Chesterfield County Military Veterans~Walter Joseph Johns, Jr.

In Honor of our Chesterfield County Military Veterans 

WWII Victory Medal

Walter J. Johns, Jr. served in World War II. Walter was born on 7 September 1918, a child of Walter Joseph Johns, Sr. and his wife Arletha Quick. Like most young men of this time, coming out of the Great Depression in 1929 and entering the 1930 as a teenager, Walter worked as a farm hand. There wasn’t much else left to do within the County. 

By 1935 when Walter was a young man, age 17, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration. This agency created millions of job throughout the United States putting the idle workers of the depression back to work. Then a few short years later we entered the War raging in Europe.

As shown by the chart below, Walter J. Johns, single, age 22 joined the US Army as a Private on 14 January 1941. 

Walter returned home and married Kathleen in June 1954. Walter Joseph Johns, Jr. died 8 July 1985 in Chesterfield, South Carolina and was buried at Bethesda United Methodist Church Cemetery, Chesterfield, South Carolina.  

Walter Joseph Johns, Jr. is my 1st cousin once removed.










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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Victory_Medal_%28United_States%29
[2] "U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010," on-line digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : Viewed 2 May 2014), Walter Johns; citing Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, D.C.: Department of Veterans Affairs.; Enlistment Date 1: 14 Jan 1941; Release Date 1: 3 Jul 1945.