Name: Claude Robert Marvin Mowbray

                         Branch of Service: U.S. Marine Corps

                         Unit: Weapons Company, 3D Marine Div

                         Rank: PFC (WWII)

                         Dates of Service: 1943-1963

                         Theater of Service: Pacific, American

Claude Robert Marvin Mowbray was born on December 29, 1925, in Scottsville, Buckingham, Virginia; he was the son of Claude Mowbray and Bertha Beatrice (Ballowe) Mowbray.  After WWII, Claude continued his career as a Marine until 1963.  He married Glennis Delores Glenn on April 10, 1948, in Pasquotank, North Carolina.  Claude and Glennis divorced on July 11, 1974, in Henrico County, Virginia.  Claude married secondly, Joan Dorothy Fentriss Copeland on August 5, 1978, in New Kent County, Virginia.  Joan Mowbray passed away on January 12, 2010, in Chesterfield, Virginia, and shares a gravestone with Claude at Scottsville Cemetery, Scottsville, Virginia.