African American, Company C, Alaska Highway. WW2 and Korea Veteran. Born: 26 April 1917, Lawrenceville, VA. Died: 21 October 2008, Holden Worchester, Massachusetts. Enlisted: 29 January 1946, Norfolk, VA, Regular Army, Quartermaster and discharged 31 July 1962.
Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: 1940, he was employed with Water Front Lumber Company as pulp wood laborer. His father was George Rivers, farm laborer, and his mother was Alice Margain Rivers.
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