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SSG Anissa Shero
USAF - 31 years old
On June 12 we remember and honor someone that has no living immediate family that we can find to remember her. Today we remember SSG Anissa Shero US Air Force.
SSG Shero was born Oct 5th 1970 in Grafton WV and died in Afghanistan June 12th 2002. She was a load master on a MC-130H Combat Talon that crashed. She was the 1st female Air Force service member to die in the theater.
Her grandfather fought in the Army at the Battle of The Bulge in WW2, Her father lost 2 legs in Vietnam. It was said by family members that military service was an easy choice. She enlisted in the USAF in 1991. The 31-year-old West Virginia native was a 10-year Air Force veteran who had been awarded the Air Medal in 1996 and the Air Force Commendation Medal, along with two Air Force Achievement Medals during 2001. She had married Staff Sgt. Nathan Shero, a fellow air commando, on Sept. 1, 2001 less than one year before her death.
Anissa was raised part time by her grandmother Edith Pauline Kenney who passed in 2019. Her mother Tammy Moats died of cancer in 1995. Clyde Hayward Shuttleworth, her father, status unknown.
SSG Shero was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, Section 66 Site 6990.
There are no known photographs of Anissa other than the low resolution USAF picture from basic training to honor her with.
Since there are so few to remember this fallen WV service member, we at WV Gold Star Mothers Bridge Ride have decided to honor her memory by adding her event lanyard to the shadowbox at The Tractor Bar. (and the others fallen without family connections or Gold Star affiliation)
Let us remember this fallen WV service member and....
Say Her Name.
PFC Ernest Harold Sutphin
US ARMY - 21 years old
On March 18 we honor and remember Pfc. Ernest Harold Sutphin, 21, US Army 21, Parkersburg, W.Va.; and his mother Jackie Sutphin Piggott of Greensboro NC.
PFC Sutphin grew up in Parkersburg and graduated from Parkersburg High School in 2001. His family later relocated to North Carolina, where he planned to live after getting out of the service. Sutphin served with the 25th Infantry Division, based in Hawaii. He was born Dec 21 1982, in Greensboro NC, his parents’ hometown.
He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division (Light), Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; died March 18 2004 in Landstuhl, Germany, from injuries sustained March 11 2004 in a vehicle incident involving a roadside bomb in Kirkuk, Iraq.
Pfc. Sutphin was buried with a Bronze Star medal pinned to his dress uniform in Lakeview Memorial Park Greensboro North Carolina.
Let us always remember him, his family, and….
Say His Name
