Doyle was born in 1943 to Rupert Reeves and Etta Joyner.[1] He served as a L Cpl in the US Marine Corps during Vietnam, and lost his life in a vehicle crash there in 1967.[2] When he passed away, he was buried in the Garden of the Last Supper, Tallahassee Memory Gardens, Tallahassee, Florida, next to his parents.[3]
Sources
"Florida State Census, 1945," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNXR-2XG : accessed 19 May 2015), Doyle Reeves, Tallahassee, Leon, Florida; citing line 22, State Archives, Tallahassee; FHL microfilm 2,425,196.
"United States Casualties of the Vietnam War, 1956-1998," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXZW-6VP : accessed 19 May 2015), Doyle Wells Reeves, NARA NAID 306742, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
"Find A Grave Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK3-9DGM : accessed 19 May 2015), Doyle Wells Reeves, 1967; Burial, Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States of America, Memory Gardens Cemetery; citing record ID 33891574, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Information recorded by Carolyn Martin from grave marker at Garden of the Last Supper in Tallahassee Memory Gardens (cemetery), Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA.
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