This information is offered FREE and taken from http://www.okgenweb.net/~okcaddo/ If you have arrived here using a pay site please know that this information has been donated by volunteers in a joint effort to provide FREE genealogy material online. ================================================ Caddo County Oklahoma Military - Korea submitted by C.C.G.S. volunteer email ccgs73005@yahoo.com ************************************************ MEMORIAL RITES TO BE HELD FOR LUKE TAINPEAH A memorial service for Luke Tainpeah will be held Friday at the Saddle Mountain Indian Mission. Tainpeah was killed about a year ago in Korea. He was the first Kiowa Indian boy killed. The son of Guy Tainpeah, he was an outstanding boxer while attending Cameron college, Lawton. Daniel W. Fielder, post chaplain at Fort Sill, will be principal speaker, Addison Thompson, choir director at Fort Sill Indian school will direct the music. Friends and classmates of Tainpeah are invited to share in the service. In memory of his son, Guy Tainpeah gave the church a flag pole to be erected on the grounds.