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Staff Sergeant Junior James Spurrier (World War II) is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/mountainhome.asp. He received the Medal of Honor while serving in the U.S. Army, Company G, 134th Infantry, 35th Infantry Division, for actions in northeastern France at Achain, November 13, 1944. Spurrier was born on December 14, 1922, in the Castlewood area of Russell County, western Virginia to a farmer and Norfolk and Western Railway locomotive fireman and engineer James I. Spurrier and his wife Ruby, one of five children. The family suffered due to the Great Depression, moving frequently, and ended up in Bluefield, West Virginia, where the younger Spurrier found work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp.  His mother died in the summer of 1940, and he decided to enlist in the Army.  He died in 1984.
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