Note: Ron Ward was adopted at birth in 1957 by Joseph & Thora Ward in Tampa, Florida. The story was that the mother was young (possibly teen-age), unwed, and visiting family in Florida in order to have the baby away from her hometown. Her last name was "Beal". A family doctor delivered the baby and arranged the private adoption with his adoptive parents immediately.
So far I (Melissa, his daughter) have made a lot of progress by cross-referencing my DNA matches and discovering I'm directly related to the following family lines in North Carolina: Brown, DeHart, Grant, Stowers, Byrd, McMahan, Mason. Specific counties are Catawba, Swain, Yancey, Macon, Henderson. You can see the work I've done so far on family trees on my Ancestry profile: https://www.ancestry.com/connect/Profile/00184393-0006-0000-0000-000000000000
All information is welcome!! Thank you in advance for helping my family reconnect.
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Joseph Cleve & Thora Louise (Driggers) Ward's son Ron was born July 5, 1957 in Tampa, Florida.
LTC Ward served his country for 31 years in the U.S. Army, first in the Infantry and later in Special Forces. He earned an AA degree in Criminal Justice, a BS in Liberal Arts and a Master of Arts in Military Studies with emphasis in Unconventional Warfare/Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. Other military training included: Command and General Staff College, Contemporary Insurgent Warfighters Course, DoD Hostage Survival Course, Joint Military Attache' School, Defense Institute for Security Assistance Management, Combined Arms and Services Staff School, Special Operations Staff Officer, Special Forces Qualification Course, Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced course, Military Freefall Parachutist, Special Forces Combat Dive and Combat Dive Supervisor, Airborne Basic and Advanced School, Pathfinder School, RANGER School and Infantry Mortar Platoon.
His commands included Infantry Platoon Leader, Special Forces Operational Detachment Commander in Panama, Infantry Company Commander, Special Forces Battalion Operations Officer in Japan, Special Operations Staff Officer, Assistant Army Attache in Mexico, Defense and Army Attache Commander in Suriname. He also was Senior ROTC Assistant Professor of Military Science, JROTC Military Science Department Head, Force Protection/Security Coordinator in Afghanistan, Staff Group Leader at the Combined Arms and Services Staff School and Special Operations Chief Curriculum/Course Designer and Instructor in Kuwait, Team Chief of a Brigade Border Transition Team in Iraq and was currently employed at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas as Deputy Director with Combined Arms Center SOF Cell.
LTC Ward was a member of the American Military Retiree Association, AUSA, American Legion, AAFMA, VFW, NRA, MOAA, Command Parachute Team and Special Forces Association. Locally he was a member of the Northeast Kansas Beekeepers Association, Kansas Honey Producers Association, American Apitherapy and the Round Prairie Community Church where he served as an Elder and played the Whalebone bass in the church band. He had previously served on the Lansing Police Department as a Reserve.
To learn more about this amazing man, please visit his official memorial website: http://rememberingron.com
So far I (Melissa, his daughter) have made a lot of progress by cross-referencing my DNA matches and discovering I'm directly related to the following family lines in North Carolina: Brown, DeHart, Grant, Stowers, Byrd, McMahan, Mason. Specific counties are Catawba, Swain, Yancey, Macon, Henderson. You can see the work I've done so far on family trees on my Ancestry profile: https://www.ancestry.com/connect/Profile/00184393-0006-0000-0000-000000000000
All information is welcome!! Thank you in advance for helping my family reconnect.
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Joseph Cleve & Thora Louise (Driggers) Ward's son Ron was born July 5, 1957 in Tampa, Florida.
LTC Ward served his country for 31 years in the U.S. Army, first in the Infantry and later in Special Forces. He earned an AA degree in Criminal Justice, a BS in Liberal Arts and a Master of Arts in Military Studies with emphasis in Unconventional Warfare/Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. Other military training included: Command and General Staff College, Contemporary Insurgent Warfighters Course, DoD Hostage Survival Course, Joint Military Attache' School, Defense Institute for Security Assistance Management, Combined Arms and Services Staff School, Special Operations Staff Officer, Special Forces Qualification Course, Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced course, Military Freefall Parachutist, Special Forces Combat Dive and Combat Dive Supervisor, Airborne Basic and Advanced School, Pathfinder School, RANGER School and Infantry Mortar Platoon.
His commands included Infantry Platoon Leader, Special Forces Operational Detachment Commander in Panama, Infantry Company Commander, Special Forces Battalion Operations Officer in Japan, Special Operations Staff Officer, Assistant Army Attache in Mexico, Defense and Army Attache Commander in Suriname. He also was Senior ROTC Assistant Professor of Military Science, JROTC Military Science Department Head, Force Protection/Security Coordinator in Afghanistan, Staff Group Leader at the Combined Arms and Services Staff School and Special Operations Chief Curriculum/Course Designer and Instructor in Kuwait, Team Chief of a Brigade Border Transition Team in Iraq and was currently employed at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas as Deputy Director with Combined Arms Center SOF Cell.
LTC Ward was a member of the American Military Retiree Association, AUSA, American Legion, AAFMA, VFW, NRA, MOAA, Command Parachute Team and Special Forces Association. Locally he was a member of the Northeast Kansas Beekeepers Association, Kansas Honey Producers Association, American Apitherapy and the Round Prairie Community Church where he served as an Elder and played the Whalebone bass in the church band. He had previously served on the Lansing Police Department as a Reserve.
