Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

  • Jack Buck, former St Louis Cardinals baseball announcer. Sec. 85 Site 117
  • First Lieutenant Michael John Blassie, previously interred as the "Vietnam unknown soldier" at the Tomb of the Unknowns, reinterred here after DNA testing positively identified his remains.
  • Major Ralph Cheli, awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism while leading a bombing mission in World War II.
  • Franklin Gritts, Cherokee artist and art director of the Sporting News.
  • Johnnie Johnson, pioneering rock musician. Section 1J Site 8.
  • Robert McFerrin Sr. (1921–2006). Opera singer. Section 1BB Site 951.
  • Donald D. Pucket, pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces, awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II
  • Henry Townsend (1909–2006). Musician. Section 1I Site 610.
  • Mass grave of sixty-one merchant marines and sailors who died in the fire aboard the SS J. Pinckney Henderson on August 19, 1943.
  • 1LT Thomas Meehan III, Member of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, Portrayed in HBO's Band of Brothers.

As well, there are three veterans of the American Revolution buried in the Old Post Section:

  • Private Richard Gentry, veteran of the Revolutionary and the Indian Wars. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
  • Major Russell Bissell, veteran of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars.
  • Colonel Thomas Hunt, a "Minuteman" at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 1775. During the revolution he was wounded at the Battle of Stony Point and Siege of Yorktown. He was also a veteran of the Indian Wars.
  • Walter E. Cleveland

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