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==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>

 

 

==Career==

==Career==

 

 

At the age of twenty, Terry returned to Shreveport, where less than a year later he obtained his high school diploma through the Hope Street High School for returning veterans but is listed in his obituary as a 1945 Byrd graduate. He worked part-time for the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Department and was made a regular deputy in December 1947, under then Sheriff J. Howell Flournoy. He was a deputy for thirty-four years.<ref name=terryobit/>Having attended various law-enforcement training schools, Terry rose to the rank of [[captain]] and then [[lieutenant]]. From March 2, 1961, until her death, he was married to the former Jane Willis (1926-2009), the daughter of Thomas Morris Willis and the former Pinkie Langlow (1902-1993).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Willis&GSfn=Pinkie&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=13487936&df=all&|title=Pinkie Langlow Willis|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 8, 2016}}</ref> It was the second marriage for each. Like her husband, Jane was an expert marksman and certified rifle instructor.<ref name=janeobit/> Terry had one child from each marriage, the late David Bryan Terry and Shannon Terry Wiley and her husband, Kenneth, of The Woodlands, Texas.<ref name=terryobit/>

At the age of twenty, Terry returned to Shreveport, where less than a year later he obtained his high school diploma through the Hope Street High School for returning veterans but is listed in his obituary as a 1945 Byrd graduate. He worked part-time for the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Department and was made a regular deputy in December 1947, under then Sheriff J. Howell Flournoy. He was a deputy for thirty-four years.<ref name=terryobit/> Having attended various law-enforcement training schools, Terry rose to the rank of [[captain]] and then [[lieutenant]]. From March 2, 1961, until her death, he was married to the former Jane Willis (1926-2009), the daughter of Thomas Morris Willis and the former Pinkie Langlow (1902-1993).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Willis&GSfn=Pinkie&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=13487936&df=all&|title=Pinkie Langlow Willis|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 8, 2016}}</ref> It was the second marriage for each. Like her husband, Jane was an expert marksman and certified rifle instructor.<ref name=janeobit/> Terry had one child from each marriage, the late David Bryan Terry and Shannon Terry Wiley and her husband, Kenneth, of The Woodlands, Texas.<ref name=terryobit/>

Terry won competitions in pistols and shoulder-fired weapons. Under Sheriff Flournoy,  with the subsequent assistance of his wife Jane, Terry supervised the popular Junior Rifle Program to teach marksmanship to the young. He was the departmental firearms training officer in charge of the sheriff's pistol team.<ref name=sheriffsdepartment/> He also taught marksmanship to the [[Boy Scouts of America]].<ref name=terryobit/> In 1961, Terry was invited to display his marksmanship at the former Arkla Village, a re-creation of a 19th-century frontier town located near Emmet, Arkansas, off U.S. Highway 67. The park operated from the late 1950s until the late 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arkansasacer.tripod.com/id67.html|title=Arkla Village|publisher=arkansasacer.tripod.com|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>''The Hope Star'' newspaper, in an article announcing his appearance at the roundup, called Terry "one of the Southwest's outstanding shooting experts with pistol, rifle, and shotgun."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/8181794/|title="Arkla Village Roundup to Feature Crack Shot Capt. Harold M. Terry"|publisher=''The Hope Star''|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>

Terry won competitions in pistols and shoulder-fired weapons. Under Sheriff Flournoy,  with the subsequent assistance of his wife Jane, Terry supervised the popular Junior Rifle Program to teach marksmanship to the young. He was the departmental firearms training officer in charge of the sheriff's pistol team.<ref name=sheriffsdepartment/> He also taught marksmanship to the [[Boy Scouts of America]].<ref name=terryobit/> In 1961, Terry was invited to display his marksmanship at the former Arkla Village, a re-creation of a 19th-century frontier town located near Emmet, Arkansas, off U.S. Highway 67. The park operated from the late 1950s until the late 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arkansasacer.tripod.com/id67.html|title=Arkla Village|publisher=arkansasacer.tripod.com|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>''The Hope Star'' newspaper, in an article announcing his appearance at the roundup, called Terry "one of the Southwest's outstanding shooting experts with pistol, rifle, and shotgun."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/8181794/|title="Arkla Village Roundup to Feature Crack Shot Capt. Harold M. Terry"|publisher=''The Hope Star''|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>