To learn more about this amazing man, please visit his official memorial website: http://rememberingron.com
Note: Ron Ward was adopted at birth in 1957 by Joseph & Thora Ward in Tampa, Florida. The story was that the mother was young (possibly teen-age), unwed, and visiting family in Florida in order to have the baby away from her hometown. Her last name was "Beal". A family doctor delivered the baby and arranged the private adoption with his adoptive parents immediately.
So far I (Melissa, his daughter) have made a lot of progress by cross-referencing my DNA matches and discovering I'm directly related to the following family lines in North Carolina: Brown, DeHart, Grant, Stowers, Byrd, McMahan, Mason. Specific counties are Catawba, Swain, Yancey, Macon, Henderson. You can see the work I've done so far on family trees on my Ancestry profile: https://www.ancestry.com/connect/Profile/00184393-0006-0000-0000-000000000000
All information is welcome!! Thank you in advance for helping my family reconnect.
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Joseph Cleve & Thora Louise (Driggers) Ward's son Ron was born July 5, 1957 in Tampa, Florida.
LTC Ward served his country for 31 years in the U.S. Army, first in the Infantry and later in Special Forces. He earned an AA degree in Criminal Justice, a BS in Liberal Arts and a Master of Arts in Military Studies with emphasis in Unconventional Warfare/Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. Other military training included: Command and General Staff College, Contemporary Insurgent Warfighters Course, DoD Hostage Survival Course, Joint Military Attache' School, Defense Institute for Security Assistance Management, Combined Arms and Services Staff School, Special Operations Staff Officer, Special Forces Qualification Course, Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced course, Military Freefall Parachutist, Special Forces Combat Dive and Combat Dive Supervisor, Airborne Basic and Advanced School, Pathfinder School, RANGER School and Infantry Mortar Platoon.
His commands included Infantry Platoon Leader, Special Forces Operational Detachment Commander in Panama, Infantry Company Commander, Special Forces Battalion Operations Officer in Japan, Special Operations Staff Officer, Assistant Army Attache in Mexico, Defense and Army Attache Commander in Suriname. He also was Senior ROTC Assistant Professor of Military Science, JROTC Military Science Department Head, Force Protection/Security Coordinator in Afghanistan, Staff Group Leader at the Combined Arms and Services Staff School and Special Operations Chief Curriculum/Course Designer and Instructor in Kuwait, Team Chief of a Brigade Border Transition Team in Iraq and was currently employed at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas as Deputy Director with Combined Arms Center SOF Cell.
LTC Ward was a member of the American Military Retiree Association, AUSA, American Legion, AAFMA, VFW, NRA, MOAA, Command Parachute Team and Special Forces Association. Locally he was a member of the Northeast Kansas Beekeepers Association, Kansas Honey Producers Association, American Apitherapy and the Round Prairie Community Church where he served as an Elder and played the Whalebone bass in the church band. He had previously served on the Lansing Police Department as a Reserve.
To learn more about this amazing man, please visit his official memorial website: http://rememberingron.com
So far I (Melissa, his daughter) have made a lot of progress by cross-referencing my DNA matches and discovering I'm directly related to the following family lines in North Carolina: Brown, DeHart, Grant, Stowers, Byrd, McMahan, Mason. Specific counties are Catawba, Swain, Yancey, Macon, Henderson. You can see the work I've done so far on family trees on my Ancestry profile: https://www.ancestry.com/connect/Profile/00184393-0006-0000-0000-000000000000
All information is welcome!! Thank you in advance for helping my family reconnect.
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Joseph Cleve & Thora Louise (Driggers) Ward's son Ron was born July 5, 1957 in Tampa, Florida.
LTC Ward served his country for 31 years in the U.S. Army, first in the Infantry and later in Special Forces. He earned an AA degree in Criminal Justice, a BS in Liberal Arts and a Master of Arts in Military Studies with emphasis in Unconventional Warfare/Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. Other military training included: Command and General Staff College, Contemporary Insurgent Warfighters Course, DoD Hostage Survival Course, Joint Military Attache' School, Defense Institute for Security Assistance Management, Combined Arms and Services Staff School, Special Operations Staff Officer, Special Forces Qualification Course, Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced course, Military Freefall Parachutist, Special Forces Combat Dive and Combat Dive Supervisor, Airborne Basic and Advanced School, Pathfinder School, RANGER School and Infantry Mortar Platoon.
His commands included Infantry Platoon Leader, Special Forces Operational Detachment Commander in Panama, Infantry Company Commander, Special Forces Battalion Operations Officer in Japan, Special Operations Staff Officer, Assistant Army Attache in Mexico, Defense and Army Attache Commander in Suriname. He also was Senior ROTC Assistant Professor of Military Science, JROTC Military Science Department Head, Force Protection/Security Coordinator in Afghanistan, Staff Group Leader at the Combined Arms and Services Staff School and Special Operations Chief Curriculum/Course Designer and Instructor in Kuwait, Team Chief of a Brigade Border Transition Team in Iraq and was currently employed at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas as Deputy Director with Combined Arms Center SOF Cell.
LTC Ward was a member of the American Military Retiree Association, AUSA, American Legion, AAFMA, VFW, NRA, MOAA, Command Parachute Team and Special Forces Association. Locally he was a member of the Northeast Kansas Beekeepers Association, Kansas Honey Producers Association, American Apitherapy and the Round Prairie Community Church where he served as an Elder and played the Whalebone bass in the church band. He had previously served on the Lansing Police Department as a Reserve.
To learn more about this amazing man, please visit his official memorial website: http://rememberingron.com
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