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IN LOVING MEMORY OF Roy Lee Cole
Roy Lee
Cole
June 4, 1916 – February 16, 2009
Roy Lee Cole's Obituary
Roy Cole passed away Monday, Feb. 16, 2009, at the Boulder City Veterans Home, Boulder City, Nev.
Roy was born June 4, 1916, in Hutchinson to Samuel G. Cole and Viola O. Moore Cole.
He was captured at the fall of Corregidor in World War II, survived the Bataan Death March, The Japanese Hell Ships and spent three years as a POW in a Japanese coal mine forty miles from Nagasaki. When he came up from the coal mine he discovered that his camp was destroyed by incendiary bombs and everyone was gone. They escaped into the Japanese countryside. He was rescued and returned to the U.S. on the carrier USS Cape Gloucester. He retired from the Army in 1945.
He began working for the Kansas Department of Corrections in 1946 and retired in 1980. He then moved to Kingsport, Tenn., and worked as a Pinkerton. He moved to Joplin, Mo., then Grove, Okla. and Seneca, Mo. While in the Seneca Home Place, he was lovingly cared for by the ladies there. His health made it necessary to move to the Boulder City Veterans Home in Boulder City, Nev. He was a member of the Elks and Moose Lodges and the V.F.W.
He is survived by: two daughters, Denise Cole Kelley and husband Cal of Sandpoint, Idaho, and Cheryl Cole of Las Vegas, Nev.; two sons, Sam Cole of Hutchinson and Lee Cole of Beaver Creek, Ohio; two step daughters, Ruth Palicz Fader of Pittsburg, Calif., and Pat Cooper of Chanute; three grandchildren, Sally Pieprazyk of Hutchinson, Max Davis of Winter Park, Fla., and Jacob Cole Kelley of Sandpoint, Idaho; three great-grandchildren, a niece Beverly Hensley and husband Ed, and a nephew Richard Greever and wife Betty, both of Hutchinson.
He was preceded in death by his parents Samuel Gordon Cole and Viola Oletha Moore Cole Vinzant; brother, Harley Cole of Bend, Ore.; sister, Leola Cole Greever of Hutchinson; three wives, Marilyn Cole, Vi Cole and Lora Cole.
Graveside service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, in Penwell-Gabel Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hutchinson, with Pastor Robert L. Albin officiating. Military honors conducted by Fort Riley Honor Guard. Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. Friday at Elliott Mortuary with the family present from 6 to 7 p.m.
Memorials may be made to the Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Center (SADVC), in care of the mortuary.
Visit www.elliottmortuary.com to leave personal condolences for the family.
Roy was born June 4, 1916, in Hutchinson to Samuel G. Cole and Viola O. Moore Cole.
He was captured at the fall of Corregidor in World War II, survived the Bataan Death March, The Japanese Hell Ships and spent three years as a POW in a Japanese coal mine forty miles from Nagasaki. When he came up from the coal mine he discovered that his camp was destroyed by incendiary bombs and everyone was gone. They escaped into the Japanese countryside. He was rescued and returned to the U.S. on the carrier USS Cape Gloucester. He retired from the Army in 1945.
He began working for the Kansas Department of Corrections in 1946 and retired in 1980. He then moved to Kingsport, Tenn., and worked as a Pinkerton. He moved to Joplin, Mo., then Grove, Okla. and Seneca, Mo. While in the Seneca Home Place, he was lovingly cared for by the ladies there. His health made it necessary to move to the Boulder City Veterans Home in Boulder City, Nev. He was a member of the Elks and Moose Lodges and the V.F.W.
He is survived by: two daughters, Denise Cole Kelley and husband Cal of Sandpoint, Idaho, and Cheryl Cole of Las Vegas, Nev.; two sons, Sam Cole of Hutchinson and Lee Cole of Beaver Creek, Ohio; two step daughters, Ruth Palicz Fader of Pittsburg, Calif., and Pat Cooper of Chanute; three grandchildren, Sally Pieprazyk of Hutchinson, Max Davis of Winter Park, Fla., and Jacob Cole Kelley of Sandpoint, Idaho; three great-grandchildren, a niece Beverly Hensley and husband Ed, and a nephew Richard Greever and wife Betty, both of Hutchinson.
He was preceded in death by his parents Samuel Gordon Cole and Viola Oletha Moore Cole Vinzant; brother, Harley Cole of Bend, Ore.; sister, Leola Cole Greever of Hutchinson; three wives, Marilyn Cole, Vi Cole and Lora Cole.
Graveside service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, in Penwell-Gabel Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hutchinson, with Pastor Robert L. Albin officiating. Military honors conducted by Fort Riley Honor Guard. Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. Friday at Elliott Mortuary with the family present from 6 to 7 p.m.
Memorials may be made to the Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Center (SADVC), in care of the mortuary.
Visit www.elliottmortuary.com to leave personal condolences for the family.
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