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Commander:                         Forrest Beadle

Adjutant:                                 Lora Clay

1st Vice President:                 Bill Mulholland

2nd VicePresident:                 Bill McNichols

Finance Officer:                    Neil Sizemore

JAG Officer:                           Scott Hickey

Service Officer:                     Paul Bastaich

Historian:                                Walter Herron

Chaplain:                                 Wayne Libscomb

Sargeant-at-Arms:                Mike Williamson

Executive Committee

  • Tom Hayford

  • Chad Finholt

  • Ray Stephens

  • Mike Romanofski

  • Kenny Horn

  • Spencer Kimball

  • John Pico

  • Roger White

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Denton’s American Legion Post 71 was created on Aug. 1, 1920, and named for Arthur Othello McNitzky, the first resident of Denton, Texas to be killed in WWI. ---- He was buried in the McNitzky family plot in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, and shares a headstone with his father ---- In addition to his service ribbons and Purple Heart, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government. He was 28 years old.
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