Elmer B. Powell Jr. DVM Grave - Paradise Valley, Arizona
N 33° 31.454 W 111° 55.973
12S E 413371 N 3709795
A veterinarian's grave thousands of miles away from the Far East lists him as a former POW and a survivor of the Bataan Death March.
Waymark Code: WMBN1V
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 06/04/2011
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A doctor of veterinary medicine, he is listed as a former POW and Bataan Death March survivor.
Tombstone reads:
Elmer B. Powell Jr. DVM
Jan 20, 1919 - Mar 8, 1984
Former POW Bataan Death March
Make me ever ready to come to you with
clean hands and straight eye so that when
life fades as the fading sunset, my spirit
may come to you without shame.
From an article in the Arizona Republic:
More current interments include Elmer B. Powell, a former prisoner of war in World War II who was in the Bataan Death March in the Philippines. Powell cheated death more than once, according to Paul Messinger, 75, of Messinger Mortuaries and Chapels.
"He was the veterinarian here in Scottsdale and he should have been killed about eight different times," Messinger said. "He was a Flying Tiger and shot down two different times, was sunk in a boat, was near where the atom bomb was dropped and got radiation sickness, was in another two airplane crashes in Arizona and finally lost his life to old age in 1984.
History buried at tiny cemetery by Linda Helser, The Arizona Republic
Aug. 20, 2005
Type of Resource: Grave
Other from above - Please Specify: n/a
Relevant Position in Armed Forces:
member of Flying Tigers, unknown rank
Nationality: US citizen
Date if Relevant: Not listed
Relevant Website: Not listed
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