 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas   Emmett W. McGehee 13 September 1918 - 4 March 1945 Texas Sergeant Cavalry WWII FIRST TWO GRAYSON WAR DEAD RITES SLATED HERE The first 2 Grayson County men who died in World War II and were returned to the states for reburial were interred in the Memorial Plot at West Hill Cemetery in Sherman, - St. Don Carlos Pruitt on Saturday and Sgt. Emmett Woodrow McGehee on Sunday.  Sgt. Emmett McGehee's Body Home From Germany : Reburial at Ethel Sunday, Nov. 23 Funeral services for Sgt. Emmett Woodrow McGehee, 26, of Collinsville, route 1, the first of Grayson county's World War II dead to be returned to the states for reburial, will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Ethel Baptist church, east of Collinsville. Sergeant McGehee's body arrived in Sherman this week from overseas and is being held at the John C. Dannel Funeral home, Sherman, until funeral services. The Rev. Charles W. Estes, pastor of the Whitesboro Presbyterian church, will officiate, assisted by Rev. Clyde Beck, Baptist minister of Sherman. Special music will be furnished by the Ethel quartet. The body will be brought to Sherman for burial in the Memorial Plot in West Hill cemetery, which was set aside by the city of Sherman. It will be the first body of a returned World War II veteran to be buried in the plot. Military services at the graveside will be conducted by the Fred Halden Owens' American Legion Post No. 623 of collinsville. Sergeant McGehee was killed in action Sunday, March 4, 1945, at Hockenbroich, Germany, when he was a member of the Cavalry. He was a member of the fourth armored reconnaissance division of the Third Army under General George Patton and had just crossed the Rhine River when he was killed by a shell from a tank destroyer gun. He was born September 13, 1918, at his late home on Route 1, Collinsville. He was a son of the late Coyt Edward McGehee and Mrs. Nancy Ann McGehee of Collinsville and 807 East College, Sherman. He attended Collinsville school. He enlisted in military service on Oct. 7, 1938, at Dallas and after two years service was honorably discharged Jan. 7, 1941 at Fort Sam Houston. On Nov. 2, 1942 he re-enlisted at Dallas. He trained at camp Adair, Oregon and Camp Shelby, Miss., before going overseas to the European theater June 2, 1944. He was married to Miss Ruby Savage of Whitesboro in August 1943. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Nancy Ann McGehee; one son, Leroy McGehee of Whitesboro; two brothers, Coyt McGehee of Grand Prairie and Clifford McGehee of Route 1, Collinsville and one sister, Mrs. Wayne E. Atkins of Sherman. West Hill Cemetery Elaine Nall Bay ©2016 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |