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Pearson, James Roy, SGT.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Lakeland
Last Address Lakeland
Casualty Date Nov 04, 1966
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Vietnam, South (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery - Chicora, Florida
JAMES R. PEARSONI would like.to thank you for your service to your country. I have never forgotten.
Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery
Posted on 3/27/14 - by Kevin Jenkins
I tend to his grave every time I am at the cemetery. My family, the Jenkins and Albrittons, are all buried there.I served 20 years in the military as did my father, and many uncles and cousins; many are buried there.
His service IS REMEMBERED!
Ron Hall ronaldhall2@aol.com
Little Bear
On 30 April 2011, the Little Bear Association celebrated your sacrifice. You will not be forgotten, brother.
May 24, 2011
Christine Lewis NighthawkOhio@aol.com
Friend
2148 Dunkeld Drive Grove City OH 43123 USA
On this Veteran's Day You Are Not Forgotten
On this Veteran's Day my thoughts are of you and your family. Thank you for your sacrifice which can never be repaid. Rest in peace valiant warrior. God bless your family.
Nov 11, 2010
Christine Lewis NighthawkOhio@aol.com
Friend
2148 Dunkeld Drive Grove city OH 43123 USA
'Remembering Roy Today'
Dear Roy, yesterday was my birthday. I'm 57 yrs old now and time is marching on. Today is the day you were taken from us all those years ago, but I still see you as if it were yesterday. I would give anything to have you and my brother here today. None of us will ever forget you, you'll always be with us. We all carry you in our hearts every minute we breathe. Rest in peace dear friend.
Nov 4, 2010
Photo Courtesy of Bob Tegelman
James, you are missed and loved,by all who knew you. My prayers to you,and your family.
Jun 4, 2010
Christine Lewis NighthawkOhio@aol.com
My brother's best friend
2148 Dunkeld Drive Grove City OH 43123 USA
Remembering Roy This Memorial Day 2010
Today I visited the replica Viet Nam Veterans Moving Wall in Westerville, Ohio. There were thousands of flags fluttering in the breeze as I headed for Panel 12E line 24. I softly touched your name and prayed as my tears fell on my shoes. In touching your name I was transported to the past, seeing and hearing you and my brother Robert talking, watching you chew as you bit into another homemade biscuit at our supper table. Thru my tears I almost laughed out loud seeing you wiggle your ears sitting across from me. I have magic ears litlun you said to me. I could hear the screendoor slam as you and Robert left for a Friday night's juking in his 57 Chevy. Touching your name I could feel all the sadness that has ever been since you've been gone, the anger the frustration, the grief and sadness that will never go away. For one brief moment in time, eternity blinked and you were gone in seconds but we will remember you for eons.
May 30, 2010
Jeanice Thomas destinationunlimted@live.com
sister
101 McCaskel Trail Argyle Ga 31623 U.S.A.
FOREVER IN MY HEART!
The years have come and gone, but the memories of, or the love for this man have not! Time does not heal, we only learn to live with what we can't do anything about. What we feel for him is NOT because he was considered a 'HERO' by the armed forces, but because of who he was before they knew him. Never to be able to tell him again, the love we have for him, we can tell all who care to know, who visit this site, Roy had a very close knit family who loved each other with an undieing love. His body may be gone but the love, respect, and admiration his family has for him, or the memories of him can't be taken, it hasn't been in 43 years, IT WILL LIVE FOREVER! James Roy Pearson 5/1/1946 - 11/4/1966 (just a baby)
