+-- Thomas Hinshaw
                                                         |    1841-1908 
                             +-- William David Hinshaw --+
                             |    1882-1954              |
                             |                           +-- Eleanor McKinney
                             |                                1849-1896 
Winston Frederick Hinshaw ---+
B: 1923                      |                           +-- James Jasper Barker
D: 2010                      |                           |
                             +-- Annie Barker -----------+
                                  1886-1952              |
                                                         +-- Ann Eliza Veach
M: Tillie Marie Pemberton
   +-- Nita Ann Hinshaw,  1950-     
   +-- Penny Lynn Hinshaw,  1952-2011 

Winston Frederick Hinshaw     [ID 10651]

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    (Winston Frederick Hinshaw)^a,b,c,d,e    (Short Hinshaw)^f    (Shorty Hinshaw)^d    (W.F. Henshaw)^g

Born Oct 11 1923, Whitt, Parker County, Texas.^f,h,i,b

During World War II Winston served in the Pacific Theater, assigned Nov 1944 to the transport U.S.S. Highlands APA-119; he served in the landing crew for the invasion of Iowo Jima, Tsuken Shima, Okinawa and on to Tokyo Bay.    Winston watched the Japanese surrender signing aboard the U.S.S. Missouri on Sep 2 1945.^c

He married Tillie Marie Pemberton, 1947.^i,j,g    Tillie was born Dec 25 1930.^h

In 1997 W.F. was living in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas.^e,k    Since 2004 W.F. has been living near DeLeon, Comanche County, Texas.^l

Winston Frederick Hinshaw died Mar 22 2010, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas; age 86; buried Clark Cemetery, Weatherford, Parker County, Texas.^f

Winston's obituary was published in the "Star-Telegram" on March 25, 2010:^f

Winston F. "Short" Hinshaw of Spring Branch passed away at age 86 on Monday, March 22, 2010, at a hospital in San Antonio. Funeral: 2 p.m. Friday at Cotten-Bratton Funeral Chapel in Weatherford with his nephew, Michael Howard, officiating.    Interment: Clark Cemetery.    Visitation: 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Cotten-Bratton. Memorials: The family request that memorials may be sent to Cotten-Bratton Funeral Chapel, 115 College, Weatherford, Texas 76086. Winston was born Oct. 11, 1923, in Whitt.    He was the son of William D. Hinshaw and Annie Barker Hinshaw.    He graduated from Whitt High School and joined the U.S. Navy in April 22, 1944, and was honorably discharged May 17, 1946.    He served in the Pacific theater aboard the Navy ship USS Highlander from Iwo Jima to the signing of the peace treaty in Tokyo.    He was an operations manager for a fence construction company.    After retirement he built custom equine barns. He was predeceased in death by his parents; brothers, Jim, Lawrence and David Hinshaw; and sisters, Ozella Barham and Ella Walker. Survivors: His wife of 62 years, Tillie Pemberton Hinshaw of Spring Branch; sister, Dorthy Hinshaw Schindler; daughter, Nita Ann Harrell and husband, Richard G. Harrell; daughter, Penny Lynn Tressler and husband, Dr. Samuel D. Tressler III; grandchildren, Ryan Buck Harrell and his wife, Rachel Benke Harrell, Rustin Dean Harrell and his wife, Clarissa Ann Harrell, Nikolaus Andrew Tressler and wife, Anne Elizabeth Tressler, and Gretchen Elizabeth Tressler and Michael Allen Louden; and great-grandchildren, Charlotte Marie Tressler and Mackenzie Alexandra Harrell.

Photo: Winston F. Hinshaw World War II ^c

SOURCES

(a) Contribution from Audrey Lillard Schafer.

(b) 1930 census, Precinct 4, Parker County, Texas; roll T626-2383, ED 14, page 6A, line #26, dwelling #118, family #119.

(c) National World War II Memorial:
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=registry.asp&subpage=search.

(d) Obituary of Ellen Nora Hinshaw:
"The Fort Worth Star-Telegram", August 20, 1995, pg 26-27;
(UMI Obituaries 1990-1997. Orem, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1998).

(e) Obituary of Cora O. (Hinshaw) Barham.

(f) http://www.findagrave.com.

(g) Obituary of Charles Frank Schindler:
"The Fort Worth Star-Telegram", May 17, 1999;
(UMI Obituaries 1990-1999. Orem, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1999).

(h) U.S. Public Records Index; http://www.ancestry.com.

(i) RootsWeb WorldConnect data by Jerald L. Hemphill ().

(j) Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997; http://www.ancestry.com.

(k) U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946; http://www.ancestry.com.

(l) Contribution from Sam Tressler III.

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