Lawrence Wilcox was a young man who died 70 years ago, 6,000 miles from home. It was in the earliest days of the Korean War, called often now the “Forgotten War."
Lawrence A. Wilcox (1932 - 1950) was the youngest of the dozen children of Addie and Ernest Wilcox. The ones older than him were Herald, Richard, Lyle, Robert, Ruth, Doris, Jean, Dorothy, Lourain, Lucille and David. His mother, Addie, graduated from Table Rock in 1911. Some of her children went to Table rock, too. Lawrence and his brother Lyle appear in a picture of the basketball team taken in the Fall of 1947. Lyle graduated at the end of that school year, the last of four siblings to graduate from Table Rock. The family then moved to a farm north of Steinauer, near the Wenzl families' farms.
Some Steinauer memories: Lawrence was well known to Jim and Don Wenzl of Steinauer as a bit of a wild and fun-loving kid. His transport was his horse from home to school/town. He took a shine to Shirley Steiner Morehead who also rode a horse from her home SW of Steinauer for high school. Both boarded their horses during the school day at the barn of Norbert Steinauer.
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