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Submitted: 11/20/24 • Approved: 12/2/24 • Last Updated: 12/5/24 • R1548398-G1548397-S3
Walter Howard Pearce
FIRST LIEUTENANT US Army
World War II
November 18, 1916 - August 5, 1999
Betty Jo Branson Pearce
September 6, 1925 - July 19, 1995
*When Walter Howard Pearce was born on November 18, 1916, in Little Rock, Arkansas, his father, Walter, was 21 and his mother, Corinne, was 22. He married Martha Belle Langston on May 21, 1944, in Marianna, Arkansas. He then married Betty Jo Branson and they had two children together. He died on August 5, 1999, in his hometown at the age of 82, and was buried in Alexander, Arkansas.
Walter Howard Pearce and Martha Belle Langston were divorced on November 18, 1948, in Pulaski, Arkansas, after 4 years of marriage. He was 32 years old.
When Betty Jo Branson was born on September 6, 1925, in Little Rock, Arkansas, her father, Herby, was 21, and her mother, Patricia, was 18. She married Charles Clinton Campbell and they had one daughter together. She then married Walter Howard Pearce and they had two children together. She died on July 19, 1995, in her hometown at the age of 69, and was buried in Alexander, Arkansas.
Betty Jo Branson and Charles Clinton Campbell were divorced on November 25, 1947, in Pulaski, Arkansas, after 2 years of marriage. She was 22 years old.
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