Students of Pelzer Public Schools who gave their lives in World War II were Jack Bannister, J. Feaster Beacham, Clinton Dean, Grady Dunlap, John D. McBrearty, Jack Meares, Lamar Neely, John W. Phillips, Harold Ross, Gordon P. Stone, William Watkins, John F. Allen, and Fred Carter, Jr.; they rest in everlasting glory.