I have removed Corporal Louis F. Deats Jr. from Brown County's original Honor Roll simply because we have not found any evidence that he had connection to Brown County in 1940-1943 other than he probably trained some at Camp Bowie. His hometown of Christoval, Tom Green County, Texas with parents. He is listed as a casualty on the Tom Green County list, and he is not listed on the original WWII memorial at Coggin Park, Brownwood, Texas.

Louis Frank Deats, Jr. born 1 September 1919 Christoval, Tom Green County, Texas to Hattie Lassetter (b. 1890 Coleman County, Texas - d. 1983 Sterling County, Texas) Age 29 and Louis Frank Deats (b. 1885 Texas - d. 1968 Christoval, Texas) Age 34.

1920 Census age 4m living in Tom Green County, Texas with parents and two sisters. 1930 Census age 10 living in Tom Green County, Texas with parents and two sisters. 1935 living in Tom Green County, Texas. 1940 Census Age 20 living in Christoval, Tom Green County, Texas with parents, operating a filling station. Registered for the draft at San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas on 16 October 1940 while living and working in Christoval and listed his father of Christoval as his next of kin contact. Louis F. Deats Jr. asn-20813180 a single white male born Texas in 1919 residing in Tom Green County, Texas workin at a filling station with four years of high school education enlisted from the National Guard into the US Army Field Artillery as a private at Abilene, Texas on 25 November 1940.

Corporal Louis F. Deats Jr. 20813180 US Army Headquarters Battery 131st Field Artillery Regiment 36th Infantry Division was killed in a Japanese prison Camp in Thailand on 10 September 1943, according to info on his Texas death certificate. Reinterred in Christoval Cemetery 5 June 1948.