Crisp-Telfair-Tift County GaArchives Obituaries.....DOWDY, LT COL JOHN   October 19, 1945
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CORDELE DISPATCH
 TIFTON-LT COL JOHN DOWDY WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN GERMANY SEPT.16 ACCORDING TO 
A MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT ON OCT.4.BY HIS MOTHER MRS EVA MAE 
DOWDY.
 COL DOWDY WAS BORN IN TELFAIR COUNTY FEB.28,1918. HE ATTENDED THE McRAE -
HELENA SCHOOL.GORDON MILITARY COLLEGE, AND LATER RECEIVED HIS DEGREE FROM THE 
UNIVERSITY OF GA., WHERE HE WAS A MEMBER OF PI KAPPA ALPHA SOCIAL FRATERNITY.
 COL DOWDY ENTERED THE ARMY IN 1939 AS A SECOND LIETUNENT. HE WAS ONE OF THE 
VERY FEW MEN WHO WENT FROM THIS RANK TO LIEUTRNANT COLONEL IN THE SAME 
REGIMENT , WHICH WAS THE 22ND INFANTRY OF THE FAMED 4TH DIVISION THAT 
SPEARHEADED THE NORMANDY ATTACK.
 HE WAS AWARDE THE PURPLE HEART FOR WOUNDS RECEIVED IN FRANCE ON JUNE 28.AFTER 
TWO MONTHS TREATMENT IN AN ENGLAND HOSPITAL .COL DOWDY RETURNED TO HIS DUTIES 
AS FIRST BATTALION COMMANDER.
 COL DOWDY IS THE SON OF MRS EVA MAE DOWDY AND THE LATE JOHN DOWDY ,H.PRESCOTT 
DOWDY OF TIFTON,FORMERLY CONNECTED WITH THE LIBERTY NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE 
COMPANY, IS AN ONLY BROTHER .HE IS A NEPHEW OF MR AND MRS E.G. BRYAN ,OF MACON

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