Anthony Patrick Eversull was born in Germany in October 1948. He was the son of Antoinette J. Okamoto of Torrance and stepson of Kenneth Eversull. Eversull was a member of the San Pedro Cadet Squadron 81 of the Civil Air Patrol when he was 15 years old. About two years later, on October 25, 1965, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. He arrived in Vietnam on January 25, 1967 and was a Ground Radio Operator assigned to Company A, 1st Amtrac Battalion, 1st Marine Division.

On May 4, 1968, Corporal Eversull was riding in a LVTP-5 armored fighting vehicle when it struck a hostile mine in the La Tho Bac hamlet in the Dien Ban District of Quang Nam Province. He died later this same day at a navy hospital as a result of burns suffered from the explosion. Anthony Eversull was 19 years old when he died, and is buried at the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, California.