Concho Valley Vietnam Veterans Memorial

The Concho Valley Vietnam Veterans Memorial is located in San Angelo, Texas, at the entrance to the municipal airport and Knickerbocker Road. It is a tribute to the 48 men from 15 of the West Texas Concho Valley counties who died in service related to the Vietnam War...and to those who served and survived. 

San Angelo Mayor Dick Funk and Armando Vasquez, President of Chapter 457, signed a Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park Agreement on 23 May 1995. The May 1995 Agreement outlines the general responsibilities of both signatories and includes an artist's conception drawing. More documents will be uploaded as they become available. The memorial was dedicated on May 17, 1997. 

The Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) San Angelo Chapter 457 maintains the memorial. They also administer the memorial paver program. Click any of the images in the above slideshow or HERE to link to the photo gallery of 700 memorial pavers installed in the plaza underneath the helicopter.  

Individual names listed on the memorial black granite monument are replicated below. Each name is linked to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Wall of Faces website. Additional information for certain individuals is available on the Permian Basin Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Honor States websites. Links are provided at the bottom of this page.    

 

Crockett County

Gary Don Pagan

Kimble County

Roger Bruce Baxter
Gerald W. Fritz
Glenn Eugene Pelton
Edward Charles Sanchez
James P. Boyd

Menard County

Jimmy Wayne Crisp

McCulloch County

Freddie Allen Bonetti
Leonard Eugene Easley
Burton Kyle McCord

Reagan County

Robert Earl Worth

Runnels County

Danny D. Gard
Gary Lynn Spieker
Emmitt James Wilkey Jr.
Richard Thomas Busenlehner
Homer Erick Tischler

San Saba

John Bill Higginbotham
* Joe Reyna, Jr. 

Schelicher

Elton Odis Harris
 ** David Dewayne Overstreet 

Tom Green

John P. Bartley                               Louis F. Jones  
   James David Brown                        Oscar R. Juarez         
     Leroy Burks Jr.                       Robert Stanley Knadler 
           Lorenzo Chapa Jr.                  Raymond Francis Leftwich       
   Harris Lester Collins                         Norman Earl Little       
     Charles Ray Crim                    David Dewayne Overstreet
    Rex Wayne Doyle                          David Allen Parker     
          Lloyd William Evans Jr.                  Michael Courtney Quinn           
   Charles Milton Fitts                           Roberto Pena Rios     
     Mario Gonsalez                           Pedro Juan Rodriguez  
      William A. Griffis III                      Kenneth Truman Russell    
 Leslie Earl Harris Jr.                      Allen Frank Scranton Jr.
 Henry Wilburn Hartman                          Albert Tijerina Jr.          
     George Richard Henson                       William Scott Watts             
                                                         Jimmy Ray Wheless   

There were no KIA or POW/MIA reported for the following counties:

Coke - Concho - Irion - Mason - Sterling - Sutton

 

* Added from Wall of Faces
** Also listed in Tom Green County 

 

 

 vvmf.org/wall-of-Faces  Linked by permission
HonorStates.org: Copyright 2018  Linked by permission
PBVVeteransMemorial.us   Linked by permission

    This webpage provided as a public service by
the EC-47 History Site 50th Vietnam War Commemorative Partner Program committee.