ARTHUR ELMER BURCH, 80, was the son of
Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Burch, born Aug. 10, 1920 and
attended Ranger High School in the Class of 1939
at Ranger, TX.
As an Army Staff Sgt. in WWII he was a veteran of
the North African, Sicilian & Italian campaigns. He
was wounded twice in action. He was first wounded
on Sept. 14, 1943, during the invasion at Salerno
and was again wounded on Feb. 12, 1944, at Cassino
in Italy. He was awarded the Purple Heart & Oak Leaf
Cluster. SSGT Burch entered the service on Sept. 20,
1940 and had been in foreign service since April 1,
1943. He attended school in Ranger and Graford and
before going into service where he was employed by the
Stanolind Pipeline Company in Ranger. He married
Lucille Blakney and they were living in Ranger when
he died on April 18, 2001.