Individual Details

"Cloyd Braton Sersain, Jr attended elementary school in Seattle, Washington, High School at Ontario, Oregon and Caldwell, Idaho. He enlisted in World War I, US Army in March 1941 and served under Generals Douglas McArthur and Jonathan Wainwright on Corregidore, Philippine Islands until it fell on May 7, 1942. He spent the next three and a half years in Japanese prisons in the Philippines and Japan, most of the time in hospitals suffering from beri beri, dysentary and inhumanities of prison camps. He lost all of his toes from beri beri and was blind most of the time from starvation and malnutrition. It was only through prayer and grace of God he lived through to return home to his parents and family of Caldwell, Idaho, where he died just two weeks later. He was unmarried, a member of the Boone Memorial Presbyterian Church of Caldwell." (Peggy Faulkner Sersain, 1963 as per Lois Temple FGS 359.)

Birth	February 10, 1918	Mills, Harding County, New Mexico
Death	January 13, 1946	Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho

Father	Cloyd Braton Sersain (1891 - 1980)
Mother	Peggy Grace Faulkner (1894 - 1982)
Sibling	Freda Lucile Sersain (1919 - 1922)
Sibling	Gale Faulkner Sersain (1921 - )
Sibling	Winifred Mae Sersain (1923 - )
Sibling	Ruth Esther Sersain (1933 - )