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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 […]

Reburial services for First Lt. Charles William Flanery,Jr., were held at 1 p.m. Friday in Restland Memorial Park with the Rev. Harrison Baker officiating. Flanery volunteered for the United States Marine Corps in 1942 and was killed in action on Okinawa April 30, 1945. He had fought in the battles of Bougainville, Guam, and Emirau […]

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 […]

The body of Cpl. Woodrow A. Feeler, U.S.M.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Feeler, will arrive in Rolla tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. He was killed in action in the battle for Okinawa on April 14, 1945. Cpl. Feeler was born in Maries County, Mo., on October 27, 1917, and was reared on a […]

Sgt. Vito Philip Favia, killed in action at Iwo Jima, March 10, 1945, devoted son of Mike and Mary A., nee Tozzi, loving brother of Marietta, Dolores, and Rosemary. At rest at chapel, 813 W. Taylor Street, Saturday, Jan. 15, 1949, after 1 p.m. Funeral Monday, Jan. 17, 1949, at 9 a.m., from chapel, to […]

Reburial services will be held at 9 o’clock Friday morning at St. Lawrence Catholic Church for Sgt. Charles L. Fitzgerald, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fitzgerald, 520 Thirteenth Avenue north, whose body will arrive here Thursday morning under military escort. The Rev. Peter Rombalski is to officiate and burial will take place in Calvary […]

Oakland, March 30 (Special)—The body of Sgt. Guy Clement Foley, a son of Mrs. Flo Cash Foley of Oakland, arrived at Oakland, Calif., March 27 aboard the U.S.A.T. Walter W. Schwenk. Foley was killed on Iwo Jima Feb. 21, 1945 while serving with the Fifth Marine Division. He had previously served with the Third Raiders […]

Lt. Joseph Fournier, USMC, one of six sons of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Fournier of 58 Fourth Street, Auburn, was killed in action on Sept. 19 (1944) on Peleliu, the Pelau Islands, according to word received here this weekend. Lt. Fournier’s wife, the former Miss Lilah Peterson of Seattle, Wash, and baby daughter, Joline, are [...]

William Feshoh, pharmacist’s mate 3/c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orlo Harrington, 1181/2 Cleveland St., Elmira Heights, died July 27 [1944] from wounds received on [Guam]. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in January, 1943, while a student at the Thomas A. Edison High School. He took boot training at Sampson and went on sea […]

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 […]