Jimmie Dale Still
Jimmie Dale Still
U.S. Army
Specialist 4 [E-4]
Biography:
Jimmie Dale Still grew up in Bonaparte in Van Buren County. There he attended and was a 1967 graduate from Harmony High School. After school he was employed by the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant in Burlington until he was drafted. Still was inducted into the Army in February 1969 and started a tour in South Vietnam that July. SP4 Still served with the 1st Air Cavalry Division as a gunner near Song Be, South Vietnam. He was granted a temporary leave from Vietnam in October 1969; he briefly returned to Bonaparte and married a girl from nearby Cantril before returning to Southeast Asia. On January 1, 1970 SP4 Still was killed from an accidental explosion of a mine. He was posthumously awarded two Bronze Stars and an Air Medal. The 20-year-old’s body was returned to Iowa and buried in a family plot at the Thompson Cemetery in Bonaparte. Three months after his death Still’s widow birthed their daughter.
County:
Van Buren
City of Entry | Bonaparte | |
Conflict/Time Period | Vietnam War | Service Location | Organization(s) | Separation Status | Killed In Action (KIA) | Specialty/Rate | Specific Jobs |