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Memorial rites for Pfc. Kenneth C. Peck, 20 years old, Marine Raider Corps, who died [November 4, 1943] of wounds received in action in the South Pacific, will be held at 11 a.m., Sunday, at First Baptist Church, Royal Oak. Pfc. Peck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Peck, of 22351 Nona, Dearborn, was […]

SOUTH HAVEN, July 7 – The body of Pfc. Tony A. Relja, 20, killed in action on Bougainville on November [3], 1943, will arrive by railroad in Grand Junction at 3:30 a.m. Sunday, according to word received here. The body will be brought to the Calvin Funeral Home here. Funeral services for Pfc. Relja will […]

A childhood romance was ended yesterday with the report of the death of Private First Class Robert E. Heffner, a Marine. Private Heffner, 19 years old, was wounded fatally in action in the South Pacific several weeks ago [November 3, 1943]. His parents, Mrs. James Field 218 East Ninth Street, Newport and Herbert Heffner, 316 […]

Mrs. Cecil Mangum, 1603 South Fifth Street, received a telegram from the Navy Department Thursday stating that her son, Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class, Cecil L. Magnum, has been killed in action [November 3, 1943]. Mangum enlisted in the Navy June, 1942, with the “Avengers of Pearl Harbor” and has been serving with the amphibious forces […]

Corporal Donald Eugene Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Young, 416 N. Lumber St., has been killed in action [November 2, 1943] in an unrevealed locality, according to word received yesterday by his parents from the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Lieutenant General Holcomb. Corporal Young was born in Allentown, Sept. 2, 1923, […]

Waverly—Military rites for Marine Pvt. William A. Rodgers, Jr., son of William A. and Henrietta Seymour Rodgers of Auburn, will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Neece Funeral Home at Franklin. The Veterans of Foreign Wars of Virden will have charge of the service. Burial will be in Franklin Cemetery. The body will […]

John Granville Howard, 18, formerly pharmacist mate third class of the Navy, was killed in action [November 1, 1943] in the South Pacific war area, his mother, Mrs. Julia Mae Walton, formerly of Middletown, now of Dayton, learned last week. Howard, who was transferred to the Marine Raiders, lived with his mother at 110 Clinton […]

The body of James Riegel, who was killed Nov. 1, 1943, while serving with the Marine Raiders on Bougainville, will arrive in Tucson Saturday. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at Bring’s Chapel, with the Rev. J. C. Cording of the Palo Verde Baptist Church officiating. A high school quartet, directed by Miss […]

Just 100 yards from where the first Marines were killed in the invasion of Bougainville, burial services were conducted for Pfc. George A. Hudson, Jr., son of George A. Hudson, Sr., a Presbyterian missionary, and Mrs. Hudson, an employee of the Presbyterian Board of Missions here, it was reported yesterday by the International News Service. […]

Full military honors attended the funeral, this morning, for Lt. Col. Joseph P. McCaffery, who was killed at Bougainville Island, Nov. 1, 1943. McCaffery’s final journey brought him from a simple grave in the tropics, across the Pacific and his homeland, to the family’s snow-covered plot in St. Michael’s Cemetery. Despite the weather, throngs turned […]