Born: 26 Jul 1925 Died: 24 Nov 2015 Service: U.S. Army WW II; served Oct 1943 - Oct 1945; Purple Heart Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Name & Rank: Scott, William A., Pvt. Com. off: Davis, Henry T., Capt., Organ: Co. of Mtd. Vol. Tex. Fr. Rgt. TST, Comd. by Col. James M. Norris Enlist: Mr. 4-62 at Gillespie Cty. Disch: Co. mus. out F. 7-63; Disch. expiration of term of service Remarks: R&F 136;
En. Off. Henry T. Davis;
Mus. Off. Capt. Joe Walker;
Co. sta. at Camp Davis F. 7-63;
Co. org. under Act D. 21-61;
1 mus. roll dtd. Je. 30-62 to F. 7-63;
1 mus. out roll dtd. F. 7-63;
1 payroll dtd. Mr. 10-62 to Je. 30-62;
Val. H. $100, HE. $20, Arms $20
Serv. 3 mos. 21 days at $12 per mo. - Am't. $44.40, plus $45.20 for use of horse, arms, etc. at 40 cents per day, plus $3.70 for use of arms at $1 per mo. - Total $93.30;
Last paid June 30-62;
Clothing drawn $28.38; Source: Ancestry.com. Texas, Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Scott served in Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge.
He served in WWII as a rifle company medic with the 9th Infantry, received a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and the French Legion of Honor Medal in 2015.
Scott, William Thomas
Born: 16 Jun 1934 Died: 18 Aug 2017 Service: Veteran Burial:Cremated
Scripps, Robert Paine "Bob", Sr.
Born: 1 Mar 1918 Died: 18 Oct 2012 Service: U.S. Army Infantry WW II; enlisted 29 Mar 1941 Burial:Cremated
Scrogin, Bernard Lester
Born: 15 Jan 1940 Died: 25 Jun 2021 Service: U.S. Air Force Reserves Burial:Not stated / Unknown
In 1941 Scripps was drafted as a private in the Army infantry. Within days of the attack on Pearl Harbor, he shipped out of San Francisco for Guadalcanal, eventually serving in the Georgia Islands, the Solomon Islands and the Philippines. He was on a troop ship bound for home when the first atomic bomb was dropped.
Seale, Cecil Hubert
Born: 22 Oct 1919 Died: 16 Nov 2010 Service: U.S. Army WW II Pacific Theater Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 7 025 039
Seay, Howard Temple
Born: 22 Oct 1915 Died: 25 Mar 2004 Service: CPL U.S. Army WW II; served 12 Mar 1942 - 30 Sep 1945 Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section 37 site 736
Sebesta, Roy Alvin
Born: 3 Jun 1921 Died: 19 Jan 2001 Service: CPL U.S. Army WW II, served 19 Jan 1943 - 6 Mar 1946 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 3 009 006
Born: 11 May 1896 Died: 23 May 1972 Service: U. S. Army WW I; served 21 Jun 1917 - 17 May 1919 Burial:Westminster Memorial Park
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1, p. 259
Seelig, Harry Albert Carl, Sr.
Born: 8 Jun 1916 Died: 11 Sep 1971 Service: U.S. Army WW II, served 25 Jan 1943 - 1 Jan 1946 Burial:St. Mary's Garden Cemetery Plot: SMG L 04 032 A
Seelig, Louis William
Born: 18 Aug 1929 Died: 19 Sep 1986 Service: CPL U.S. Army Korea; enlisted 11 Jan 1955 Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section 14 site 1278
Seelig, Otto Herman "Herman", Jr.
