Our Father came from humble beginnings, born in Hartsville, South Carolina to Contest & Sarah Mae Fox (Herring), he also had an older sister named Catherine. His parents made a decision to move to Philadelphia, Pa. looking for a better opportunity and a better way of life. With the loss of his father as an adolescent, our father took the opportunity to join the Army & it would change his life forever.
The Army became the father he lost teaching him the lessons of life; dignity, discipline, devotion, honor, honesty truth & his favorite words “Internal Fortitude”. With ALL these characteristics he became a man’s man, Proud to wear the uniform & to service his county. He proved it every day he got up & put the uniform on and the proof showed up in his work. Our father accomplishment began happening early in his career:
1957 PVT., he was assigned to 605 th Antiaircraft Missile Battalion
1958 PFC he was assigned to the 15 th Artillery Group
1963 E4 of the 5 th Missile Battalion he was placed on the list for E5
1966 he became 1of 5 soldier’s to except the award “Solider of the Year” & this Honor
presented in Washington D.C.
1972 he received The Commendation Metal called the “Second Oak Leaf Cluster”
1973 a “Certificate of Appreciation” signed by President Richard Nixon.
1974 the “Third Oak Leaf Cluster”
While the Army was acknowledging our father’s accomplished, our father was changing the lives of America’s youth during his time as a recruiter. During his very busy & focused career, our father married Else K. Fox (Kling) in 1962, he fathered 2 children Georgia (Gigi) & Anthony (Tony), who were BLESSED by his service to see & experience the world. The lessons were hard but necessary to become the adults that
would made him Proud of who we had become. As his “Internal Fortitude” shined on his children, their children & their children’s children. Georgia had 2 children his first grandchildren, Donn’ve A. Adams & Chaunte’ A. Radford which gave him his great grands Brycen Robert Adams & Jace Carter Pauling. Our father led a full & productive life IMPACTING the LIVES HE TOUCHED!!!!!!
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