After service as the chief deputy under Flournoy's successor, Sheriff James M. Goslin, Terry was himself elected sheriff in the fall of 1975 in the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary election held in Louisiana. Nine days after taking office as the sheriff, Terry had to inform the family in Shreveport of the assassination in [[Baton Rouge]] of public relations consultant Jim Leslie in the evening of July 9, 1976. Josiah Lee "J. L." Wilson, III (1940-2015),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=josiah-wilson-iii-jl&pid=176981437|title=Josiah Lee "J. L." Wilson, III|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 23, 2015}}</ref> then a reporter for ''The Shreveport Times'' reported that deputies told him that Sheriff Terry's eyes were red from weeping as he left his office to meet with Mrs. Carolyn S. Leslie (born April 30, 1934) and the couple's two sons, D. Scott Leslie (born November 11, 1968) and Mickey Leslie. Terry never commented on how the Leslies handled the tragedy to protect their privacy.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NvpN1t9TMrgC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=Sheriff+Harold+Terry+of+Caddo+Parish&source=bl&ots=FLpFpz8sBI&sig=CiYKwwaCvjQP3tfXSYdiOVQqKZc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aaccVJbbIpSgyATF5oFg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Sheriff%20Harold%20Terry%20of%20Caddo%20Parish&f=false|title=The Commissioner: A True Story of Deceit, Dishonor, and Death|author=Bill Keith|publisher=Pelican Publishing Company|location=Gretna, Louisiana|date=2009|pages=28|isbn=978-1-58980-655-9|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref>  

After service as the chief deputy under Flournoy's successor, Sheriff James M. Goslin, Terry was himself elected sheriff in the fall of 1975 in the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary election held in Louisiana. Nine days after taking office as the sheriff, Terry had to inform the family in Shreveport of the assassination in [[Baton Rouge]] of public relations consultant Jim Leslie in the evening of July 9, 1976. Josiah Lee "J. L." Wilson, III (1940-2015),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=josiah-wilson-iii-jl&pid=176981437|title=Josiah Lee "J. L." Wilson, III|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 23, 2015}}</ref> then a reporter for ''The Shreveport Times'' reported that deputies told him that Sheriff Terry's eyes were red from weeping as he left his office to meet with Mrs. Carolyn S. Leslie (born April 30, 1934) and the couple's two sons, D. Scott Leslie (born November 11, 1968) and Mickey Leslie. Terry never commented on how the Leslies handled the tragedy to protect their privacy.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NvpN1t9TMrgC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=Sheriff+Harold+Terry+of+Caddo+Parish&source=bl&ots=FLpFpz8sBI&sig=CiYKwwaCvjQP3tfXSYdiOVQqKZc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aaccVJbbIpSgyATF5oFg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Sheriff%20Harold%20Terry%20of%20Caddo%20Parish&f=false|title=The Commissioner: A True Story of Deceit, Dishonor, and Death|author=Bill Keith|publisher=Pelican Publishing Company|location=Gretna, Louisiana|date=2009|pages=28|isbn=978-1-58980-655-9|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref>  

Terry and George W. D'Artois, with whom Leslie had quarreled regarding payment of D'Artois' 1974 campaign bills in the public safety commissioner's race that year, had been deputies together prior to 1962 under then Sheriff Flournoy.<ref>Alisa Stingley (February 28, 2009). "Fateful arrest here changed course of two lives," ''The Shreveport Times,'' Retrieved September 19, 2014.</ref>In a book on the Leslie murder, ''Badge of Dishonor: A True Story of Police Racism, Brutality, and Murder in a Deep South City,'' the author Jere Turner Joiner (born  1936), a former Shreveport city police officer residing in [[Colorado Springs]], [[Colorado]], pictures Harold Terry, then chief deputy in 1963 with a [[Thompson submachine gun]] during what Joiner calls "a planned but uneventful racial disturbance in Shreveport." In the photograph, Commissioner D'Artois is standing beside Terry.<ref>Jere Joiner, ''Badge of Dishonor: A True Story of Police Racism, Brutality, and Murder in a Deep South City'' (Morris Publishing, 2013),  ISBN=978-0989278300. Retrieved September 26, 2014.</ref>

Terry and George W. D'Artois, with whom Leslie had quarreled regarding payment of D'Artois' 1974 campaign bills in the public safety commissioner's race that year, had been deputies together prior to 1962 under then Sheriff Flournoy.<ref>Alisa Stingley (February 28, 2009). "Fateful arrest here changed course of two lives," ''The Shreveport Times,'' Retrieved September 19, 2014.</ref> In a book on the Leslie murder, ''Badge of Dishonor: A True Story of Police Racism, Brutality, and Murder in a Deep South City,'' the author Jere Turner Joiner (born  1936), a former Shreveport city police officer residing in [[Colorado Springs]], [[Colorado]], pictures Harold Terry, then chief deputy in 1963 with a [[Thompson submachine gun]] during what Joiner calls "a planned but uneventful racial disturbance in Shreveport." In the photograph, Commissioner D'Artois is standing beside Terry.<ref>Jere Joiner, ''Badge of Dishonor: A True Story of Police Racism, Brutality, and Murder in a Deep South City'' (Morris Publishing, 2013),  ISBN=978-0989278300. Retrieved September 26, 2014.</ref>

