Abner Franklin Power Jr. was born Oct. 19, 1922, in Oklahoma. His father Frank was a railroad postal clerk and his mother, Louada Colley Power, was a homemaker.
The boy was four when his father died. His mother remarried before 1929, when the family, which included an older sister, was living in Clinton, a town of about 6,700 in west-central Oklahoma.
He was nine when his step-father, Edward Venamon, died in 1932.
By the time of the spring 1940 Census, "Frank" or "Li'l Abner," as he was known, and his mother were still in Clinton. She was a beauty shop operator and earned $0 in 1939 for 44 weeks' work, while Frank was a newspaper apprentice and earned $165 for 17 weeks' work. He'd started as a delivery boy, then became a stereotyper and by the time of his enlistment in the Marines was editor of the Clinton Times-Tribune, a weekly publication. Mr. Power graduated from Clinton High in 1940.
He enlisted in June 1941 and was a gunnery private when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor less than six months later.
A memorial service was held in February 1942 at the First Baptist church in Clinton. A quartet of former classmates performed and the pastor titled his sermon "He Shall Rise Again."
There is a cenotaph in his memory at Crest Lawn Memorial Park in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents were Georgia natives.
Another local man, Victor Willard Ogle, also died on the Arizona. He was five years older than Power and graduated from Clinton High in 1935. Even so, it seems likely that the two knew of each other before they ended up on the battleship. The west-central Oklahoma town had a population of just 6,700 in 1940.
The high school held a joint memorial service for them in February 1942. The local American Legion post, Number 41, was renamed in 1946 to include their names alongside that of Luther Hobbs, a Clinton man killed in France in World War I.
Sources: The Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma City; The Clinton (Oklahoma) Daily News; Census; application for military headstone; Census; Marine photo. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
The boy was four when his father died. His mother remarried before 1929, when the family, which included an older sister, was living in Clinton, a town of about 6,700 in west-central Oklahoma.
He was nine when his step-father, Edward Venamon, died in 1932.
By the time of the spring 1940 Census, "Frank" or "Li'l Abner," as he was known, and his mother were still in Clinton. She was a beauty shop operator and earned $0 in 1939 for 44 weeks' work, while Frank was a newspaper apprentice and earned $165 for 17 weeks' work. He'd started as a delivery boy, then became a stereotyper and by the time of his enlistment in the Marines was editor of the Clinton Times-Tribune, a weekly publication. Mr. Power graduated from Clinton High in 1940.
He enlisted in June 1941 and was a gunnery private when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor less than six months later.
A memorial service was held in February 1942 at the First Baptist church in Clinton. A quartet of former classmates performed and the pastor titled his sermon "He Shall Rise Again."
There is a cenotaph in his memory at Crest Lawn Memorial Park in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents were Georgia natives.
Another local man, Victor Willard Ogle, also died on the Arizona. He was five years older than Power and graduated from Clinton High in 1935. Even so, it seems likely that the two knew of each other before they ended up on the battleship. The west-central Oklahoma town had a population of just 6,700 in 1940.
The high school held a joint memorial service for them in February 1942. The local American Legion post, Number 41, was renamed in 1946 to include their names alongside that of Luther Hobbs, a Clinton man killed in France in World War I.
Sources: The Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma City; The Clinton (Oklahoma) Daily News; Census; application for military headstone; Census; Marine photo. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
Abner Franklin Power Jr. was born Oct. 19, 1922, in Oklahoma. His father Frank was a railroad postal clerk and his mother, Louada Colley Power, was a homemaker.
The boy was four when his father died. His mother remarried before 1929, when the family, which included an older sister, was living in Clinton, a town of about 6,700 in west-central Oklahoma.
He was nine when his step-father, Edward Venamon, died in 1932.
By the time of the spring 1940 Census, "Frank" or "Li'l Abner," as he was known, and his mother were still in Clinton. She was a beauty shop operator and earned $0 in 1939 for 44 weeks' work, while Frank was a newspaper apprentice and earned $165 for 17 weeks' work. He'd started as a delivery boy, then became a stereotyper and by the time of his enlistment in the Marines was editor of the Clinton Times-Tribune, a weekly publication. Mr. Power graduated from Clinton High in 1940.
He enlisted in June 1941 and was a gunnery private when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor less than six months later.
A memorial service was held in February 1942 at the First Baptist church in Clinton. A quartet of former classmates performed and the pastor titled his sermon "He Shall Rise Again."
There is a cenotaph in his memory at Crest Lawn Memorial Park in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents were Georgia natives.
Another local man, Victor Willard Ogle, also died on the Arizona. He was five years older than Power and graduated from Clinton High in 1935. Even so, it seems likely that the two knew of each other before they ended up on the battleship. The west-central Oklahoma town had a population of just 6,700 in 1940.
The high school held a joint memorial service for them in February 1942. The local American Legion post, Number 41, was renamed in 1946 to include their names alongside that of Luther Hobbs, a Clinton man killed in France in World War I.
Sources: The Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma City; The Clinton (Oklahoma) Daily News; Census; application for military headstone; Census; Marine photo. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
The boy was four when his father died. His mother remarried before 1929, when the family, which included an older sister, was living in Clinton, a town of about 6,700 in west-central Oklahoma.
He was nine when his step-father, Edward Venamon, died in 1932.
By the time of the spring 1940 Census, "Frank" or "Li'l Abner," as he was known, and his mother were still in Clinton. She was a beauty shop operator and earned $0 in 1939 for 44 weeks' work, while Frank was a newspaper apprentice and earned $165 for 17 weeks' work. He'd started as a delivery boy, then became a stereotyper and by the time of his enlistment in the Marines was editor of the Clinton Times-Tribune, a weekly publication. Mr. Power graduated from Clinton High in 1940.
He enlisted in June 1941 and was a gunnery private when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor less than six months later.
A memorial service was held in February 1942 at the First Baptist church in Clinton. A quartet of former classmates performed and the pastor titled his sermon "He Shall Rise Again."
There is a cenotaph in his memory at Crest Lawn Memorial Park in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents were Georgia natives.
Another local man, Victor Willard Ogle, also died on the Arizona. He was five years older than Power and graduated from Clinton High in 1935. Even so, it seems likely that the two knew of each other before they ended up on the battleship. The west-central Oklahoma town had a population of just 6,700 in 1940.
The high school held a joint memorial service for them in February 1942. The local American Legion post, Number 41, was renamed in 1946 to include their names alongside that of Luther Hobbs, a Clinton man killed in France in World War I.
Sources: The Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma City; The Clinton (Oklahoma) Daily News; Census; application for military headstone; Census; Marine photo. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
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