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Birth date: abt 1932 Birth place: Residence date: 1 Apr 1940 Residence place: Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Record for Odell Binkley Jr
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- [S2470] Obituary of Odell Binkley - Dignity - 2022, (Name: Mount Olivet Funeral Home & Cemetery; Location: Nashville TN; Date: 20 Jul 2022;), Odell E Binkley Jr.
dell Binkley Jr., age 90, of Hermitage, Tennessee passed away on Sunday, July 17, 2022. Odell was born January 7, 1932 in Nashville, TN.
He is survived by his daughter, Ann Smith (Jeff), two sons, Dell Binkley (Connie), and John Binkley (Leighsa), grandchildren, Sarah Foutch (David), Adrian Stubblefield (Jeremy), MaryBeth Smith, Callie Radley (Eric), Christopher Smith (Becky), John Mark Binkley, and Albert Binkley, Great-Grandchildren; Lillian, Levi, Savanah and Samantha Stubblefield, Kamryn and Hunter Radley, and Micah Foutch. Cousin Joyce Pardue, and numerous Nieces and Nephews.
He was preceded in Death by his wife, Mary Evelyn Binkley, Parents; Odell Binkley Sr. and Bessie Binkley, Brothers; Pete Stanfield, and Gene Binkley, Sisters; Betty Fuston, Helen Carter, and Darlene Binkley.
Odell was one of the best high school athletes in Nashville, and received the Hume Award. He served his country in the US Navy.
He developed several businesses: Binkley Realty and Auction, Binkley Construction, Regg's Frosty Fresh Food, Mid-South Caretakers, Soil Products, C & D Landfill, C & D Recycling, Binkley's Barn, C & D Landfill Ministries, and furnished start up funds for an unknown amount of business.
Visitation will be held 1:00pm to 3:00pm, and 4:00pm - 8:00pm, July 21 at Mount Olivet Funeral Home, 1101 Lebanon Pike, Nashville, TN 37210. Funeral Service will be held at 11:00am Friday, July 22, and Visitation Friday from 10:00 until time of service at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Hermitage, TN,
Interment will follow in Mount Oliver Cemetery. Pallbearers are: John Mark Binkley, Albert Binkley, Ronnie Shores, Rick McNeese, Jeremy Stubblefield, Eric Radley, Ken Gibbs, David Foutch, Micah Foutch, Terry Shores, Levi Stubblefield, and Hunter Radley. Honorary Pallbearers; The staff and residents of Charter Retirement Center, Emmanuel Lutheran Church Members, North High Alumni, and the members of Kalb Hollow.
In lieu of flowers please consider donations in honor of Odell to Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Hermitage, or a charity of your choosing.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.mountolivet.com for the Binkley family.
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/nashville-tn/odell-binkley-10850918
- [S2466] Odell Binkley Hume Award - The Tennessean - 2 Dec 1950, (Name: The Tennessean; Location: Nashville TN; Date: 2 Dec 1950;), VERSATLE BINKLEY HUME WINNER.
Odell Binkley, a football, baseball and basketball star at North high for the last three years, climaxed one of the top athletic careers in the Nashville Interscholastlc league yesterday when he was presented the William Hume award. Odell was given a gold wrist watch by Reber Boult, Nashville attorney who made the presentation at the Kiwanis club meeting in behalf of Mrs Hume while North Coach Ray Simpson received the huge rotating trophy that goes to school of the winner each year.
Odell was given a gold wrist attorney who made the presentation behalf of Mrs Hume while North Coach Ray Simpson received the huge rotating trophy that goes to school of the winner each year. Both awards were originated by the late Mr Hume in an effort to stimulate sportsmanship and scholarship among the football players attending the six city schools. And Mrs Hume is perpetuating both awards in honor of Mr Hume. The football squads of each school nominated two players and a nine-man board voted on the 12 boys with sportsmanship, scholarship, individual performance and value to the team being the basis of the voting. North was represented by Binkley and Thomas Williams, Howard by Jason Papuchis and James Jett, East by Tommy Bomar and Robert Duke, Cohn by James Bates and Charlie Strong, West by Joel Berlin and Kim Smith, and Hume-Fogg by Billy Craig and Cecil Williams. • BECK ONLY TWO-TIME WINNER
Dale Beck, the only player ever to win the award twice and Roy Herald had been the winner the last three years. And Papuchis was barely beaten by Binkley in this year's voting. Binkley scored 133 points while Tapuchis was credited with 126. Bomar and Bates tied for third place with 102 points while Jett was fifth with 79. Binkley has been nominated by his teammates for the Hume award for the last three years. And Odell, whose flitting feet and tremendous speed gave him the nickname of The Yankee Hummingbird, has been high in the balloting every year.
