PATTON, III George Smith Patton

1885 - 1945  (60 years)

• Name	PATTON, George Smith Patton
  Prefix	III
  Gender	Male
  Born	11 Nov 1885	San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California
  Biography	1885-1945	San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California
  	Official George S. Patton web site http://www.generalpatton.com/
  Died	21 Dec 1945	Heidelberg, Germany   [1]
  Buried	Abt. 23 Dec 1945	Hamm, Luxembourg
  Person ID	I21275	1. Schwald - WA-NY-OR-TX
  Last Modified	18 Jul 2015

  
  

  Father	PATTON, George Smith II,   b. 30 Sep 1856, Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia ,   d. 10 Jun 1927, San Marino, Los Angeles, California  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	WILSON, Ruth,   b. 28 Apr 1861, Los Angeles County, California ,   d. 6 Oct 1928, San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California  (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F6959	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 11 Nov 1885 - San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California Biography - Official George S. Patton web site http://www.generalpatton.com/ - 1885-1945 - San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California Died - 21 Dec 1945 - Heidelberg, Germany Buried - Abt. 23 Dec 1945 - Hamm, Luxembourg  = Link to Google Earth
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  [S254] Archives - www Wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton#Death. DEATH & BURIAL At 11:45 on December 9 - involved in an automobile accident. He began bleeding from a gash to the head and complained to Gay and Woodring that he was paralyzed and was having trouble breathing. Taken to a hospital in Heidelberg, Patton was discovered to have a compression fracture and dislocation of the cervical third and fourth vertebrae, resulting in a broken neck and cervical spinal cord injury that rendered him paralyzed from the neck down. He died in his sleep of pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure at about 18:00 on December 21, 1945. BURIAL Patton was buried at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Hamm, Luxembourg, alongside wartime casualties of the Third Army, per his request to "be buried with my men."