Private Ivan Eugene Overstreet was the son of Estel Claude Overstreet and Minerva Asberene Kennedy.
Place of death: St-Lo, France
Buried at Clarkrange Cemetery, Clarkrange, TN
The Upper Cumberland Times, March 4, 1948
Full military honors were accorded to Sgt. Eugene Overstreet, late of Clarkrange by the Jamestown VFW Post no. 5017 and the veterans of Clarkrange. He was buried Saturday, February 21st at the Clarkrange Cemetery.
Sgt. Overstreet was killed July 24, 1944 while fighting for his country in the invasion of France. His body was returned from Europe by request of his parents under military escort of T/Sgt Robert A. McCallister.
- Rank: Private
- Date of birth: 6 October 1922
- Date of death: 24 July 1944
- County: Fentress
- Hometown: Clarkrange
- Service Branch: Army/Army Air Forces
- Division/Assignment: 320th Infantry Regiment, Company K
- Theater: Europe
- Conflict: World War II
- Battles: St-Lo, France
- Awards: Purple Heart
- Burial/Memorial Location: Clarkrange Cemetery, Clarkrange, TN
- Location In Memorial: Pillar IX, Top Panel
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