• LEADS IN FOUR QUALIFICATIONS
Binkley was the leader in two of the four qualification. He led balloting in individual performance and value to the team while Bomar received the most votes in sportsmanship. Jett, with a scholastic average of 95.6, was tops in scholarship. In his four years at North, Binkley has compiled a scholastic average of 89.6 and this year his average is 93.5. Odell, the president of North student body, somehow finds from his heavy school load to also hold a part-time job.
Binkley has scored 196 points in four years at North with most of his touchdowns coming on long runs. And when Odell was starring on offense, he, was making numerous tackles on defense.
Odell has come a long way since he reported for the football team in 1947 weighing 127 pounds. A big 145-pounder now, it's safe to say that the Yankee Hummingbird will go even farther and North high should be proud of this final honor added to Odell's many accomplishments.
• The Tennessean • Nashville, Tennessee • 02 Dec 1950, Sat • Page 10
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105739813/the-tennessean/?xid=637
- [S2467] Odell Binkley US Navy - The Tennessean - 26 Oct 1951, (Name: The Tennessean; Location: Nashville TN; Date: 26 Oct 1951;), COMPANY HONOR MAN.
Odell Binkley Jr, seaman apprentice, Joelton TN, was named honor man of his company at the San Diego naval training center. Binkley, a former North Nashville high school football star, has been in the navy since June.
• The Tennessean • Nashville, Tennessee • 26 Oct 1951, Fri • Page 43
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105747147/the-tennessean/?xid=637
- [S2471] Wikipedia: USS General JC Breckinridge, (Name: Wikipedia;), USS General J C Breckinridge (AP-176).
USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) was a troopship that served with the United States Navy in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. In October 1949 she was redesignated T-AP-176 but retained her Navy crew. Her namesake was United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General James Carson Breckinridge (1877-1942), who was the grandson of John Cabell Breckinridge, who served as Vice President of the United States from 1857 to 1861.
USS General J. C. Breckinridge, a General John Pope class troop transport, was built under Maritime Commission contract by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Company at Kearny, New Jersey.
She was commissioned with a United States Coast Guard crew in June 1945 and was en route to Marseille on her first operational voyage when the surrender of Japan ended World War II.
Peacetime service
The transport made four more voyages to France to bring troops home, then was transferred to the Pacific, arriving at San Francisco in January 1946. A Navy crew replaced her Coast Guard crew there in February, probably after she was selected as one of six ships of her class to be retained in the postwar commissioned fleet. Following five trans-Pacific voyages, between October 1946 and January 1947 General J. C. Breckinridge was then converted at Philadelphia for peacetime employment, with special facilities for military dependents. She retained her armament but lost some of her lifeboats. Breckinridge then returned to the Pacific where she maintained a busy schedule of voyages between the west coast of the United States and numerous points in the Western Pacific.
In April 1948, the ship destroyed two floating mines in the San Francisco-Hawaii shipping lanes with gunfire, one 990 miles off the coast and the other 545 miles. They were among more than a dozen sighted recently off the Pacific coast and were thought to be remnants of Japanese mine fields torn loose by storms in the Aleutians.[1]
In October 1949 all the ships in the Naval Transportation Service were reassigned to the newly created Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS). As a ship, operationally subordinate to MSTS she was redesignated T-AP-176, but because she was a commissioned vessel with a Navy, not civilian, crew, General J. C. Breckinridge retained the designation "USS" instead of becoming "USNS."
Korean War
In July 1950, immediately after the outbreak of the Korean War, General J. C. Breckinridge was reconverted to a troop transport at San Francisco and in August carried troops from Seattle to Yokosuka, Japan. She was diverted from her return voyage to support the assault on Inchon, where she arrived with fresh troops the day after the landing. In early November 1950 she sailed from Ft. Mason near San Francisco to Moji, Japan carrying about 3000 ground personnel of the 452nd USAFR Bomb Wing and later in that month assisted in the evacuation of Wonsan, and in December she helped evacuate Hungnam.
