Parents: Virginia Cutcher-DeCant & Richard W. DeCant

Siblings: 3 brothers

Hometown: Bono, Ohio

Enlisted: Ohio National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 25 November 1940 - Port Clinton, Ohio

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

        - Cook's School

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - April 9, 1941

        - Death March

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

        - Cabanatuan

Died: 12 July 1942 - malaria & dysentery

            - Approximate time of death -7:00 A.M.

Burial: Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila