Veterans from Frankfort, Kansas, and the surrounding area who gave their lives in military service included Benjamin F. Hersh, John Hunt, Albert H. Jackson, Albert C. Leopold, Joe P. Meaghen, Joseph L. McMinimy, and Henry W. Waxler in World War I; Fredrick Barrett, Harold Eisenbach, Robert Emmingham, Theodore Rhodes, David L Shyne, and Willard Simpson in the Navy, Willard A. Backman, Don Hockensmith, and Charles F. Zinn in the Air Corps, Lloyd C. Blackney and Clifford Watson in the Marines, Koester Johnston, Donald E. King, and Weldon Maneval in the Air Force, and Clarence D. Ashberger, Fred Bentsen, Ralph Choquette, Leland Cook, Melvin Cope, Elmer Crumpton, Kenneth DeWalt, Victor E. Feldhausen, Peter Fiegener, Rodney Fundis, William R. Gibson, Dale Hooper, Johnny Joe Jackson, Milan E. Jester, Vern F. Long, Matt McKeon, Carl O. Nord, Aloysius Noud, Howard Olson, Paul A. Paden, Charles Poff, Charles L. Punteney, James Stoffel, Robert B. Welsh, Loraine Westenhaver, and Munro Zoellner in the Army during World War II; Eugene Miller in the Korean War; and Gerald Founds in the Vietnam War.