Jackson charles pharris biography channel

Jackson Charles Pharris was born June 26, 1912 in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

Following his Navy retirement, the Pharris family settled in Rolling Hills Estates in Los Angeles County.  Pharris attended Long Beach City College and USC. On June 9, 1956 he graduated from USC with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce.

On October 16, 1966, while attending a Medal of Honor activity, Pharris collapsed and was taken to the Veterans Administration  Hospital in Los Angeles where he died the next day of a heart attack. He is buried in Section 13, Grave 16281, at Arlington National Cemetery.

After his death, and the death of his wife, his Medal of Honor took a strange route where it was taken by the State of California as unclaimed property.  When the family realized that his war medals were missing they had to mount an all out campaign to have the medals returned to the family in 2002.

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