Wednesday, April 29, 2009
WWI- Era Veteran Dies
Robley Henry Rex, a WWI-era veteran who would have turned 108 this coming Saturday, died Tuesday at the Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Louisville, where, when he was 105, he was still volunteering three days a week and had logged more than 14,000 volunteer hours. At his 107th. birthday party last May he was presented the Governor's Award for Outstanding Service. In 2005, he was named National Volunteer of the Year by the national Veterans of Foreign Wars. Born in 1901 in Hopkinsville, he enlisted in the Army at the age of 18 and spent time in France and Germany before being discharged in 1922.
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