Date of birth: 04 Jan 1920
Date of death: 12 Jul 1944

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Burial Information

Section 10 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0108-03
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

Branch: US ARMY - 9TH DIVISION OF 1ST ARMY
Rank: 1st Lt - First Lieutenant
War/Campaign: WORLD WAR II - Casualty of D-Day in St. Lo, Normandy, France, North African, Sicilian, and Italian Campaigns
Killed in Action: Yes
KIA Date: 12 Jul 1944
KIA Location: St. Lo, Normandy, France
KIA Campaign: WORKD WAR II
Military Notes: 1st Lt. - 9th Division of 1st Army- killed in St. Lo, Normandy, France He served in North African and Sicilian and Italian Campaigns.

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Notes

Obituary

Lt. Nathan Hooker
Killed In Action
In France 12Th

All Lexington was shocked and saddened by the tragic news of he death of Lt. Nathan B. Hooker who was killed in action in France on July 12th, according to a telegram received from the War Department by his mother, Mrs. N. B. Hooker, Monday.

Lt. Hooker had been in the service two years having gone in a short while after his graduation from the University of Mississippi in 1943. He had participated in the campaigns in Africa and Sicily before going to France.

He was the son of the late Nathan B. Hooker and Mrs. Hooker, of Lexington, a family long prominent in the growth and development of Holmes county. He was born and reared in Lexington and spent his entire life there. He was a young man of unusually pleasing personality and fine character and a wide circle of friends mourn; his loss.

Mrs. R. E. Wilburn, of Lexington, is the maternal grandmother.

Lexington Advertiser
Lexington, MS
Aug 3, 1944

1st Lt. Nathan Berry Hooker, Jr. 9th Division of 1st Army

Son of Nathan Berry & Martha Wilburn Hooker. Born in Lexington, Mississippi: January 4, 1920.

Graduated from Ole Miss, May, 1942 and was immediately commissioned into the Army.

Served in the North African, Sicilian and Italian Campaigns.

After a successful D-Day invasion on Omaha Beach, Lt. Hooker was killed in action at Saint Lo, Normandy, France on July 12, 1944.

The Holmes County Herald
Lexington, MS
July 7, 1994

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