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Funeral services for Marine Corps Cpl. Raymond Rowland Wagner, who was killed in action May 20, 1945, on Okinawa, will be Friday at 2:30 p. m. at Zion Congregational Church under direction of the Ross Hollywood Mortuary. Military honors will be accorded at the grave in the veterans’ plot of Lincoln Memorial Park. Corporal Wagner, […]

Marine Pfc. Laurence A. Fleck, 23, was killed on Okinawa May 20 [1945], his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Fleck, 1094 Eleventh Avenue SE, have been notified. Fleck entered service in September, 1942, a year after graduation from Marshall High School. He was employed by the Martin Ware Co. prior to his enlistment. A […]

Names of war heroes reported by the War Department as prisoners of war, missing and killed in the service of their country from June 13 to 19 are included on this honor roll with names of next of kin. Marines: Pfc. Max W. Mansfield, son of Edward E. Mansfield, 1741 Edison St., killed [May 20, […]

The second of two sons of Richard C. Burleigh, Sr., of West Nyack, and Mrs. Alice Miller of LeRoy, Ill., Platoon Sergeant Philip T. Burleigh, 19, has been killed in action according to word received by the father. Sgt. Burleigh, who has been in every action since Bougainville in the South Pacific, was killed in […]

Funeral services will be conducted at the Geo. M. Wittich Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Monday for Pfc. James Wilbur Hart, Jr., 21, who was killed in action May 20, 1945, while serving with the infantry of the Sixth Marine Division on Okinawa. Officiating will be the Rev. J. Arthur Eveland, pastor of the First […]

Stuttgart—Funeral services for Corporal Lawrence Edwin Selig, USMC, age 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. Selig, who was killed in action on Okinawa May 20, 1945, were held at 10 o’clock Saturday morning, April 9, at Holy Rosary Church. The pastor, the Rev. J. G. Evans, officiated at the Requiem High Mass and […]

Columbus, March 23—Funeral services for Corporal Carl Frederick Eder, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Eder of near Columbus, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of the Columbus funeral home. The Rev. John Howlett of the Columbus Congregational Church will officiate. Corporal Eder was killed May 20, 1945, in […]

Graveside service for Marine Cpl. Leon Leander Peavy, 20, ex-Salem resident who died in action on Okinawa [May 20] 1945, will be Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Belcrest Memorial Park in Salem. He attended Silverton High School and Eastern Oregon College of Education.

Pfc. Billy Fornof, USMC, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fornof, Sr., of 1103 Calvin Avenue, was killed in action May 20 [1945], while serving with the 4th Marine…Regiment on Okinawa, the War Department informed his parents in a telegram received late Wednesday afternoon. Private Fornof was attending East Nashville High School at the […]

Pfc. Joseph R. Samuelsen of 29 Knight Court was killed in action on Okinawa May 20 [1945], according to word received by his mother, Mrs. Veronica Dunn Samuelsen. He was 20. Private Samuelsen took part also in battles on Bougainville, Guam and elsewhere in the Pacific. Born in Brooklyn, he was a graduate of Public […]