SOURCE: Donald Stidham (I9757) of Hazel Park, Michjgan Who's Who of America's Stidhams, Scottsdale Family Treasures, Scottsdale, Arizona. 1992.

SOURCE: Maude S. Fortney, letter dated 2 Oct 1978

SOURCE: Teresa Stidham (trya5384-at-tds.net), email dated 22 June 2002.

CENSUS: 1930 Leslie Co., Kentucky census (Hyden)--enumerated with father

MILITARY: US Army, World War II, Private first Class. Enlisted 17 Nov 1945 at New Castle Army Air Base, Delaware. At time of enlistment: Single. Education: grammar school. Civil occupation: farmer. Source: National Archives and Records Administration. U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005. Original data: Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946 [Archival Database]; World War II Army Enlistment Records; Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 64; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. (from Ancestry.com)

OCCUPATION; coal miner and masonry worker

DEATRH-BURIAL: Obituary for Arie "Mitchell" Combs (send by Particia crutchfield, 21 Mar 2008).

OBITUARY: Mr. Lenuel Stidham born August 28, 1924 departed this life on March 05, 2008 at theEast Kentucky Veteran?s Center, Hazard, Ky. He was 83 years, 6 months, and 6 days old. Lenuel was born in Blue Grass Hollow, Perry Co., Ky., the son of the late Harrison Stidham and Mallie Lewis Stidham. Lenuel was a veteran of World War II, having served in the U.S. Army. He was a retired coal miner and masonry worker. Lenuel was a member of the Hurts Creek Church of Christ, Hyden, Ky., and enjoyed carpentry and working with his hands as hobbies. He was a life-long resident of Leslie Co., living at 111 Shadow Drive at the time of his death. Mr. Lenuel Stidham was preceded in death by his parents, Harrison Stidham and Mallie Lewis Stidham, and four brothers, Rex, Darrell, Gene, & Ed Stidham. Mr. Lenuel Stidham leaves the following relatives surviving :his wife, Jewel Stidham of Hyden, Ky., three daughters, Teresa Asher and Dale of Hyden, Ky., Sonya Stidham of Richmond, Ky., Robin Gambill and husband, David, of Hyden, Ky., two brothers, David Stidham and wife, Jean, of Hyden, Ky., Kenneth Stidham and wife, Eunice of Indiana, & two sisters, Dorothy Pace of Hyden, Ky., and Gladys Bowling of London, Ky., seven Grandchildren, Shane, Dayton, Kristy, Shanna, Sheena, Rachel, Paige, and six Great Grandchildren, Morgan, Dalton, Austin, Taylor, Sarah and Kira , and a host of other relatives and friends to mourn his death. The funeral service for Mr. Lenuel Stidham will be conducted at 3:00 p.m. - Saturday - March 08, 2008 at the Dwayne Walker Funeral Home Chapel with Doug Caldwell, Craig Melton & Hobie Hayes officiating. The interment will follow in the Grassy Gap Cemetery located at Hyden, Ky., with full military rites observed by Leslie County D.A.V. Chapter # 133 of Hyden, Ky. Friends may call for visitation after 6:00 p.m.- Friday at the funeral home. (Lexington Herald-Ledger, 7 March 2008)

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