PEERY, Paul Davis^[1]

1930 - 2017  (86 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	PEERY, Paul Davis
  Birth	25 May 1930	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Gender	Male
  WAC	19 Oct 1950	SLAKE
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Death	9 Apr 2017
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  Person ID	I47254	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	PEERY, Joseph Stras ,   b. 5 Oct 1868, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States Ogden, Weber, Utah, United Statesd. 8 Dec 1946, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 78 years)
  Mother	DAVIS, Liliu ,   b. 11 Dec 1892, Laie, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States Laie, Honolulu, Hawaii, United Statesd. 17 May 1984, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	19 Mar 1924	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States   [2, 3, 4]
  Family ID	F7538	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	STODDARD, Virginia Claire
  Marriage	16 Sep 1958  [4]
  Family ID	F24446	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Divorce Judgment & Decree, Gooding, Gooding, Idaho, 6 Jan 1967. Virginia Claire Stoddard, only daughter of Howard James Stoddard (b.1 Nov 1901, Baker City, Oregon; d.15 Jun 1971, Detroit, Wayne, Mich) & Jennie Creer Stoddard (b. 28 Jul 1902, Spanish Fork, Utah; d. 13 Feb 2000, Harbor Springs, Mich). From October 1950 to March 1956, Paul Davis Peery served 2-years as an Elder in the Central States Mission (Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas & Oklahoma) for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Under Construction. Paul Davis Peery, at 22, was drafted into the U.S. Army In January 1953, at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City, Utah, during the Korean War. Nearly 4 months earlier, he had returned home in Salt Lake City following a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From October 1950 to October 1952, he served as an ordained missionary, an Elder in the Central States Mission, based in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri. The mission covered 4 states: Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas & Oklahoma. During that time he was called to be Mission Secretary under President J. Orval Ellsworth, Ph.D., a former Professor of Marketing at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado. Within a month after returning home to Salt Lake City from the mission, Paul received a letter from the local Draft Board. This was followed by a medical examination and tests. The results were to classify him as 1-A for military service. He received another letter notifying him of his induction into the U.S. Army and to report to Fort Douglas in Salt Lake City on January 2x, 1953. Folllowing swearing in, those drafted were oriented and given written tests. He was sent to Fort Ord, Monterey County, California for basic training. While there, he applied for Officers Candidate School, was accepted, and attended Leadership School at Fort Ord, awaiting further orders. The Korean War began on xxxx, 1950. Many of those in Private Peery's basic training class were expected to be sent there. On xxxx 1953, however, the war ended, while Paul was still at Fort Ord. It had lasted about 3 years, with reportedly 50,000 American military killed. When further orders came at Fort Ord, Paul was ordered to report to Fort Benning, Georgia, the Infantry School, on August 17, 1953. Upon arrival, he was assigned to the Third Platoon, 11th Officer Candidate Company, Class 2, 1st Officer Candidate Regiment, The School Brigade. The platoon began with 54 candidates. During the first two weeks, the tactical officers drove hard to break them, resulting in many dropping out of the program. Six months later the platoon had lost 33 candidates, 61.11%, leaving 21 who successfully completed the course, 38.89%. At a graduation ceremony on February 12, 1954, the surviving candidates were commissioned Second Lieutenants, U.S. Army Reserve. The class began with 167 aspiring men. Of those, 97, or 58.08% either dropped out, or were washed out of the training, resulting in a graduating class of 70, or 41.92%. Lt. Paul D. Peery had successfully completed a year of Army training, including a rigorous six months in O.C.S. The candidates survived rigorous physical training, together with periodic interviews and evaluations by their assigned Tactical Officer; and written evalutions by fellow platoon candidates who lived with them in the barracks. The survivors were dependable finishers, not quitters. Lt. Peery was never ordered to be sent to Korea, or anywhere out of the United States. Being commissioned in the Ordnance Corps, he was ordered to report to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, the Ordnance Center, for Ordnance Training. Upon completion, he was ordered to report to Fort Knox, Kentucky, the Armored Center, where he was assigned as Training Officer in a 3rd Echelon, Heavy Maintenance Company that serviced damaged tanks, Company xxx, xxx Battalion, xxxx Ordnance Corps. He taught classes and provided moving plans for the company in preparation for a major Battalion bivouc training exercise. His experience working in the large company of some 300 men, many of them combat veterans, was to his liking. There were numerous Master Sergeants in the company, in the range of 30 men. He benefited from working with the troops, something he sought as an officer. While he was not a career officer, the military life appealed to him. While at Fort Knox, he lived at a Bachelors Officers Quarters (BOQ). His day was like having a job, with regular hours, going home at the end of the day, but with occasional special assignments. Eighteen months after being with the company, the young officer was promoted to 1st Lieutenant. Being recognized for the training work he had done for the company, he was offered the Training Officer position at Battalion Level. This was a move-up to a more responsible position. With less than six months left in his required time in the military, however, he chose to stay with the company and troop duty. He had a broad variety of assignments in the company during his two years there. On February xx, 1954, having served the two years required upon graduation at O.C.S, Paul D. Peery was honorably discharged from active duty in the U.S. Army. He was required to remain in the U.S. Army Reserve for the next six years, after which he was released as a U.S. Army Reserve Officer. In all, his experience in the military was meaningful and productive. He may well have made a successful career out of it, but chose otherwise. Instead he returned to finish his fourth year of schooling at the Unversity of Utah, from which he graduated in 1956 with a BS degree in Business. He majored in Marketing, with a minor in Economics. Under the G.I. Bill, he continued his studies at Columbia University in New York, where he obtained a Masters Degree in the Graduate School of Business, Class of 1959, majoring in Finance. He began his career in investments with First National City Bank in New York in it's wholly owned Farmers Loan & Trust Company at 20 Exchange Place in the Wall Street Financial District. He subsequently became a Senior Associate, Investment Counselor, with Lehman Brothes, International Investment Bankers, a private partnership based at One William Street, New York.

  
  

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  [S100] Shauna Smith ssmith6@socal.rr.com, GEDCOM file imported on 26 May 2000. [S408] Phyllis Evans Kesler, 3157 Louise, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84109, #27. [S409] Phyllis Evans Kesler, 3157 Louise, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84109, #14. [S411] Liliu Davis Peery, 1763 Herbert Avenue, Salt Lake City 8, Utah, Family record by Joseph Stras Peery.