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Personal info

Full name
PARKER, Odis
Date of birth
26 December 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Oklahoma
Hometown
San Francisco County, California

Military service

Service number
39074324
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
33rd Armored Regiment,
3rd Armored Division,
3rd Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 March 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Charly B. Parker (father)
Annie M. (Lantz) Parker (mother)
Virgil Parker (sister)
Alvie Parker (brother)
Haskell Parker (brother)
Granville Parker (brother)
Wonemia (Glover) Parker (wife)

More information

Pvt Odis Parker worked in a shipyard.

His brother, Alvie Parker, was killed in action on 16 November 1944 on Leyte, in the Philippines.

Source of information: Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.findagrave.com, www.ancestry.com - Ada Weekly News 5 April 1945 / Family Tree

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Dale Lantz, www.honorstates.org