- Rank: Seaman 1st Class
- Serial No: 295-55-97
- Branch: US Navy
- Enlisted: December 16, 1939
- Basic: Norfolk, VA NTS
- Home Town: Harrisburg, AR
- Date Of Birth: April 24, 1916
- Age: 25
- Height: 5'-8"
- Disposition: Unrecovered
- Family DNA on File:
S1c LeRoy George Frank
Two young men from Harrisburg, Arkansas, a town of about 1,200, died on the U.S.S. Arizona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
LeRoy George Frank was born April 24, 1916, at First View, Colorado. His mother, Laura Frances Skinner Frank, was a homemaker and his father, Roy Elton Frank, a farmer. The family moved to Poinsett County — Harrisburg is the county seat — three years later.
The son attended Harrisburg High through 1934. He enlisted in the Navy on Dec. 16, 1939, and was a seaman first class when he died on Dec. 7, 1941.
John Raymond Terrell was born in Harrisburg on June 5, 1920. His mother, Delphia Duke Terrell, was a homemaker, and his father, Harry William Terrell, was a World War I Army veteran, a house carpenter in 1920, a jailer in 1930, and a bridge carpenter in 1940.
The son graduated from Harrisburg High School in 1938. He served in the Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal Depression-era jobs program for young men. The spring 1940 Census said he was seeking work but had not had a job for 92 weeks. The father had worked 40 weeks in 1939 for $750.
Mr. Terrell enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 4, 1940. He started as an apprentice seaman earning $21 a month. He was a fireman second class when he died.
Mr. Frank’s younger brother, Robert, served in the Navy in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.