Born: 19 Jun 1932 Died: 20 Jan 1960 Service: CPL U.S. Army; served 17 Apr 1950 - 16 Nov 1953 Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section AH Site 1177
Mr. Seelig entered the U.S. Army January 25, 1943, serving as PFC, Co. C., 289th Engineer Combat Bn. and earning various decorations including the Good …
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 2 p. 278
Segner, Alex Erwin
Born: 9 Jan 1923 Died: 14 Apr 1997 Service: TEC 5 U.S. Army WW II, served 17 Jan 1945 - 23 Nov 1946 Burial:St. Mary's Memorial Garden Cemetery Plot: K 01 003 B
Segner, Lawrence Richard
Born: 21 Jul 1923 Died: 6 Jul 1999 Service: HCD Corp 8th ENG BN1 CD U.S. Army WW II, served 9 Jun 1944 - 21 Apr 1946 Burial:St. Mary's Memorial Garden Cemetery Plot: K 05 050 B
Name: Seib, G.., Pvt. Com. off: Dearing, Jacob, Capt. Organ: Co. C, 3rd Frontier Dist., BG J.D. McAdoo comdg., TST Enlist: Ap. 14-64 in Gillespie Co. Disch: Served 3 days at $2--$6 Descrip: Age 46 Remarks: R&F 59; En. & Mus. Off. Maj. S.M. Hunter; Co. org. under act of D. 15-63; 1 mus. roll dtd. Ap. 14-64 to Je 1-64. Source: Ancestry.com. Texas, Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
He served the military in WWII as a B-24 bomber pilot and retired as a Major in the United States Air Force reserve in 1972, after serving 28 years of commissioned service.
He served the military in WWII as a B-24 bomber pilot and retired as a Major in the United States Air Force reserve in 1972, after serving 28 years of commissioned service.
Seifert, Martin Markle
Born: 9 Dec 1917 Died: 11 Aug 2010 Service: U.S. Army Air Force WW II; served 18 Jun 1941 - 9 Oct 1945; U.S. Air Force Korean Conflict Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Seilheimer, Fritz Andrew
Born: 4 Oct 1902 Died: 23 Jul 1976 Service: PVT U.S. Army WW II, served 12 Jul 1942 - 11 Mar 1943 Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section Z Site 2031
Seipp, Alexander William "Alex"
Born: 17 Oct 1891 Died: 7 Sep 1963 Service: U.S. Army WW I; discharge 28 Jul 1919 Burial:Chapel Hill Gardens
Pvt. Fritz Seilheimer, son of John Seilheimer, who has been in the service of Uncle Sam for four months and now is stationed at Camp Forest, Texas. Pvt. Seilheimer recently visited his second home, Fredericksburg, while on an eight day furlough. He said he really loved the town and his new friends of here.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1 p. 350
Seipp, Leroy Alvin
Born: 1 Jan 1921 Died: 27 Oct 2017 Service: Air Cadet U.S. Navy WW II 1944, MAJ Marine Corps Korea Vietnam Silver Star Burial:Riverside National Cemetery
Seipp, Otto Henry
Born: 6 Jan 1894 Died: 20 Sep 1978 Service: U.S. Army WW I, served 26 Jun 1918 - 23 Aug 1919 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: G, 15, 21
Seipp, Wilbert Edwin "Sonny"
Born: 15 Nov 1929 Died: 24 Jan 1998 Service: U.S. Army Korea, discharge 11 Jun 1954 Burial:Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery Plot: Row 7
Aviation Cadet Leroy Seipp, age 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Seipp, has entered pre-flight training at the Navy Pre-flight School, Athens, Georgia. Leroy, a graduate of Fredericksburg High School, class of 1939, was employed for a time at Woerner Grocery and in April, 1940 entered the American Business Institute at Houston. After graduating from this school he accepted a position with the Southwestern Greyhound Lines Inc. in Houston as Chief office Clerk and bookkeeper, which position he held until he enlisted in the Naval Air Force on August 14th, 1942. He was ordered to the Sam Houston Flying School at Huntsville on November 15th. where he completed the ground school training on January 1st. following which he was transferred to Flight Preparatory School at the University of Texas which course he completed in February. Since that time he has been stationed at Athens, Georgia, for further pre-flight training.
Leroy has become a member of the Navy football team at his present station and has been appointed Chief Petty Office for his Platoon. (Fbg)
Leroy A. Seipp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Seipp, who formerly resided here and now living in San Antonio for the WAR Effort, received his Gold WINGS and commission as Second Lieutenant in the US Naval Air Corps two weeks ago. Lt Seipp has been transferred from Pensacola, Florida, to the Naval Air Station, Miami, Florida.
Lt. Leroy Seipp of the U.S. Marines Air Force, is spending a 21 day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Seipp in San Antonio formerly of Fredericksburg, and with friends and relatives here. Leroy recently completed his training in Florida, as a pilot of the famous "HELLCAT" fighter plane. He will receive further training at another flight center in Georgia, upon his return to his station.
