obituary-s Category

Roger Schacht, 25, 1514 Algonquin Rd., Des Plaines, took his own life Monday morning [December 9, 1946] by firing a bullet from a .45 government Colt into his head. Herman Stoeckel, Arlington Hts., notified the county sheriff’s police at 10:45 that a man was slumped over the steering wheel of a ‘34 Pontiac parked on […]

Miami, Fla., Dec. 7 (AP)—A sea and air armada was ordered out today to search 100,000 square miles of the Atlantic in a “last chance” effort to rescue 27 men who disappeared with five torpedo bombers and a missing rescue plane. Aboard one of the missing bombers was Capt. George W. Stivers of Piedmont, Mo. […]

Marine Pvt. Robert D. Spackman, a former star fullback on the West High School football team in Aurora, was killed in action June 17 [1945] on Okinawa, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Spackman, 1445 Garfield Ave., Aurora, have been notified. A few days earlier, his parents received a letter he had written June […]

Pfc. Paul (Whitey) Siekkinen, of Vernon, O., who was killed June [10], 1945, at Oroku Peninsula in the South Pacific while on duty with the U.S. Marines, will be returned here for burial. Born Aug. 9, 1924, in Ashtabula, Pfc. Siekkinen was a son of Andrew and Mary Siekkinen. He enlisted March 3, 1943, while […]

Funeral for Pfc. Jack Delbert Stine, 20, who was killed June 8, 1945, on Okinawa will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Stine, Beulah Church Road. Burial will be in Resthaven Cemetery. In addition to his parents, he is survived by a sister, Mrs. […]

Word has been received that the son of Maj. Edward Ford Stevenson and Mrs. Mary Popham Stevenson, Sgt. Laurence Stevenson, USMC, was killed in action June 8 [1945] on Okinawa. Sergeant Stevenson, a member of the [2nd] Raider Battalion, had been in the South Pacific for the past three years, and had seen action in […]

Marine Cpl. Calvin Sarchet, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Presley Sarchet, Algona, was killed in action on Okinawa recently [June 5, 1945] according to word received here by local relatives Tuesday. His aunt, Mrs. Douglas Wilden, left that evening for Laramie, Wyo., to be with the boy’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Verne Sarchet. Mrs. Sarchet […]

Memorial services for Marine Pfc. Lloyd Soderberg, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. August Soderberg, Dassel, Minn., will be held Sunday at 8 p.m. at First Lutheran Church, Dassel. Soderberg entered service in Dec., 1942 and went overseas in June, 1943. Killed on Okinawa May 27, 1945, Soderberg had participated in campaigns on Bougainville, Guam […]

Mrs. Clara Fosen received word that her nephew, Marnold Shaw, 21, had died [May 23, 1945] from wounds received in action at Okinawa, where he was serving with the Marines. He had expected to be home soon on furlough.

Funeral for Platoon Sgt. Mickey F. Sparks, 23, who was killed May 23, 1945, on Okinawa, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at McAfee Chapel, Buechel. Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park. Sparks was a graduate of Fern Creek High School. Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Sparks, Buechel; brother, Billy […]