The following Marion citizens gave their lives in defense of this country in World War II (1941-1946):

Herman L. Alexander, Carl Edward Allen, Alfred Henry Anderson, Carl Edmond Avis, R. Dewey Banker, Freeman Vernell Beasley, Jewell Guy Bethel, Jr., Charles Blythe, Irvin A. Boester, Charles Branche, Jr., William A. Broeking, Harvey Bryn, Owen W. Burgess, Denny Butler, James Vollie Calvin, Clinton C. Cavitt, Gordon Collins, Oliver Cooper, Robert C Cox, Jack Creal, Charles T. Davis,  John Davis, Loren L. Davis, Jack Waldo Dempsey, William Curtis Desmond, George Lawrence Dial, Marion Lee Doughty, Jack Wesley Fallon, Robert E. Fleming, Earl Lee Fosse, Robert Crain Fox, Herbert Lehman Garrison, Charles Edward Gibbs, Virgil L. Gower, Mills Leslie Groves, Carl E. Hailey, Ralph Earl Helms, William Hill, Charles William Holland, Dennis L. Jones, Stephen Kennedy, Dean LaHue, Arlie Ray Lannom, Gene Ledbetter, William Travis Lewis, Carl Malone, Homer McDaniel, Floyd McQuown, Harold Metcalf, Norvel C. Miller, Charles Herbert Miner, Lloyd Mosley, Carl Norris, Peter Sampson Norris, William Henry North, Charles P. Pacatte, William Leslie Phillips, Howard M. Pierce, J.R. Polk, Edward Ragsdale, William Fanklin Roberts, Charles Rotolo, Ernest Rushing, Jack Schafale, Robert L. Schakelford, Norman Short, Allen Graham Shreve, Ralph Carl Stokes, Doyle E. Swilley, George Edward Thomas, Albert L. Varner, Robert Lee Wanless, Howard W. Wicks, Arthur Wilkey, Wayne Wilson, Adolph Zoeller, Jr.

(This list was compiled by David C. Roger for the memorial on the square in 1972)