Paugh, Clarence Emerson

Passed: 1944-09-16

Age: 31

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1948-12-05

Information: PAUGH RITES BEING PLANNED - SERVICE FOR WAR VETERAN TO BE HELD SUNDAY AT MT. ZION - Funeral services for Clarence Emerson Paugh, killed in action with the United States Army at St. Pierre, France, on September 16, 1944, will be held at 2:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Mt. Zion church with the Rev. Ross Adams officiating and the military burial with members of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars participating will be in the church cemetery.  The body of Paugh arrived at the Vail mortuary here on Wednesday and will remain there until time for the service.      The young man was inducted into the service at Ft. Thomas, Ky., on December 9, 1943 and received his basic training at Camp Wolters, Texas, and was assigned to the Infantry and went overseas in June 1944.  He was born at Liverpool on October 27, 1912, was a member of the Little Creek Methodist church and lived in that community until he entered the service.  On Sept. 12, 1934 he married Virginia Milhoan, who survives with one daughter, Delores Geneal, who lives with her mother in Ripley.  Other survivors include two brothers, Herman Paugh, former police chief at Ripley, who is now in Canton, Ohio and Orville Paugh of Pineville; two sisters, Mrs. Charles H. Kittle of Ripley and Mrs. Delbert Cooper of St. Albans; his father, Albert Paugh of Reedy and his mother, Mrs. Fannie Sayre of Ripley.  One infant son preceded the father in death.