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About Clarence Odell Lyall
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Clarence Odell “Clancy” Lyall (October 14, 1925 – March 19, 2012) served with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II. This unit would be popularized in the mini-series Band of Brothers based on the book by the same name.
Clancy later served in the 82nd Airborne Division in post-war Germany and in 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team[1] – The Rakkasans – in the Korean War.[1][2] He also served in Indochina.
Clancy Lyall was born in Orange, Texas.[3] His father, Arthur Edward Lyall, who worked on ships transporting oil from the United States to Scotland, was a Scot.[4] His mother, Beulah,[3] was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian from Oklahoma. His father met his mother on a trip to the US after wanting to see the native peoples in Oklahoma. They married and Beulah eventually moved to Orange Texas to set up a farm. Clancy was raised for a time with his maternal Grandfather on the reservation while the farm was being built. Once the farm was completed Clancy attended a one-room school and worked on his parents' 120 acre farm in Orange until they moved to Pennsylvania in 1939.[4] In the summers he would also cross the Sabine river to work in Louisiana, earning some money by picking Spanish moss for use as mattress batting.
After leaving the service, Clancy initially worked for a carpet firm.[14] He moved to Florida where he worked for Carvel Ice Cream as a marketing director.[2] He remarried in 1971. He eventually moved to Lexington Park, Maryland. Clancy had six children, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild.[3]
He continued to be very active in the service to his community and to fellow veterans. Among numerous positions he held, he was VFW Commander Post 2632, American Legion Vice Commander, Lions Club President, President of Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, and member of Southern Maryland Veterans Advisory Board.[1][3]
In 2005, Clancy was recognized as Native American by a chief of the Cherokee Nation and given the name "Silver Eagle."[20]
In 2008, he traveled to Kuwait with several other fellow E/506 veterans in coordination with Valor Studios and the USO to show their appreciation for the US troops serving there.[21]
He died in the morning of March 19, 2012, at age 86 at St. Mary's Hospital in Leonardtown, Maryland.[3] He was buried at Evergreen Memorial Gardens in Great Mills, Maryland on March 24, 2012.[22]
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Clarence Odell Lyall's Timeline
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October 14, 1925
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Orange, Orange County, Texas, United States
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1949
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March 24, 1953
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Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States
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March 19, 2012
Age 86
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St. Mary's Hospital, Leonardtown, St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States
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March 24, 2012
Age 86
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Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Great Mills, St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States
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