Muster Date: Apr 1944
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Station: Marine Fighting Squadron Five Twelve, Marine Aircraft Group Fifty-One, Ninth Marine Aircraft Wing, Fleet Marine Force, Usmcaaf, Polloksville Field, New Bern, No. Carolina.On 28 Feb 1945, he re-enlisted in the US Navy and Marine Corps Offices at Ft. Sam Houston, on 6 Nov 1953 he is listed as US Navy Marine Reserve Officer. A write up in the San Antonio Express 1952 said this: "Marine Capt Leroy A. Seipp, 31 year old son of Mr. and Mrs Alex W. Seipp, has received a Gold Star in lieu of a 4th. Air Medal. He is a graduate of Fredericksburg High School, Fredericksburg Texas. His wife Marjorie and daughters Cynthia 4, Carol 1, are living in Los Angeles California."
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1 p. 89
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 3 p. 363
Seipp, Wilfried Alexander
Born: 9 Aug 1929 Died: 2 Mar 1985 Service: SGT U.S. Army Korea; served 5 Feb 1951 - 10 Feb 1953, 1 Mar 1957 - 24 Feb 1966 Burial:St. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery
Seiter, Ewald Willie Emil
Born: 3 Nov 1906 Died: 12 Apr 1960 Service: TX Pvt ,FA PEPL ING CENTER U.S. Army WW II; enlisted 3 Mar 1942 Burial:Guadalupe Valley Cemetery
Seiter, George
Born: abt 1823 Died: 7 Dec 1869 Service: Pvt. Co. C, 3rd Frontier District TST 1864 Burial:St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery Plot: B 05 21
Name: Seiter, G., Pvt. Com. off: Dearing, Jacob, Capt. Organ: Co. C, 3rd Frontier Dist., BG J.D. McAdoo comdg., TST Enlist: Ap. 14-64 in Gillespie Co. Disch: Served 8 days at $2--$16 Descrip: Age 39 Remarks: R&F 59; En. & Mus. Off. Maj. S.M. Hunter; Co. org. under act of D. 15-63; 1 mus. roll dtd. Ap. 14-64 to Je 1-64. Source: Ancestry.com. Texas, Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
George Seiter, age 46, blacksmith, died Dec. 1869
Source: 1870 Federal Mortality Schedule, Gillespie Co. TX
Seitze, Bill
Born: 11 Jul 1922 Died: 22 Apr 2008 Service: U.S. Army Air Force WW II Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: J, 18, 11
Born: 12 Apr 1924 Died: 6 Mar 1996 Service: WT2 U.S. Navy WW II; served 8 May 1943 - 7 Dec 1945 Burial:Live Oak Cemetery (Manchaca TX)
U.S. Army Air Force Training Center, Mississippi 1943
Sellers, Arthur Lee "Bud"
Born: 12 Apr 1919 Died: 30 Mar 2012 Service: Yeoman third class U.S. Navy WW II Burial:Rose Hill Cemetery
Sellers, Glenn Monroe
Born: 28 Aug 1953 Died: 8 Jan 2013 Service: A1C U.S. Air Force Vietnam Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Plot: SECTION 26 SITE 2755-A
Sellers, Whitney Burton
Born: 26 Feb 1922 Died: 15 Apr 1944 Service: PVT U.S. Army WW II, died at Camp Barkeley TX Burial:Harper Community Cemetery
There are two sons of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Sellers who are among service men with Uncle Sam’s fighting forces. Arthur Lee Sellers, Yeoman third class, who entered the naval service in May 1942 and is now seeing service in Atlantic. Also son Sgt. Whitney Sellers stationed at Camp Campbell.
Pvt. Whitney B. Sellers Killed In Land Mine Blast At Camp Barkeley
Pvt. Whitney B. Sellers became Gillespie County's tenth World War II fatality on Saturday of last week when he was killed in an unexplained explosion of a demonstration land mine on the Camp Barkeley reservation near Abilene.
According to information available, Pvt. Sellers and three other enlisted men had volunteered to place the mine and the camp's public relations office said an enlisted man had left the scene a moment before the blast. The three who remained at the mine, including Sellers and a man from New York and Tennessee, were all killed.
Pvt. Sellers, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Sellers, was inducted into the Army on October 30, 1942. He was trained at Camp Campbell, Kentucky; had two months of maneuvers in Tennessee and was transferred to Camp Barkeley, Texas on November 15, 1943. He was a member of Company C. 119th Armored Engineers Battalion, 18th. Armored Division.
