Lewis J. Gentry
Staff Sergent, United States Army
November 16, 1956 – October 26, 2005
Age – 48
Detroit, MI
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Assigned to the 94th Engineer Battalion, Vilsech, Germany
Died of non-combat injuries in Mosul, Iraq
Vianne Gentry remembers the day when her little brother enlisted in the Army. It was Nov. 26, 1986.
He was a really good guy.”
Vianne Gentry’s son, VonEric Gentry, had already enlisted in the military. He encouraged his uncle to join. He really wasn’t doing that much at the time and wanted him to go into the military. I told him it would give him a good start. Get a career and training.
Lewis Gentry enlisted and served in a transportation unit. That took him to the Middle East during the Persian Gulf War and into Somalia. He was assigned to a transportation unit in Germany most recently, but VonEric Gentry wasn’t sure what his uncle was doing in Mosul.
He died of non-combat injuries in Mosul, Iraq.