Robert Cordell would like the MN PGR to Escort his parents and Honor his father at Wooddale Church and Fort Snelling Minnesota.

Vernon passed in 1995 in Chicago IL was cremated and will be laid to rest at Fort Snelling with his wife Mildred who passed recently in MN. Robert has maintained his fathers Ashes so that they could be laid to rest together at Ft. Snelling

Vernon served in the United States Army and the Air Force in both WWII and Korea

Wooddale Church
6630 Shady Oak Rd
Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55343

Tentative schedule

0815: Stage (In Wooddale Church Parking Lot)at the far end of the parking lot. Go around the building to the south side, as far from  the building as possible)
0900: Flag Line for Lt. Col Vernon Cordell
1030: Service
??------1040: Depart for IKEA/Ft Snelling for SSG Andrew P. Nelson
??-----------1030: Stage Ikea for SSG Andrew P. Nelson
??------1055: Re-Stage Ikea for SSG Andrew P. Nelson
??-----------1100: Depart Ft. Snelling for SSG Andrew P. Nelson
??-----------1130: Ft Snelling SSG Andrew P. Nelson
??-----------1215: Dismissed from SSG Andrew P. Nelson

1130: Break - Stage Bikes for escort for Mrs Mildred and Lt. Col Vernon Cordell
1245: Depart for FT. Snelling for Mrs Mildred and Lt. Col Vernon Cordell

-------1230: Stage at IKEA for Mrs Mildred and Lt. Col Vernon Cordell
-------1300: Depart for FT. Snelling for Mrs Mildred and Lt. Col Vernon Cordell
1330: Interment service at Ft Snelling for Mrs Mildred and Lt. Col Vernon Cordell
1400: Dismissed

RCIC: John Redfield and Indian John

Please Bring 3x5 Flags,
Water and clothing based on the weather conditions

__________________________________________________
Lt. Col. Vernon E. Cordell's Biographical sketch:
Born July 10, 1910 at Cinninnati, Ohio. Father minister Christian
(Disciples of Christ) Church.
1932-Graduated from Ohio State University with a B.Sc. in Business
Administration (and with an ROTC commission as a 2nd Lt. in Infantry)
While in ROTC achieved the rank of Brigadier General in the National Society
of Pershing Rifles.
1935 - April - Went on active duty with the Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC). Asked for assignment to Fort George Wright District to get back
"home". Was send to Fort Douglas, Utah. (Took cadre to site of new dam
under construction near Henderson, Nevada. Now named Hoover Dam. Served in
camps at Kanosh and Kamas, Utah; build camp at Indian Springs, Nevada; with
camps at Moab and Monticello, Utah; Jackson Lake, Wyoming; Heise Hot Springs
and Ashton, Idaho.)
1940 - CCC camps at Placerville (old Hangtown), California; Orland,
California in Sacramento Valley; Devil's Elbow on the Coeur d'alene River
about Wallace, Idaho; and commanded camps on Priest River and Priest Lake
(Camp Blow Down at Luby Bay).
(My wife and two boys lived on Kernan in Spokane)
1941 - August - called to active duty with the Army Air Corps at Randolph
Field, Texas. Assigned as a mess officer to the cadre of the building San
Antonio Aviation Cadet Center. Became Post Mess Officer of this huge base,
commanded a battalion of 700 mess personnel, and operated thirty-eight
dining halls and mess facilities feeding approximately thirty-five thousand
cadets and military personnel.
1945 - Became staff food service and commissary officer of the Flying
Training Command (Randolph Field, Texas)
1946 - Of the Air Training Command (Hq at Shreveport, La.)
1948 - of the Yukon Sector Headquarters, Alaskan Air Command (located at
Fairbanks, Alaska) (Also club officer of Ladd Field additional duty)
1950 of Lackland Air Force Base at San Antonio, Texas (feeding from 32,000
to an emergency 72,000 Airman a day)
1953 - Became Chief of the Food Branch, Hq. United States Air Force (policy
over Air Force food service and subsistence programs) The Pentagon,
Washington, D.C.
1957 - Became Director of Supply and Services at the US air Force
headquarters in Korea (314 Air Division, at Osan) and, for six months, Actg.
Director of Material.
1959 - Chief, Food Service Branch, Air Force Services Office, responsible
for the technical direction of the Air Forces food service.
1960 - Retired from the US air Force (Lt. Col. with 28 years Army and Air
Force service) on July 30th and went to work as Director of Public Health,
Food and Equipment Research on the staff of the National Restaurant
Association. Retired after 15 years with NRA.
1995 - Passed away at age 84, Highland Park, Illinois.


Lt. Colonel Cordell and his wife faced many sacrifices to be on active duty for over 28 years, I am proud that we as Patriot Guard Riders will be there to honor him, and whom even death could not part from his wife, as they are bought together, for eternity, at Fort Snelling National Cemetary.
 

 

Tentative schedule

 

0815:  Muster ( to be determined)

0900:  Flag Line

10:30: Service

11:30: Brunch/Lunch

12:45: Depart for FT. Snelling

13:30: Interment service at Ft Snelling

14:00: Conclusion of Service     

--
John P. Thompson III  "Indian John"
South East Metro Assistant Ride Captain
STG1(sw) US Navy 1981-1997
MN Patriot Guard "Life Member"
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
Iron Indian Riders "Inaugural Member"
St. Paul, Minneapolis, MN, USA