Earl Hampton Daughdrill

Services for Earl Daughdrill, 95, retired owner of the Nuevo Market will be held at the Acheson and Graham Garden of Prayer Mortuary, 7944 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside, CA 92504 and burial following at the Riverside National Cemetery.

Born in Nauvoo, Alabama, February 20, 1920. Died in Loma Linda, CA August 7, 2015.

Earl's family left Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl era and migrated to Riverside County in 1935

In 1967, he and his wife built, opened and operated the Nuevo Market in Nuevo, CA. Earl loved to travel throughout the United States and Europe. His travels took him to the mid-west and many of the southern states and he visited France, England, Scotland, Belgium, Wales, Poland and Germany. Music was his source of inspiration, including big band, pop and gospel. He especially liked, Frank Sinatra, The Andrew Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Phil Driscoll, and Mahalia Jackson.

Earl was drafted during WW!! and served in the 60th armored infantry battalion. During the Battle of the Bulge, his battalion was assigned to General Patton's unit as a support group. They were called the "bastard battalion" because they were not assigned to any one division. Hewas called in to replace the mortally wounded moartar man and during that time he was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge.

Battles/ Campaigns: Rhineland and Ardennes European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal - Good conduct medal, Purple Hart, WW!! Victory Medal, Wounds received in Action, Germany March 1945

He is survived by a daughter RuthAnn of Riverside, three sons, Gary of Palm Springs, Barry of Atwater and Tim of Parma, Idaho, one brother, Criss Edward Jr., of Berea, Kentucky, eleven grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren