Kersey, Hugh Wright
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| Last Name | Kersey |
| First Name | Hugh |
| Middle Name | Wright |
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| Death Date | 5/5/2003 |
| Birth Date | 11/9/1918 |
| Obituary Source | Martinsville Reporter |
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| Spouse | Mary Katherine Avery (died 2002) |
| Survived By | Son, Charles Frederic "Eric" Kersey; wife, Sharyn; daughter, Carol Lynn Pampalone; 4 sisters, Mary Icelone Koch, Helen Beaman, Virginia Hardwick, and Betty Jackson; 3 grandchildren, Nina Lynn Pampalone, Adam Wesley Kersey, and Matthew Eric Pampalone; 1 great-granddaughter. |
| Other | Son of the late Ezra Newton and Ruby Eugenia (Evans) Kersey. In 1941, he entered the United States Army and attended Medical Technical School at Fitzsimmon General Hospital in Denver, Colorado, and then to Camp Atterbury for training at Billings General Hospital. Receiving the rank of Staff Sargeant, he would later be assigned to the United States Army Transport, George Washington, and made the first of 38 Atlantic Ocean crossings during WW II. |
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