FLOWERS, SHELBY A., JR.

Word has been received by relatives here of the death in action of Shelby Alvin Flowers, Jr., on April 16 [1945] on Okinawa, in the Southwest Pacific, where he was a Marine Raider.

He was son of Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Flowers, Vicksburg, Miss. and Mrs. A. J. Criswell, West Monroe, is an aunt. His grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Flowers, Vicksburg, Miss.