman • Charles D Graves • Charles R Greer • Marvin Greer • John H Hall • Carl W Hamlow • William C Hammond • Richard C Harms • Walter W Harrelson • Johnnie B Harris • Henry W Harrity • Howard R Hartley • Lyle H Hartvickson • Carl Hayes • Robert C Hazzard • Carol Hedlind • Alvin M Henry • Paul Hickey • Ashley W Hicks • Robert Hittle • Everett D Horst • Clyde M Hudelson • Leo R Hughes • Harlin E. Hunt • Albert H Hutchison • Johnny Istilarte • John B Jacobs • Robert C Jenkins • Herbert N Johnson • Ralph E Johnson • Stanley G Johnson • Victor L Johnson • Walter L Johnson • John A Johnston • John B Julian • Borge O Kellstrom • Joseph W Kelly Jr. • William W Ketcham • Dewey F Kiefer • Thomas R King • Bertil Kolander • Jack E Lansberry • James J Lash • Raymond D Laws • William A Logan • Odes E Long • Sherman W Long • Keith R Lowe • Arthur Luce • Vernon T Luke • James F Lukins • Waymon J Luton • Raymond H Magers • Verman A Mainard • Christopher E. Mann • Stanley H Marchand • Frank J Marksman • Carl F Marler • Frank Martin • Louis G Martin • Henry E Mayfield • Robert C Maze • David McBride • J B McCleskey • Delmar C McElhaney • Leonard McClone • Herbert R McGrew • John McGrew • Robert R McLennan • Arthur D McOuone • Gilbert J Mello • J D Delane Miller • Peter Miller • Webster G Miller • Merritt T Mills • Troy M Mitchell • Walter E Morgensen • Ralph L Mourer • Emil C Mundt • John M Murphy • Floy D Muse • Gene A Myers • Richard E Nelson •

[Panel 4]

VALOR

In love, in grief, in pride

We yield our sons

WORLD WAR II

James O Nixon • Phillip G Noble • Gilbert R Norton • William P Odell • Charles N Ohrt • Walter E Olson • William S Orvis • Merle A Osburne • Floyd E Osgood • William B Owens • Roderick D Parish • Arthur Parodi • Othie L Perdue • Walter F Perra • Fred C Peterson • Leon A Peterson • Walter S Peterson • Harold D Phillips • Lawrence H Phillips • William M Phipps • Dwight D Pitzer • Angelo E Ponzio • Osbun A Porter • Bryan E Pridmore • Keith L Rackley • Frank Ramsey • Jack C Rathbun • Glenn D Rice • Marland W Rines • Severine J Robben • Robert I Ronning • Manuel Rozario • Albert R Salazar • John A Scharli • Murl R Schrock • Willie F Scott • Jack P Scovel • Robert Y Seymoure • Carl T Sholander • Willie Silva • Amon G Smith • William R Snyder • Steve S Solano • Warren N Steele • Donald F Stender • Stanley E Stevens • Walter T Stevens • Maurice Stockton • George E Storch • Dewey T Summers • Dale Swift • Alfred Switzer • Emmet W Terrill • Herbert A Thomas • Julian E Thomas • Russell E Thomas • Henry J Tiedemann • Eugene R Torvend • Elmer G Tosta • Harold J Totman • Arthur L Tucker • Raymond R Updegraff • William W Urton • John Van Andel • Melvin L Vanciel • Eugene Vaughn • Clifford A Vierth • Vernan V Vivian • Laird K Walker • William H Walker • Floyd H Wallace • Richard L Wall • Robert M Warner • Charles W Warren • Dewey C Warren • Raymond L Watts • Charles L Wiese • Robert Wilcox • Andrew I Williams • Jeff H Williams • Joseph D Williams • Truit Williams • George E Willson • Ivan V Wilson • Leonard O Wissner • Louis E Yepez • Anthony J Zakarian •

[Panel 5]

DUTY

Who kept the faith

And fought the fight

KOREA

Troy W Bailey • Fred E Baker • James E Beller • Otis P Benjamin • Kenneth C Brubaker • Fred C Bumgardner • John C Cabral • Harvey Chambers • John V Chitwood • John DeGroot • Junnie L Elliott • Joe C Green • Larry P Hamby • Lawrence E Hoffman • R A Jackson • Robert T Jones • Gene B Kelso • Hugh L Kienitz • Duante E Lewis • Lowell D Lunt • Jimmy Pantazopulos • Jerry J Rayburn • George A Robinson • William C Schemmel • Claude L Sheppard • Oscar L Taylor • Garland C Thomas • John F Tulloch • Donald P Tupper • Wallace W Van Dyke • Stanley W Yoppini • F "Brick" Brown •

GULF WAR

Michael D Anderson • Dale G M Brehm • Chad Gonsalves • Raymond D Hill • Bunny Long • Antonio S Mendez • Juana Navarro • Oscar Sanchez • Aaron W Simons • Justin Wood • Joseph A Gage • Bruce Salazar Jr.• Tony J Gonzales • Daniel Hyde •

[Panel 6]

HONOR

We treasure them in memory

Our country’s sacrifice

VIETNAM

Steven E Amescua • Doyle Atkins • Stephen E Austin • Robert Austin • Roy D Barnes • Gary W Bartlow • Michael D Birdwell • Anthony J Blevins • Kenneth L Breshers • Donald L Chaney • Mario A Cisneros • Stanley S Clark • Joseph J Daffer • Peter E Day • William L Dornbergh Jr.• William A Fish • Richard W Ford • John H Franklin • Ernest K Gerhardt • Thomas L Herd • Demetrio L Hernandez • Jerry L Holmes • Phillip L Inman • Jimmy D Jordon • Jack D LeTourneau • Anthony L Lema • James R Lewis • Manuel D Madruga • John R Markille • Dennis A McElroy • Brian K McGar • Gerald L McKinsey • Charles R Mears • Richard R Obert • Galen E Ohlson • Richard L Parham • Gary C Parkinson • Serveston D Pope • Reginald F Powell • Joseph A Randazzo • Neal A Rasmussen • Gunther H Rehling • Leonard Reza • Daniel J Ryan • Larry M Sabo • Antonio Silva • Jose A Silveira • Coy F Stark • Robert N Staud • Gary D Tisdall • Donald C Vaughn • Larry A Walker • John C Weborg • Kenneth L Worley • Larry E Wright •

Marker is on "I" Street, on the right when traveling east.

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