Under Terry, the sheriff's department faced severe budget constraints, with spending reductions in operations for both  [[narcotics]] and criminal intelligence. About half of the deputies, then numbering 150, left their jobs either through retirements or resignations. To enhance the economic stability of the department, Terry instituted a bid system for making purchases.<ref name=sheriffsdepartment>{{cite web|url=http://www.caddohistory.com/caddo_sheriff_template_page_3.html|title=Growth and Expansion of the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office|author=[[Eric Brock]]|publisher=caddohistory.com|accessdate=September 19, 2014}}</ref> As the department purchasing agent, Terry named Clifton G. "Windy" Vaughan (1918-2008), a native of [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]]. Earlier, Vaughan had worked in special services and helped to create and train a bomb disposal unit that received national attention.<ref>"Clifton G. "Windy" Vaughan (October 19, 1918 &ndash; October 6, 2008), ''The Shreveport Times,'' October 10, 2008. Retrieved October 14, 2014.</ref>

Under Terry, the sheriff's department faced severe budget constraints, with spending reductions in operations for both  [[narcotics]] and criminal intelligence. About half of the deputies, then numbering 150, left their jobs either through retirements or resignations. To enhance the economic stability of the department, Terry instituted a bid system for making purchases.<ref name=sheriffsdepartment>{{cite web|url=http://www.caddohistory.com/caddo_sheriff_template_page_3.html|title=Growth and Expansion of the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office|author=[[Eric Brock]]|publisher=caddohistory.com|accessdate=September 19, 2014}}</ref> As the department purchasing agent, Terry named Clifton G. "Windy" Vaughan (1918-2008), a native of [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]]. Earlier, Vaughan had worked in special services and helped to create and train a bomb disposal unit that received national attention.<ref>"Clifton G. "Windy" Vaughan (October 19, 1918 &ndash; October 6, 2008), ''The Shreveport Times,'' October 10, 2008. Retrieved October 14, 2014.</ref>

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/>

Jane Terry had two children from a previous marriage, Sharon Jenkinson Reed (born 1945) and husband, Thomas Richard Reed (born July 1941), of Shreveport, and Dr. Stephen George Jenkinson (born 1947) and wife, former educator Suzie Blanton Jenkinson (born 1950), of [[San Antonio]], Texas.<ref name=janeobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33763343|title=Jane Willis Terry (1926-2009)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 19, 2014}}</ref><ref name=terryobit/> Dr. Jenkinson was a member of the first graduating class at the LSU Health Sciences Center in his native Shreveport and thereafter a faculty member and researcher of pulmonary diseases at the medical school<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15140coll23/id/3848|title=Jenkinson: A Doctor by Profession and Still a Shreveporter by Choice|publisher=''[[Shreveport Journal]]''|author=Beth Smith|date=June 9, 1981|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref> before he relocated to San Antonio, where he is an internist and pulmonologist. The Jenkinsons had one child, Stephanie Suzanne Jenkinson  (1980-2010), Sheriff Terry's step-granddaughter, a medical doctor who died at the age of twenty-nine and is interred at Mission Burial Park North in San Antonio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Jenkinson&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=46&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=63401626&df=all&|title=Dr. Stephanie Suzanne Jenkinson|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref>

Jane Terry had two children from a previous marriage, Sharon Jenkinson Reed (born 1945) and husband, Thomas Richard Reed (born July 1941), of Shreveport, and Dr. Stephen George Jenkinson (born 1947) and wife, former educator Suzie Blanton Jenkinson (born 1950), of [[San Antonio]], Texas.<ref name=terryobit/><ref name=janeobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33763343|title=Jane Willis Terry (1926-2009)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 19, 2014}}</ref> Dr. Jenkinson was a member of the first graduating class at the LSU Health Sciences Center in his native Shreveport and thereafter a faculty member and researcher of pulmonary diseases at the medical school<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15140coll23/id/3848|title=Jenkinson: A Doctor by Profession and Still a Shreveporter by Choice|publisher=''[[Shreveport Journal]]''|author=Beth Smith|date=June 9, 1981|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref> before he relocated to San Antonio, where he is an internist and pulmonologist. The Jenkinsons had one child, Stephanie Suzanne Jenkinson  (1980-2010), Sheriff Terry's step-granddaughter, a medical doctor who died at the age of twenty-nine and is interred at Mission Burial Park North in San Antonio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Jenkinson&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=46&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=63401626&df=all&|title=Dr. Stephanie Suzanne Jenkinson|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref>

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