Sellers was born in Harper on February 26, 1922, the son of A. W. and Stella Lee Sageser Sellers. He graduated from Fredericksburg High School in 1938 and graduated from Draughon's Business Collage, San Antonio, just prior to his induction. In Fredericksburg he was employed by the National Bank while attending high school.
He was united in marriage with his surviving widow, Miss Joy Lee Felps, in a ceremony here on January 22, 1944.
Other survivors include his parents, brothers: Yeoman First Class Arthur Lee Sellers of the U. S. Navy and Oscar Joe Sellers of here; sisters, Jettie Rae, Mrs. Frank Wyatt of San Angelo and Fern, Mrs. Douglas Middleton of Hanley, Texas.
Full military honors were accorded sellers in funeral rites held on Tuesday, April 18, at 2p.m. in Beckmann Funeral Home, with Rev. F. E. Billings officiating. The Baptist Church choir sang at the funeral home.
The Louis Jordan Post of the American Legion officiated at Harper, where he was laid to rest.
Sellers's body was accompanied to Fredericksburg by military escort, Private Vernon S. Peterson, who presented Pvt. Sellers's wife with the flag that draped his coffin and spoke the following words:
"In behalf of my Battalion Commander, Company Commander, Officers and enlisted men, I present you, his wife, this flag in memory of him."
Harold Henke, bugler for the Legion Post, sounded taps as his body was lowered into the grave.
Sells, John Warren
Born: 6 Oct 1951 Died: 5 Mar 2016 Service: Sgt. U.S. Marine Corps served 1970 - 1974 Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Sembritzky, Gustave Adolph "Adolf", Jr.
Born: 11 Sep 1920 Died: 24 Sep 2002 Service: AECM U.S. Navy WW II Korea Vietnam; served 1 Jan 1940 - 1 Aug 1963 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof
Sewell, Printess Ray
Born: 26 Dec 1950 Died: 29 Dec 2017 Service: Veteran Burial:Cremated
He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1970 to 1974 and was discharged as a sergeant. John worked as an electrical engineer at Lake Amistad Dam, in Texas, and an RF engineer for the air-to-air Eastern Seaboard combat training range.
Home From Pacific
After seven months of duty in the combat zone, during which it participated in amphibious operations at Saipan, Tinian, Palau, Ulithi and Leyte, Navy Composite Squadron Four has returned to the United States.
One of the squadron's returning members is Gus A. (Trolley) Sembritzky, Aviation Chief Electrician's Mate USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sembritzky, 501 E. Ufer St., Fredericksburg.
Accroding to the squadron's commander, "The industry and courage displayed by Sembritzky made him a welcome member of the squadron."
Composite Four, known in the escort carrier fleet as "Deacon's Demons," climaxed its combat record off Samar last October 24 when it handful of Wildcat fighter and Avenger torpedo-bomber pilots helped to stop and turn back a numerically superior enemy fleet.
Sembritzky currently is spending a leave with his parents here in Fredericksburg.
Sembritzky was a USS Lexington Survivor and the Battle of the Leyte Gulf.
Seymour, Hasting Robert "Robert"
Born: 10 Aug 1917 Died: 28 Feb 2002 Service: U.S. Army WW II; enlisted 20 Sep 1941 Burial:Blanco City Cemetery
Seymour, Wesley Harvey "Curley"
Born: 18 Sep 1921 Died: 18 Feb 1994 Service: GM2 U.S. Navy WW II Burial:Concrete Cemetery
Shafer, Aurthur Wesley "Art"
Born: 25 Oct 1927 Died: 26 Oct 2017 Service: Yeoman 2nd Class U.S. Navy WW II; servd Sep 1945 - Oct 1948 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery
Seaman Wesley Seymour, son of Mrs. Elsie Seymour of Albert who joined the U S Navy over a year ago and is now serving somewhere at sea. Wesley is a 1940 graduate of Fredericksburg High School and was a star lineman on the Hillbilly District Championship team of 1939.
Art served for three years primarily at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Shafer, Bernice Ruby (Specht)
Born: 26 Dec 1922 Died: 23 Dec 2018 Service: U.S. Cadet Nurse Corp / U.S. Army WW II / U.S. Air Force Korean Conflict Capt.; served 1940 - 1953 Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery
Born: 4 Apr 1924 Died: 3 Nov 1989 Service: TSGT U.S. Army Air Force WW II Korea Vietnam; served 1 Oct 1944 - 31 Oct 1964 Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section 16 site 1281
Shafer served in Manilla, Phillipines. Also 311th General Hospital. After 1947 she served at Cano Carson, Colorado Springs CO.
