African American, Company C, Alaska Highway. Born: 27 December 1919, Lennig, Halifax, Virginia. Died: 22 December 1990, Fayetteville, Cumberland, NC. Enlisted: 10 October 1941 at Roanoke, VA and discharged 20 November 1945.
Education: grammar school. Civil occupation: general farming. His father was Edd “Eddie” R. Penick (1884-1944), a farm laborer and his mother was Patience Edmondson (1884-1968). He married Estell Wimbish on 26 July 1944, Lennig, VA.
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