PFC Roy Argyle Stockton

courtesy of MKW

PFC Roy Argyle Stockton was born 14 Dec 1921 in Billings, Oklahoma. He was the oldest son of Elva Martha (Bowles) and her 2nd husband, Arthur Stockton. Roy's mother had had 3 children by her first husband. The Stockton family lived in Blackwell, Oklahoma where his younger brother was born and Severs, Oklahoma where the family farmed. By 1940 the depression and dust-bowl had forced the family to move to Lincoln, Missouri where Arthur joined the Civilian Conservation Corps supporting his family on $1 a day for 1939. Roy found work as farm labor. Roy was working for Robert Casteel in Bois D'arc, Missouri in 1942.

Roy was drafted in August 1942. After his basic military training he was sent to the European theater and on 8 Sep 1944 was transferred from the replacement depot to C Company 116th Infantry. PVT Stockton fought with his unit as a rifleman at Brest and then into Germany at Aachen. Promoted to PFC on 26 Oct 1944, he continued serving with C Company until 18 Nov 1944 when he was killed fighting German forces in Setterich, Germany.

PFC Stockton was repatriated in 1948 and he was re-interred in the Pennsboro Cemetery in Pennsboro, Missouri.