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1930 living with parents
1940 living with wife at 493 East 14th Street listed as age 19
States he is a Platform Man for an Ice Company
States that in 1935 he was living in Caruthersville
NOTE that Lexie and wife were enumerated twice
on 4-19-1940 they were enumerated at 347 14th Street. living next door to his parents.
listed as age 18 states he is a delivery truck driver for an Ice and food distributor.
Enumerated in ED78-21

My grandfather was a fun and loving man. I remember that when I was a child he would alway s tell me that he would dance at my wedding, when I got married for the first time in 1981 , I was married in his house. When my older sister Toni was being taught to drive, I became j ealous. My grandfather took me in his car for a driving lesson of my own. It was the last le sson that he gave me, as I ended up with his car in a ditch.

Lexie served during World War II. He was on Omaha Beach on D-Day(6-6-1944) and was part of t he Red Ball Express.
Red Ball Express was in operation from August 25 to November 16, 1944.

U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 (ancestry.com)

Name: Lexie D Jones
Birth Year: 1921
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Tennessee
State: Missouri
County or City: Pemiscot

Enlistment Date: 28 May 1943
Enlistment State: Missouri
Enlistment City: Jefferson Barracks
Branch: No branch assignment
Branch Code: No branch assignment
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life

Education: Grammar school
Civil Occupation: Tracktor Driver* or Truck Driver, Heavy or Chauffeur or Truck Driver, Light An asterisk (*) appearing after a job title indicates that a trade test for the particular occupation willbe found in the United States Employment Service Manual, Oral Trade Test
Marital Status: Married
Height: 38
Weight: 089

• Married: 22 Feb 1940 in Caruthersville, Pemiscot County, Missouri
• Note:

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  OBTAINED FROM Sue Wilson
  
  Undated newspaper clipping, apparently from shortly after Friday December 11, 1970. Probably from the Caruthersville Democrat-Argus.
  Military Family Back to Germany
  Mrs. Richard Johnson and daughters, Tammy and Nancy, left Caruthersvile, Friday morning, Dec. 11, for Memphis and left there by plane for Nuremburg, Germany, to join their husband and father, Staff Sgt. Richard Johnson.
  Mrs. Johnson is the former Jeannette Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mfrs. Lexie D. Jones of 407 East 20th. For Jeanette the return to Nuremburg will be returning to some happy hours of her early life. Herfather is a retired Army Staff Sergeant, returing Jan. 31, 1967, with a rating of E-7 after 22 years of service, and the family moved back to Caruthersville. Mr. Jones and family spent several yearsin Germany at Army posts there. He was stationed and the family lived at Crailsheim, Germany, about 100 miles from Nuremburg, where Jeanette went to complete her high school education. It was while they were living at the Army post at Crailsheim that she met her future husband and they were married in the Crailsheim Post Chapel.
  Staff Sgt. Johnson left eary in November for his new post in Germany. They were living at an Army base near El Paso, Texas, when he received his new orders. They packed their furniture and shipped itto his new post and then he moved his family to Caruthersville to be with her parents until such time as suitable housing was available and the Army could arrange to move his family there.
  Mrs. Johnson and chidlren enjoyed Thanksgiving here with their parents.
  Mr. and Mrs. Jones' son, Staff Sgt. John E. Jones, who returned to Vietnam in February to finish out an unfinished tour of duty with the Air Force, has completed that period of service and is headed back to the United State. He was expected to arrive in Memphis Wednesday or Thursday of this week to spend the Christmas holidays here with his wife Marsha, and their two daughters, Toni and Johnnie, and with his parents. After the holidays he will report to a base in Texas.
  
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1. Living JONES
2. Lexie D. JONES b: 7 Aug 1943 in Portageville, New Madrid County, Missouri
3. Living JONES
4. Living JONES

1. Title: GEDCOM file imported on 7 Oct 2007.