Author

Pfc. Charles Irvin Simmers 20, USMC, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Simmers, Waynesboro, R. R. 3, has been killed in action [July 21, 1944] in the Southwest Pacific, according to a telegram to the parents from the Marine Corps. The telegram did not divulge the date of the young Marine’s death nor indicate […]

Marine Pfc. Edward T. Luedtke, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Luedtke, of 826 North Mason, was killed in action [July 21, 1944] in the Central Pacific, his parents have been notified by the War Department. The date and place of his death were not reported, but it is presumed he was killed […]

Memorial services for Pfc. [Corwin] Pearl, 21, who was killed in action on Guam July 21, 1944, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday from the Bell Funeral Home, Birmingham, under auspices of Corwin Pearl AMVETS Post No. 36, of Troy Township. He was the son of Mrs. Frances Wisterman, 2210 Vermont, Troy Township, Oakland […]

Mrs. Artie Holder Bagwell was notified by the War Department that her son, Pfc. Earl C. Bagwell, 21, was killed [July 21, 1944] in the South Pacific area. He had been in the service two years and three months and overseas 19 months. He is survived by his mother; five brothers, Oscar, Seaman Second Class, […]

Ten more regional servicemen are announced as casualties of World War 2 today. Six soldiers were killed in action and four other were wounded in combat. Killed in action [July 21, 1944]: Pfc.Stanley J. Zelinski, 21, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Zelinski, West Sixth Street, West Wyoming. Pfc. Zelinski, previously wounded twice […]

Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe E. Fasnacht, 217 South Sixth Street, have received word from the War Department that their son, Pfc. Roscoe Fasnacht, Jr., has been killed in action [July 21, 1944] in the South Pacific area. Private First Class Fasnacht, of the U.S. Marines, enlisted in August, 1942, and was sent overseas about a […]

Navy Chaplain Robert Stump, Jr. will conduct funeral services Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Wilson mortuary chapel for Marine S/Sgt. John O. Casdorph, Jr., whose body was returned Saturday from the Pacific. The son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Casdorph of Kanawha, Two-Mile, Sgt Casdorph was killed July 21, 1944, on the island […]

Services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday for Pfc. Gottlieb, who died July [21], 1944, while serving with the Marine Corps on Guam. He was 20. The youth, who attended Commerce High School, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gottlieb, 2242 Blaine. A brother, Alfred, also survives. Services will be at the […]

The funeral of Marine Pfc. Francis T. Maloughney, 21, son of Mrs. Nellie C. Baker, who was killed in action on July 21, 1944, on Guam, will be conducted from the Edward F. Gaynor Funeral Home at 8:30 a.m. Monday. Rites will follow at 9 a.m. in the Church of the Most Holy Rosary with […]

The War Department Saturday listed two more state men who have given their lives for their country. Nineteen are missing in action and twenty-one have been wounded. Dead [July 21, 1944]: Pfc. Robert R. Kyzar, USMC, son of Mrs. Rose Lee Kyzar of 1211 Gill St., Columbia.