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Submitted: 4/14/08 • Approved: 4/14/08 • Last Updated: 6/11/20 • R23203-G0-S3
Jay Ross Adair
Born June 3, 1921 - Kamas, Summit, Utah
Died April 5, 1944 - Romania
Son of Ed J. Adair & Hazel D. Park Adair
Born in Kamas, Utah, on June 3, 1921, Jay spent the greater part of his life in Heber, where his father was stationed as a ranger for the Uintah national forest. Jay was a graduate of Wasatch high school and attended Brigham Young University from 1939-40. After having been employed in mines of the Park City - Heber area, he enlisted on September 20, 1942 and had been in the service for several months when he married Viola Wardle of Duchesne, September 29, 1943. He eventually ended up overseas as a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber. In the Spring of 1944, having successfully completed 26 missions and been awarded an air medal, Sergeant Adair was reported missing in action over Ploesti oil fields in Romania. Months later he was listed as killed in action April 5. His remains were found in a temporary grave and brought home to Heber 5 years later where a grave-side service was held and he was laid to rest in the family plot on April 25, 1951.
This brief history is from the Memorial Hall at Brigham Young University
Contributed on 4/14/08 by wasatchcemetery
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