6 H HONORING OUR VETERANS
in memory Richard Jessup
Herbert Fuller McCutcheon
Richard graduated from MontezumaCortez High School in 1990. He left shortly after graduation for the Marine Corps. Richard served in Desert Storm arriving on Christmas day 1990. He completed his service with the Marines in 1994. HHHHH
Leonard A Hammock
U.S. Navy 1943 to 1946 Tribute from Lea, Darin, Liv and Brooklyn James HHHHH
entered the Marine Corps in Sept. 1989. In 1990, he served in Desert Storm where he was a helicopter mechanic. He later served in Somalia. Rod became a crew chief and while on a training flight was killed when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed on Feb. 14, 2002. He left behind a wife, five children, his parRoderick ents, two brothers and a Nesmith sister. Roderick graduated Rod was named after from Montezuma-Cortez his dad’s best friend who High School in 1989 and was killed in Vietnam.
World War I veteran: Herbert was born in Tennessee on July 21, 1896 and entered the Army in the fall of 1918. He served in France with the 57th Infantry. His military service ended in 1919 Herbert moved to Cortez in 1935 and operated the Cannon Ball Bus for several years. Herbert’s family includes his son G.W. McCutheon of Cortez, granddaughters Debie Schmitt and Gail Barker of Cortez, and deceased grandsons Mike McCutcheon, who died in 2000, and Tim McCutcheon, who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War and died in 1983. HHHHH
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Russel Aulston
Carl Anton Maria Eugene Rollmann
1835-1897, Civil War veteran Born in Germany and five years after arriving in the U.S. he became a U.S. citizen; then in 1861, he enlisted in the 11th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteer Calvary. He participated in the engagement of Shiloh, Corinth and Sherman’s expedition to Mississippi and many others. He served nearly four years and re-enlisted with
the rank of Sgt. Major. In 1864 he was commissioned Quartermaster and First Lieutenant. His service ended in 1865. Eugene wrote a chronicle of his regiment throughout the war, which was donated to the Illinois State Historical Library. Several of his hand-drawn maps of the Vicksburg, Miss. still exist. Eugene is the great grandfather of Joan Rollmann Tozer. She is married to Chester Tozer and they live in McElmo Canyon.
Military Service: U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945, fought in World War II. Russel fought in the Battle of the Bulge where he was wounded and taken prisoner. He was set free when General Patton’s 44th Division busted through the steel gates of the prison with its tanks. Sixty-six years after he was wounded, he received medals for his valor. In July of this year, Russel received the Bronze Star, the Purple
Heart and the Prisoner of War medal. Russel passed away on Oct. 15 at the age of 93.
Russel Aulston from World War II.