Lindsey Clayton Lockett

CPL Lindsey Clayton Lockett was born September 10, 1926 in Richmond, Virginia to the late Bayliss and Rebecca Lockett.

Lindsey attended Richmond Public Schools graduating from Maggie L. Walker High School. After graduation, he joined the United States Army Reserve. When he finished his duty with the reserve, he obtained employment at McGuire Veteran's Hospital. Lindsey's passion was fixing hair, preferably, women's hair and he enrolled in Turpin's Barber and Beauty School. He continued working for McGuire Hospital during the week and on the weekends, he would go to school. He graduated from Turpin. While attending Turpin Barber and Beauty School, he met the love of his life, Anna Wallace. In 1950, he received orders to report for active duty to Korea. He told his commanding officer he wanted to get married and he was given three days after he returned home to get married. He and Anna planned their wedding and got married at St. Phillip's Episcopal Church where he was a member. Out of that union they had a son. This was the last time he saw his wife and he did not get a chance to see his baby at all.

CPL Lockett was a member of the 503rd field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Kunu-ri, North Korea on December 1, 1950 and died while a prisoner on May 31, 1951. His name is permanently inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. CPL Lockett's remains were later recovered and identified in 2014. He had been missing for sixty-four years. Corporal Lockett was awarded the Prisoenr of War Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, teh Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.

Corporal Lockett was preceeded in death by his mother, father and brother Robert Lockett. He is survived by his wife Anna Lockett Brown; son, Lindsey Lockett (Norma); brother, Charles Foster from British Columbia, Canada; grandson, Leonardo Lockett (Michelle); granddaughter, Natosha Tolliver; two great grandchildren, Devin and Mikayla Lockett; and a host of cousins, including one devoted, Gladys Lewis, other family and friends.

Funeral service will be held Saturday April 11, 2015 at 11:00 AM at New Deliverance Evangelistic Church, 1701 Turner Road, North Chesterfield, VA 23225. Bishop Gerald Glenn, officiating. His final resting place will be at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Henrico, VA.