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    Person Info
  • Name: Dexal Ray SHANNON
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 4 Feb 1931 in Wiseman, Izard Co, Arkansas b
  • Death: 2 Mar 1992 in West Plains, Missouri d
  • Burial: Howell Valley Cemetery, Howell Co, Missouri u


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Eulis Ray SHANNON Birth: 2 Mar 1908 in Mountain View, Arkansas Death: 25 Sep 1975 in West Plains, Howell Co, Missouri
  • Mother:
  • Bessie Alma COZORT Birth: 21 Oct 1913 in Wiseman, Izard Co, Arkansas Death: 22 Aug 1934 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Living SHANNON
  2. Living SHANNON
  3. Living SHANNON
  4. Living SHANNON

Bibliography
  1. Shannon, Dexal, SHANNON 1571-1990. unpublished notebook, dated Dec 1990. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/778102. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p198],
place:
[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p198],
parents:
[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p198]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p0],
place:
[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p0]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p0]
Sources with Information about marriage to Living MORRISON
date:
[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p198],
place:
[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p198],
child:
[Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p199, ShannonD SHANNON p200]
Research Notes:
May 1949: graduated Salutatorian, Thayer High School, Thayer MO [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p198]

Nov 8 1950: enlisted in US Air Force; instructor in Clerk-Typist School and Adminstrative Clerk at USAF Contract School at Kansas State Teacher's College, Emporia, KS [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p198]

Aug 1952: acceptec for assignment with USAF Office of Special Investigations (OSI) [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p198]

Jan 1957: entered OCS; commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Jun 1957 [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p198]

Nov 30 1970: retired from USAF as a Major [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p198]

1970-84: worked for Missouri Div of Employment Security [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p198]

Aug 1984: opened "Shannon's Antiques and Furniture Refinishing" at West Plains [Ref: ShannonD SHANNON p198]



Pedigree of Dexal Ray SHANNON
                                                                /-----Thomas SHANNON
                                                       /-----Samuel SHANNON
                                                      |         \-----Agnes (SHANNON)
                                              /-----David SHANNON
                                             |        |         /-----John Col REID
                                             |         \-----Jane REID
                                             |                  \-----Jane STUART
                                     /-----David McKnight SHANNON
                                    |        |         /-----Robert McKNIGHT
                                    |         \-----Jane McKNIGHT
                            /-----David Reid SHANNON
                           |        |         /-----Andrew Gen PICKENS
                           |         \-----Anna PICKINS
                           |                  \-----Elizabeth F (PICKENS)
                   /-----William Jefferson SHANNON
                  |        |         /-----Richard GRAY
                  |         \-----Peggy Ann GRAY
                  |                  \-----Mary Polly GILMORE
          /-----John Burton SHANNON
         |        |         /-----Henry ASKEW
         |         \-----Indiana "Nan" ASKEW
 /-----Eulis Ray SHANNON
|        |         /-----Elihu GRAY
|         \-----Martha Isophene GRAY
|                 |         /-----Urias Jason SATTERFIELD
|                  \-----Ellen SATTERFIELD
|                           \-----Polly Ann THOMPSON
Dexal Ray SHANNON
|                  /-----James Chesley COZORT
|         /-----Franklin "Frank" COZORT
|        |         \-----Priscilla Jane McCULLOUGH
 \-----Bessie Alma COZORT
         |         /-----Granville ROBERTS
          \-----Amanda Jane ROBERTS
                   \-----Elizabeth Ellender HALL



Descendants of Dexal Ray SHANNON
1. Dexal Ray SHANNON m. Living MORRISON
m. Living MORRISON father: James Albert MORRISON mother: Nelle Mae CROMER

2nd generation

2. Living SHANNON m. Living CHILDERS
m. Living CHILDERS father: John Wesley CHILDERS mother: Living WALKER
3. Living SHANNON m. Living PETTIT
m. Living PETTIT father: Living PETTIT mother: Living FORD
4. Living SHANNON m. Living DURHAM
m. Living DURHAM father: Living DURHAM mother: Living COTTER