Alaska Highway, Company B. Born: 29 July 1917, Kentucky. Died: 17 April 1978, Kentucky. Enlisted: 9 September 1941, Louisville, KY. Released: 29 December 1945. Education: grammar school, 5th grade. Occupation: truck driver. In 1940 census he was listed as a farm laborer. Father: Homer Staples, tenant farmer, 1892-1954. Mother: Stella Edday Staples, ? – 1969.