SGT. BENJAMIN SPARKS Sgt. Benjamin Sparks, 22, a casualty of World War II, who
met his death on foreign soil on April 12, 1945, was
returned here last week for reburial.Sgt. Sparks was born in Johnson County, Kentucky, the son of
William and Hettie Harris Sparks, and had been a resident of
Flat Gap, Ky.Besides his parents, who now live at Sunbury, Ohio, he is
survived by four brothers, Douglas, Sunbury, Ohio; Theodore,
Garrett, Ky.; Edward, Sunbury, Ohio; and Eugene, Sunbury,
Ohio; and six sisters, Mrs. Ora N. Hensley, Sunbury, Ohio;
Mrs. Thomas Chandler, Jenkins, Ky.; Miss Gloria Mae Sparks,
Miss Bertha Fay Sparks, Miss Harva Lee Sparks, and Miss
Betty Jean Sparks, all of Sunbury, Ohio.Funeral sevices were held on Sunday, April 17, 1949 at the
Franks Creek Schoolhouse, by the Revs. Bruce Daniel and
Mitchell Grim, Reinterment was in the Harris cemetery at
Winifred, Ky., under the direction of the Jones Funeral
Home.
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