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{{Infobox person
|name=Harold Monroe Terry
|birth_date=September 10, 1925
|birth_place=[[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]
|death_date=February 5, 2016
|death_place=Shreveport, Louisiana
|spouse=(1) Missing<br>
(2) Jane Willis Terry (married 1961-2009, her death)
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]}}
'''Harold Monroe Terry''' (September 10, 1925 – February 5, 2016)<ref name=terryobit>{{cite web|url=
'''Harold Monroe Terry''' (September 10, 1925 – February 5, 2016)<ref name=terryobit>{{cite web|url=
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=harold-terry&pid=177626550&fhid=10218
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=harold-terry&pid=177626550&fhid=10218
<blockquote>
<blockquote>
'''Anyone who knew Harold Terry as sheriff will attest that guns were his great passion''' - Caddo Parish Sheriff's Department website.</blockquote/>
'''Anyone who knew Harold Terry as sheriff will attest that guns were his great passion''' - Caddo Parish Sheriff's Department website.</blockquote/>
==Background==
==Background==
Terry was one of three sons of Edwin Bryant Terry and the former Lola DeSpain, later Lola Serex,<ref name=terryobit/> who were married in 1916 in Union County in south [[Arkansas]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/union/vitals/marriages/unmarr-t.txt|title=Union County, Arkansas, Marriages: "T"|publisher=usgwarchives.net|accessdate=September 19, 2014}}</ref> and divorced c. 1928, when Harold was two years of age. Living with his mother in Shreveport, he worked at odd jobs during boyhood and hunted squirrel and rabbit for food. He was injured when a car struck his [[bicycle]] while he was working as a delivery boy. He was rushed to emergency surgery at Highland Hospital, at which doctors saved his damaged arm. He attended C. E. Byrd High School in Shreveport but dropped out before graduation to enroll in welding school. He worked briefly as a welder at a plant near Karnack in east [[Texas]], but at seventeen, his mother signed in 1943 for him to enter the [[United States Marine Corps]]<ref name=ktbs>{{cite web|url=http://www.ktbs.com/story/31154799/former-caddo-parish-sheriff-harold-terry-has-died|title=Former Caddo Parish sheriff Harold Terry has died|publisher=KTBS-TV|date=February 5, 2016|accessdate=February 8, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2016/02/06/former-caddo-sheriff-wwii-veteran-dies/79931928/|title=Former Caddo sheriff, WWII veteran dies|author=Zach Beaird|date=February 6, 2016|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=February 9, 2016}}</ref> boot camp in [[San Diego]], [[California]]. Assigned as a private first class rifleman to Company C, First Division, 22nd Marines,<ref name=terryobit/> he was dispatched to [[Guadalcanal]] after the famous battle had been fought and then to the second battle of [[Guam]], at which he participated in the recapture of that island. He recalled how the [[Allies|Allied]] forces overpowered the small island. He then carried a Browning automatic rifle into the [[Battle of Okinawa]]. In forty days of what he remembered as "ferocious" fighting, Terry was the sole survivor of his platoon.<ref name=ktbs/> In an oral history interview with the R. W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, he recalled that the [[Japan]]ese soldiers "were willing to die, and we [Allies] wanted to live." With shell shock, which he called "combat fatigue," Terry was sent to recover in Norman, [[Oklahoma]], and then discharged in [[New Orleans]] on November 30, 1945. <ref name=oralhistory>{{cite web|url=http://www.oralhistory.ws/tpl/index3.php?view=profile&client=5031|title=Harold M. Terry|publisher=oralhistory.ws|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref>
Terry was one of three sons of Edwin Bryant Terry and the former Lola DeSpain, later Lola Serex,<ref name=terryobit/> who were married in 1916 in Union County in south [[Arkansas]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/union/vitals/marriages/unmarr-t.txt|title=Union County, Arkansas, Marriages: "T"|publisher=usgwarchives.net|accessdate=September 19, 2014}}</ref> and divorced c. 1928, when Harold was two years of age. Living with his mother in Shreveport, he worked at odd jobs during boyhood and hunted squirrel and rabbit for food. He was injured when a car struck his [[bicycle]] while he was working as a delivery boy. He was rushed to emergency surgery at Highland Hospital, at which doctors saved his damaged arm. He attended C. E. Byrd High School in Shreveport but dropped out before graduation to enroll in welding school. He worked briefly as a welder at a plant near Karnack in east [[Texas]], but at seventeen, his mother signed in 1943 for him to enter the [[United States Marine Corps]]<ref name=ktbs>{{cite web|url=http://www.ktbs.com/story/31154799/former-caddo-parish-sheriff-harold-terry-has-died|title=Former Caddo Parish sheriff Harold Terry has died|publisher=KTBS-TV|date=February 5, 2016|accessdate=February 8, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2016/02/06/former-caddo-sheriff-wwii-veteran-dies/79931928/|title=Former Caddo sheriff, WWII veteran dies|author=Zach Beaird|date=February 6, 2016|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=February 9, 2016}}</ref> boot camp in [[San Diego]], [[California]]. Assigned as a private first class rifleman to Company C, First Division, 22nd Marines,<ref name=terryobit/> he was dispatched to [[Guadalcanal]] after the famous battle had been fought and then to the second battle of [[Guam]], at which he participated in the recapture of that island. He recalled how the [[Allies|Allied]] forces overpowered the small island. He then carried a Browning automatic rifle into the [[Battle of Okinawa]]. In forty days of what he remembered as "ferocious" fighting, Terry was the sole survivor of his platoon.<ref name=ktbs/> In an oral history interview with the R. W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, he recalled that the [[Japan]]ese soldiers "were willing to die, and we [Allies] wanted to live." With shell shock, which he called "combat fatigue," Terry was sent to recover in Norman, [[Oklahoma]], and then discharged in [[New Orleans]] on November 30, 1945. <ref name=oralhistory>{{cite web|url=http://www.oralhistory.ws/tpl/index3.php?view=profile&client=5031|title=Harold M. Terry|publisher=oralhistory.ws|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref>
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==Death==
==Death==
Harold Terry died in Shreveport at the age of ninety. Services were held at the [[Roman Catholic]] St. John Berchmans Cathedral. Harold and Jane Terry are interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=terryobit/>
Harold Terry died in Shreveport at the age of ninety. Services were held at the [[Roman Catholic]] St. John Berchmans Cathedral. Harold and Jane Terry are interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=terryobit/>