General J. C. Breckinridge made two more troop voyages in the war in Korea and then returned to regular MSTS transport duty, carrying both military and civilian passengers throughout the Pacific area. In 1955 she was again modified, losing her armament and receiving additional lifeboats. She remained an active part of the MSTS nucleus fleet as one of its few commissioned ships until December 1965, when she was inactivated and turned over to the Maritime Administration for layup in its reserve fleet.
From 1958 to 1959, Breckinridge was commanded by five time Navy Cross recipient Captain Roy M. Davenport. Davenport earned the decorations as a submarine commander during World War II and was the first person and the only sailor to receive five Navy Crosses.
Vietnam War
Breckinridge played a small role in the Vietnam War in 1965 and received a service star for her service there. She landed troops off the coast of Vũng Tàu in Vietnam in May 1965. In June 1965 she landed troops at Cam Ranh Bay, Nha Trang and Qui Nhon.[2]
Breckenridge also made at least one other voyage to South Vietnam in 1965, dropping off troops at Cam Ranh Bay and Qui Nhon (and perhaps other ports) from 11 to 17 September. Point of departure was Oakland, California, on or about 10 August.
Decommission
General J. C. Breckinridge was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and permanently transferred to the Maritime Administration in December 1966. The Maritime Administration sold her in August 1987 to a Japanese firm for scrapping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_General_J._C._Breckinridge_(AP-176)
- [S2465] Newspapers.com - The Tennessean - 6 Jan 2010 - Page S1, (Name: The Tennessean; Location: Nashville, Tennessee; Date: 6 Jan 2010;), BUILDER HAS PLANS FOR MT JULIET CITY CENTER.
The Tennessean • Nashville, Tennessee • 06 Jan 2010, Wed • Page S1
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105725690/the-tennessean/?xid=637
- [S2469] Local high school 3-sport great Odell Binkley dies at 90, (Name: The Tennessean; Location: Nashville TN; Date: 18 Jul 2022;), The Tennessean • Nashville, Tennessee • 18 Jul 2022.
Local high school 3-sport great Odell Binkley dies at 90
Odell Binkley, one of Nashville’s greatest high school athletes of all time, died Sunday. He was 90.
Binkley, whose nickname was “Dinky” because of his small stature, played football, basketball and baseball at North High. He also was a standout AAU boxer.
In football, he played running back and defensive back and won the 1950 Hume Award, which goes to Nashville’s best high school player.
Nashville Interscholastic League Magazine placed Binkley on the All Decade Of The Fifties second team.
In basketball, Binkley was a two-year starting guard.
In baseball, he was a shortstop who made the inaugural Tennessean All-City Western Division Team as a junior when he posted a .448 batting average. He made the team again as a senior after leading the Yankees to the NIL championship.
Binkley went on to become a prominent local businessman and developer. He owned and operated C&D Construction and Demolition Landfill in Hermitage where he worked daily until his death.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/2022/07/18/nashville-sounds-tickets-attendance-record-first-horizon-park/10075067002/
- [S2468] Findagrave, (Location: Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA; Date: 17 Jul 2022;), Odell E “Dinky” Binkley Jr. 17 Jul 2022.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/241756434/odell-e-binkley
- [S2678] Find a Grave: ODell Binkley Sr, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=binkley&GSfn=o&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=45&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=100950797&df=all&.
Son of Lou Brown and William L Binkley. Married Bessie Lee Stanfield 25 Mar 1931 Davidson, TN. Children: Betty L and Odell Binkley Jr. Burial: Spring Hill Cemetery Nashville Davidson County Tennessee, USA Find A Grave Memorial# 100950797
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=binkley&GSfn=o&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=45&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=100950797&df=all&
- [S2464] Find a Grave: Mary Evelyn Binkley, Mary Evelyn Regg Binkley - Birth: Nov. 15, 1932 - Death: Jul. 5, 2017.
Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery
Survived by her husband of 64 years, Odell 'Dinky' Binkley, Jr.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181069760/mary-evelyn-binkley
- [S2472] Marriage of Mary Evelyn and Odell Binkley - Nashville Tennessean - 19 Apr 1953, (Name: The Tennessean; Location: Nashville TN; Date: 19 Apr 1953;), BECOMES BRIDE AT CHURCH CEREMONY.
Mrs Odel Binkley Jr, prior to her marriage Thursday night at Second Presbyterian church, was Miss Mary Evelyn Regg, daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Regg.
• The Tennessean • Nashville, Tennessee • 19 Apr 1953, Sun • Page 50
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