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Home Town Collierville, TN
Last Address Collierville, TN
Date of Passing Mar 28, 2011
Location of Interment West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery - Memphis, Tennessee
PFC US ARMY, WORLD WAR II: JOHN LANIER "PAPA JOHN " RIMER, 88, of Collierville, died Monday, March 28, 2011 at his home. He was a veteran of the United States Army having served in WWII with the 509th parachute Infantry Battalion. He was born the son of Benjamin and Edna (Augusta) Rimer on November 1, 1922. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Virginia (Biggs) Rimer; his sons, Gary (Barbara) Rimer, of Memphis and Michael (Mary) Rimer, of Moscow, TN; 7 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; 1 great-great-grandchild; and a host of other loving friends and extended family. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 31 at Faith Presbyterian Church, 8816 Poplar Pike, Germantown, TN with services beginning at 11 a.m. Interment will be private in the West Tennessee Veteran's Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Faith Presbyterian Church in Germantown. Arrangements have been entrusted to High Point Funeral Home & Crematorium (Published in The Commercial Appeal on March 31, 2011)
WWII - Africa Theater of Operations/Algeria-French Morocco Campaign (1942)
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November / 1942
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November / 1942
Description (Algeria-French Morocco Campaign 8-11 November 1942) Three days after their victory at El Alamein the Allies opened a new front with an assault on Algeria and French Morocco. Twelfth Air Force, with some units based on Gibraltar, some aboard the invasion fleet, and some bearing paratroops from England, entered combat at this time. The campaign was brkf, for the French in Algeria and French Morocco offered little resistance to the invaders.)