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These reports are based on prior notification to next of kin. In case of divergence between this list and the last War or Navy Department information sent to the next of kin, notification sent to the next of kin always is final authority. Navy Dead [April 19, 1945]: Marine Pfc. Robert W. Nyman. Parents, Mr. […]

Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock for Roy Clayton Chick, Marine corporal, who was killed on Okinawa on April 17, 1945. He was born March 9, 1924 in Coryell County, and the family moved to Woodson in 1925. He attended schools there, was an all-star football player before his graduation in […]

Memorial Services will be conducted at 10 o’clock Saturday at St. Edmund’s Church for Pfc. Thomas John Smith of the U.S. Marine Corps, who was killed on April 16 [1945] in Okinawa. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Smith of 118 South Scoville and besides his parents, leaves a sister, Frances […]

Reburial services for Cpl. Byron Kenward Sims, who was killed April 16,1945 on Okinawa, will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Lamar & Smith Chapel, 800 West Jefferson. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park with military rites. Sims, who lived at 827 South Edgefield, was 18 when he was killed. He […]

Word has been received by relatives here of the death in action of Shelby Alvin Flowers, Jr., on April 16 [1945] on Okinawa, in the Southwest Pacific, where he was a Marine Raider. He was son of Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Flowers, Vicksburg, Miss. and Mrs. A. J. Criswell, West Monroe, is an aunt. His […]

Major Bernard W. Green, 26, U.S. Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Green, of Gradyville, was killed in action April 15 [1945], on Okinawa. He was awarded the Silver Star medal last July for holding the beachhead at Guam with his unit in the face of intensive enemy fire until reinforcements arrived. In […]

Pfc. Leonard D. Bartczak, USMC, of 4386 E. 49, killed in action, Apr. 15, 1945, at Okinawa; beloved son of Simon and Rose (deceased), brother of Ted, Clara Jezierski, Florence, Frank, Simon Jr., and Al. Beloved uncle. Funeral Sat., Mar. 26, at 8:30 a.m., from Golubski & Sons Funeral Home, corner E. 65 and Fullerton […]

Memorial services will be held today in the St. Brendan Church, 6714 Racine Ave., for Bernard L. Harlin, 22-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harlin, 6746 Ada St., who was killed in the battle of Okinawa a year ago [April 15, 1945]. He was attached to the [Sixth] Marine Division. His brother, John, 20-years-old, […]

The last War Department or Navy Department notice to the next of kin is always the appropriate final authority on a serviceman’s status. Navy Dead [April 15, 1945]: Corp. Eugene Owen, USMC, son of Mr. and Mrs. Powell Owen, Newbern.

Pfc. Howard Earl Manwaring, USMC, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Manwaring, Vernal, was killed on Okinawa, April 15 [1945]. He was born in Vernal, Dec. 26, 1924, and was graduated from Uintah High School. He entered the [Marine Corps] in July, 1943, and went overseas in December. He was a veteran of Rabaul and […]