SP4 Moseley served with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division.

OBITUARY

MURRAY SIMS MOSELEY KILLED IN WAR.

The war in Vietnam may seem far away for many people, but it came home hard this weekend for Statesvillians, with the death of Specialist 4 Murray Sims Moseley, 20, 237 Davie Avenue, who had been in Vietnam only five weeks. Moseley, a former football and wrestling star at Statesville Senior High School, was fatally injured Saturday by a hostile land mine explosion in Vietnam.

He was the son of John Reginald Moseley Sr, and Elizabeth Sims Moseley of Statesville. Moseley had been home on leave and left Statesville on March 20 for duty in Vietnam

He had served in Germany for 18 months and had volunteered for service with the US Army in Vietnam.

He joined the Army in February, 1964, taking basic training and advanced individual training at Ft Jackson, SC, and left for Germany in July 1964, returning here on furlough on February 21.

Moseley, a 1963 graduate of Statesville Senior High School, had attended the fall semester at East Carolina College prior to enlisting in the Army.

Word of his death came early Sunday morning, around 6:30 o'clock when Sgt Maj George E Moore Jr advisor to the First Brigade, 30th Infantry Division of the local National Guard unit, delivered the grim message to the Moseley residence. The telegram from the Defense Department said Moseley had been killed "on April 30 as a result of a hostile mine explosion in combat operations".

Al Archibald, former football coach at SHS and now principal of Mulberry Street School said this morning that Moseley was one of the best lineman he had coached. He was right in there with Sullivan (Bill, who made All-ACC at N.C. State) and Harmon (John, a Morehead Scholar and football star at University of North Carolina). All three were our pulling guards and each made the other into fine football players. "Murray was a real quiet boy, easy to work with and wonderful to be around but a real competitor". Archibald recalled, "He would have had an excellent senior year except for that tough break".

That tough break, Archibald recalled was when Moseley came down with glandular fever and had to miss most of the season. Return to action late in the season, Archibald recalled, he gave it everything he could. He couldn't go full speed, but gave us all he had. He was that type of boy, a real competitor. "We always found him to be a very polite and friendly young man", Principal L. Dent Miller of Statesville High School said this morning. In addition to being co-captain the football squad and being a member of the wrestling squad, Moseley was in the Glee Club and Key Club for two years and was a representative to the student assembly.

Moseley, Murray Sims, SP 4