- SURNAME
Dickerson
- FORENAME
James Searcy
- UNIT
2nd Ranger Bn (Company C)
- RANK
2nd Lieutenant
- NUMBER
02017972
- AWARD
Silver Star
- PLACE
Europe 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 26.03.1924, Waco, Texas, USA
died 29.05.2007 (Aged 83) Shelby County, Tennessee
father Robert Carl Dickerson (1884-1953)
mother Camille Virginia (nee Searcy) Dickerson (1898-1996)
attended Central High School
30.06.1942 draft card Brevard, North Carolina
served Korea (purple heart)
1951 married Nell (nee Fargason) Dickerson (1928-2018)
2 children (Nell & James Jr.)
undergraduate degree University of Virginia
masters degree from the American Graduate School of International Management
15 years export merchant firm (founder)
cotton and soybean farm (Mississippi)
died 29.05.2007, Aged 83, Shelby County, Tennessee
Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee
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