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State Highway 505 to be Named for Jewell Creston Embry

On Saturday, May 14 at 11 A.M. CDT, a naming ceremony for State Highway 505 will be held at New Zion Baptist Church in Baizetown to honor the late Jewell Creston Embry.

Jewell Creston Embry was born in Baizetown, Kentucky in January of 1920. At age 16 he walked 50 miles to enlist in the United States Naval Service. During World War II, after an intense battle in the Straits of Malucca, Embry was taken as a POW by the Japanese. He was moved around to different camps, tortured repeatedly, and forced to do slave labor.

When the Japanese surrendered after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Embry and fellow Kentuckian Ralph Adkins walked and hitchhiked through Japan to become two of the first prisoners-of-war to be liberated.

Embry received the Purple Heart medal for his war-time injuries. In 1992, he succumbed to serious health problems stemming from his imprisonment.

Jewell Creston Embry:
 
Birth:     Jan. 27, 1920 Baizetown, Ohio County, Kentucky, USA
Death:     Apr. 16, 1992 Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas, USA

Parents:
  Marion Armstrong Embry (1873 - 1956)
  Lola Eva Albin Embry (1885 - 1977)
 
 Spouses:
  Carmen Dianne Wheeler Embry (1932 - 2005)
  Julia Martine Taylor Embry (1916 - 1958)
 
 Children:
  Patricia Diane Pearce Embry Wilder (1954 - 1987)
 Siblings:
  Nina Embry (1904 - 1918)
  Carlos Brogdon Embry (1906 - 1974)
  Conward Clifton Embry (1910 - 1938)
  Jewell Creston Embry (1920 - 1992)
 
Burial: Colonel Ledyard Cemetery, Groton, New London County, Connecticut, USA

Senator C.B. Embry thanks all veterans for their service and encourages members of the community to join him in thanking this hometown hero on May 14.

 

Senator C.B. Embry, JR (R-Morgantown) represents the 6th District including Butler, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, and Ohio Counties. He is Vice Chair of Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection, Chair of the Budget Review Subcommittee on Education, and member of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy, and Transportation Committees.

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