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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 […]

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 […]

Washington, D.C., Aug. 13 (AP)—The Navy announced today the names of 72 casualties, including 16 dead, 6 wounded, and 50 missing. In addition, the names of naval personnel are included whose status has been officially changed as follows: Two prisoners of war to dead; one missing to dead; two wounded to missing, and one safe […]

Private William Regan, 22, 61 Cambridge Street, St. Paul, a Marine, was killed in action [July 20, 1943] in the Southwest Pacific area, the Navy Department informed his mother, Mrs. Hazel Beggs Regan. He attended Cretin and Central High Schools and Notre Dame University.

A memorial service will be held at Unity Temple, Hotel Sinton, at 11 a.m. tomorrow in tribute to the memory of Pfc. Norton V. Retzsch, who has been reported missing in action [July 9, 1943] for more than a year. Private Retzsch is the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Retzsch of Cincinnati.

Pvt. James Hortin Roosevelt, U.S. Marines, only son of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Roosevelt of south of Albion, has been killed in action [July 8, 1943] in the South Pacific area, according to a message received by his parents Friday and dated at Arlington, Va., last Thursday, July 29. The message which was signed […]

Washington, Jan. 13—Among Marines designated to receive the Navy Cross from Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, for “extraordinary heroism” in an attack on Makin Island in the Pacific last August was Pvt. Donald R. Roberton, missing in action [August 18, 1942], son of Mrs. Juanita Roberton, 916 Main Street, Franklin, La. Historian’s note: […]

Eight Philadelphians were recorded yesterday as killed in action, six as missing and 16 as wounded in a Navy Department list of casualties reported to next of kin between Nov. 16 and 30, inclusive. The department also listed 16 additional from the Philadelphia suburbs and South Jersey as killed, two from those areas as missing […]

Pvt. Joseph Francis Riley, son of the late James and Dora Riley of Alum Bridge, was killed in action on Guadalcanal September 14, 1942. He entered the Marine Corps on January 6 of that year and went overseas the following April, landing on Tulagi on August 7. Attending the College only one term, 1939, Pvt. […]

Valley Springs, S.D., Mar. 22—Funeral services for Austin T. Rollag, who was killed in action during the late war, will be held at the Palisade Lutheran Church southwest of Garretson at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rollag, of Valley Springs, have received word from the War Department that the body […]