Nov 4, 2009
Nelda Thomas destinationunlimited@live.com
relative
101 McCaskel Trail (P.O. Box 254) Argyle Georgia 31623 U.S.A.
Never Forgotten
manny g- Evidently you and your life has been touched and left scared by what some of us know only as the battle in vietnam. I suppose for those who went there, whether they were together in body or not, were together in mind and spirit. You all went there for the same reason, and it took a special person with a special heart to have done that. A million THANK YOUS will not be enough to thank you for ALL you did to fight for my freedom. Sky Lava@yahoo.com- Never any better spoken- Every day my heart thanks God for the freedom we have to worship, for God gave these men what it took inside them to be willing to go blindly into a place of the unknown to face the terrors unknown for those of us who are TRUE PROUD AMERICANS!!! Chris Lewis- I am so very sure that this brave man, Roy Pearson, would have considered it an honor to know that your brother named his son after him and that your brother spoke so highly of him. Many, many people were devastated,I'm sure, but for your brother to have always wished he had gone to vietnam with him to watch his back, was a mighty courageous thing for him to feel. Those kids(20 yrs old)as well as the older ones who didn't get to come home, who not were killed, but laid down their lives, NONE deserved to die. We know they were all good descent men and we whose lives were touched by vietnam, will forever carry scars in our hearts and minds. I think often of the many, many families who were preparing for the long awaited HOME COMING of there precious son, husband, daddy, or brother. For Roy's family, it was almost Thanksgiving. He was to be home to stay by Christmas 1966, barely 7 weeks away. After 42 years, 10 months and 2 days, the pain, the memories of the men in uniform who came to the door, the screams of Roy's daddy and momma, the horror is all still real. They neither were ever the same. His daddy died 1 year, 7 months later at age 52. For his momma, only brother, and 6 sisters, the questions never ceased. What really happened? Where did it happen? I believe the Armed Forces have to tell families the bare necessities, so unless and until we find someone who was there, we will never know. To ALL of you, Thank you from the family, for after all these years, having the heart and taking the time to speak so kindly in memory of a, 'ONE OF A KIND' young man.(I named my only son after him, James) I know these things and more because I am Roy's sister, Jeanice Pearson\Thomas. I and a sister answered the door that day. The uniformed men went to where momma and daddy was at, and life was never the same again. My daughter-in-law set up a Memorial for Roy at http://www.VirtualWall.org/dp/PearsonJRO1a.htm in 2001, in case you haven't saw it. ROY- There are no words to describe how much we miss him, and in our hearts, the love for him never lessened. If there's anyone who knew him in nam, Please contact me at destinationunlimited@live.com
Sep 6, 2009
manny g
Fellow Veteran 69-70 An Khe
Union Gap, WA. 98903
“You are Remembered”
Peace and condolence, to the family and friends. "He which hath no stomach to this fight let him depart. But we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers!! For he today, that sheds his blood with me, shall always be my brother”. Rest in peace brave soldier, you have not been forgotten. (W.Shakespeare) May God Bless You for your Sacrifice!!!
May 1, 2008
Jennifer Burns sky_lava@yahoo.com
PROUD AMERICAN
Though you are gone you will never be forgotten! You and men like you, are the reason we are free today! I just wanted to say THANK YOU for the sacrifices that you made! I hold you and those like you in the highest regard and you deserve nothing less! I love you all, you were and always will be HEROES to me! I promise never to take for granted the freedoms I have, which you paid the ultimate price for! Happy Birthday! Let no man be forgotten…I WILL REMEMBER YOU!!! Gratefully yours,Jenn
May 1, 2007
Christine Lewis and Bob Tegelman
You are not Forgotten
Apr 18, 2007
Chris Lewis NighthawkOhio@aol.com
He was my brother's best friend
2148 Dunkeld Drive
Grove City, OH 43123 USA
My Brother's Best Friend
James Roy Pearson known to my family as "Roy" Pearson, was my brother, Robert Smith's best friend while growing up in the 60's in Lakeland, Florida. Roy often ate supper with us and loved my mother's homemade biscuits. He was a very polite, kind young man when I knew him. He was from a local family who were just plain old country folks like us. My brother Robert thought of Roy like a brother. He was devastated when Roy was killed. Later in the 70's my brother named his only son Robert "Roy" to honor his fallen best friend. He never forget Roy and spoke of him often. I went to school with Roy's sister Jeanice and our families knew each other. I will never forget the feeling of sorrow when we found out Roy had been killed. My brother Robert always wished he had gone to Viet Nam with him to watch his back. My brother Robert accidentally electrocuted killed himself in 1983 while welding a homemade trailer. His son Roy is a grown man today with children. I will always remember Roy Pearson as a good, decent young man who didn't deserve to die. He will be forever missed. (Christine Smith Lewis, Grove city, OHIO)
Saturday, September 03, 2005
We Remember
James is buried at Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Chicora, Hillsborough County,FL. DFC AM PH
