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West Virginia Veterans Database Record Detail
Item Details: Record Id: 6258
War: WWII
Name: James Show Maddox
Sex: M
Race:
County: Marion
Community: Fairmont
Branch of Service: Navy
Rank: Ens.
Service Number: 0-135297
Date of Death: 1943/01/17
Place of Death: Atlantic Theater
Cause of Death: Died at sea
Place of Burial: Tablets of the Missing, New York
Unit: Zandan
Date of Birth: 1912/12/12
Place of Birth: Fairmont, Marion County

Father:

 Orville B. Maddox
Mother: May Maddox
Spouse: Patricia Louise Heine Maddox
Date of Marriage: 1941/05/03
Place of Marriage: Lafayette, IN

Children:
Date Added to Memorial:  1996
Source: William Corbin (second cousin); Jackson County Library, Ripley WV- WWII newspaper notebooks by Mr/Mr. Lockhart's - photo; Fairmont Times 1943/02/12 and 1944/10/03 (mother christening ship); Fairmont Times 1943-05/31 - memorial service; ABMC; Fairmont Times 1942/12/04 and 1942/12/09 MIA; Fairmont Times 1943/11/13 article about widow joining Red Cross; Jackson Herald 1943/03/12 and 1943/03/26
Notes: Copy of a page from a book detailing Maddox's death. He was on a lifeboat for 76 days before he died. Graduate of East Fairmont High School, WVU and University of Iowa. At time of enlistment was instructor in speech department at Purdue University in Lafayette, IN. Mother christened Victory Ship Fairmont at Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore
Photograph:
Documents: Y
       

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