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LESLIE KARNESServices* for Sgt. 1 /c Leslif Leroy Karnes, 34, will be in the Bill O’Guinn Funeral Chapel, Tuesday at 2 pm, with the Rev. Wade Paris, pastor of Murray Lane Baptist church, officiating.Friends mav call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Sunday,Burial wtil be in the Memorial Park cemetery, with military rites by Army personnel from Ft. Leonard Wood, Sgt.i/c .lames Taylor, a close friend, will accompany the body,Sergeant Karnes was killed In action in Vietnam, Feb, 16, following; almost 19 years service in the army and was on his second duty in VietnamHe was a graduate of officers school. Ft, Polk, La,, and School of Americas in the Canal Zone, where he was trained in jungle operations He was a drill Instructor in hand-to-hand combat five years at Fort Polk.Karnes received the bronze star in Vietnam in 1963 and a silver star for a total of six medals.While serving in Korea, hf married Soon Lim, Sept, 191957.She and their three childrensurvive at their home at 83( Wayne,The nearly If,000 esc alators iri the United States c (i ii I lt;1 iiif\ e an estimated
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Sikeston Daily Standard
Sikeston, Missouri, US
Sat, Feb 27, 1971
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