Sharpley, Alan D.
Born: 21 Dec 1946 Died: 24 Oct 2021 Service: U.S. Army Burial:Cremated
Born: 15 Jan 1911 Died: 19 Nov 1992 Service: TSGT U.S. Army Air Corp WW II, enlisted 31 Jan 1942 Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section AA site 419
Shelton, Helene Charlene (Marich)
Born: 21 Jan 1921 Died: 13 Oct 2004 Service: PFC U.S. Army Air Force WW II served 30 Oct 1944 - 7 Jan 1946 Burial:Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section E Site 975
Enlisted 11 Oct 1944 under the name Helene Krubl
Shelton, Horace Hugh
Born: 15 May 1918 Died: 25 Sep 2001 Service: CAPT U.S. Army Air Force WW II / Korea; enlisted 5 Feb 1942 Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section 36 Site 500
Shelton, Robert DeWitt
Born: 9 Jul 1930 Died: 25 Nov 2016 Service: U.S. Air Force Korea; served 1950 - 1954 Burial:St. Mary's Memorial Garden Cemetery Plot: J 01 001 B
Shelton, Samuel Millard "Sam"
Born: 18 Aug 1917 Died: 12 Jul 2012 Service: Capt. U.S. Navy (ret.) WW II Korea Vietnam; served 1 Aug 1940 - 30 Jun 1964 Burial:Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section E, Site 975
Shelton joined U.S. Navy on August 1st, 1940, retired June 30th, 1964 as a Capt., was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross; Air Medal; Presidential Unit Citation, Navy Unit Commendation Medal; Korean Presidential Unit Citation; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Ribbon, Philippine Liberation Ribbon; China Service Medal UN and Korean Service Medal.
Shepard, Hamilton Hays "Shep"
Born: 22 Apr 1922 Died: 4 Apr 2009 Service: U.S. Navy WW II; 1942 - 1964 Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Shibe, John Hamilton
Born: 26 Mar 1929 Died: 21 Apr 2018 Service: U.S. Air Force Korean War; served 1952 - 1956 Burial:Cremated
Shields, Robert Julius "Bob", Dr.
Born: 27 Feb 1924 Died: 16 Mar 2012 Service: U.S. Navy WW II Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Shibe proudly served 4 years in the Air Communications Service in the United States Air Force during the Korean War with service in K-10 AFB in South Korea, Iwakuni and Fuchu AFBases in Japan and Andrews and March AFB back home.
Shields joined the Naval Aviation V5 program, and after flight training schools received his wings & commission in December 1944 at Corpus Christi, TX. He chose sea planes and flew the OS2U-3 Kingfisher and finally the SC-1 Sea Hawk which was shot into flight from the USS St. Paul, CA-73, landed in the sea for recovery and hoisted back to the ship. The St. Paul was in training to invade Japan until the capitulation and was along side the USS Missouri at the signing of the peace treaty. He absolutely loved his navy days and flying and would regale any ready listeneer with tales of his adventures, many of which were with Gene Kelly, a ship mate in the aviation division.
Shindler, Robert Conrad
Born: 24 Jul 1923 Died: 2 Oct 2010 Service: U.S. Army Air Corp WW II; enlisted 24 Jan 1942 Burial:Seaside Memorial Park
Shipp, Marion
Born: 22 Nov 1894 Died: 16 Apr 1938 Service: Texas, PVT 116 Inf. 29 Div., WW I Burial:Varga Chapel Cemetery
Shipp, William Anderson "W. A."
Born: 22 Nov 1842 Died: 6 Apr 1932 Service: Comp C, 16th Regiment Texas Inf. CSA; served 17 Mar 1862 - 1864 Burial:Varga Chapel Cemetery
In 1942 at the age of 18, Bob volunteered for basic training in the Army Air Corp. During World War II, he participated in the Salerno invasion and Sicily, Italy, as well as duty in northern Africa and Corsica, southern France. He was honorably discharged in 1945, receiving the EAME Campaign Medal with seven bronze stars and a Bronze Arrowhead.
William Anderson Shipp served in the CSA along with John Campbell, of Willow City , Texas and A. G. Peevy, of Johnson City, Texas.
