Charles Reece Jeffers was the son of Houston Jeffers and Verta Lee Richards. he married Bonnie Drinnon at Scott, Virginia in 1942.
Pvt Jeffers was killed in a vehicle accident in Belgium. He had been in service about two years, one year of which he was overseas. He trained in Florida.
Rogersville Review, March 22, 1945
Mrs. Bonnie D. Jeffers, Rogersville, Rt. 2, was notified by the War Department March 4th that her husband, Charles Jeffers, 21, had been killed in a vehicle accident on February 11 in Belgium. Pvt. Jeffers had been in service about two years and overseas one year. He has a brother, Pfc. Paul Jeffers, South Pacific. Other survivors include his wife; father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. Houston Jeffers; one sister, Mabel and four half brothers and sisters.
- Rank: Private
- Date of birth: 18 February 1924
- Date of death: 11 February 1945
- County: Hawkins
- Hometown: Rogersville
- Service Branch: Army/Army Air Forces
- Division/Assignment: 932nd Signal Battalion, Company C
- Theater: Europe
- Conflict: World War II
- Burial/Memorial Location: Providence Cemetery, Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tennessee
- Location In Memorial: Pillar XII, Top Panel
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