obituary-s Category

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8–(AP)–The Navy Department today announced that Arthur Franklin Krutsch, seaman second class, of Jackson, Mich., is being held by the Japanese as a prisoner of war. Other Michigan Navy casualties are: Melvin Lee Roy Sommers, pharmacist’s mate, [second] class, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Sommers, of 5752 Van Dyke, Detroit, wounded [November […]

A member of a Marine Raider unit from St. Louis died in the Southwest Pacific, and a seaman is missing in the North Atlantic, it was announced yesterday. Four other men were listed last night as having been wounded in action in various theaters of war. Pvt. Gregory A. Smith, 24 years old, who was […]

The body of Forest Rex Swank, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Swank, 404 East Market Street, who was killed in action Nov 9, 1943 in the Bougainville Campaign will arrive at 5:07 o’clock Thursday afternoon on the Southbound Monon. Funeral services for Cpl. Swank will be conducted at 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the […]

Pfc. Raymond T. Scanlon, 22, of 86-16 Jamaica Ave., was killed in action Nov. 1 [1943]. In the Marine Corps almost two years, he spent about 15 months in the Pacific area. Scanlon fought at Guadalcanal and later contracted malaria. He has two brothers in the Army, William, a sergeant in England, and Thomas, a […]

Fate has practiced its last irony on a 20-year-old Lubbock Marine Corps corporal who begged so impassionedly more than three years ago that he was allowed to quit school and enlist. Cpl. Thomas R. Stanford is dead. The Army bomber that in a few hours would have deposited him in almost hailing distance of his […]

Butler, Pa., Aug. 3—Private Calvin Selfridge, former manager of a dairy store here, has been killed in action [July 21, 1943] in the Southwest Pacific area, according to a Navy announcement. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Selfridge who have two other sons in the service—Cadet Guy Selfridge, in the Navy, […]

Colton’s honor roll for the Second World War has another gold star, representing Second Lt. Alec Monroe Sim, United States Marine Corps, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Watson R. Sim of 840 Terrace Avenue, have been notified of his death in the South Pacific. They received a telegraph message that Lieutenant Sim had been killed […]

Pvt. James T. Shuemate, United States Marines, has been killed in action [July 20, 1943] while in defense of his country in the Solomons area of the South Pacific battle zone. A telegram was received by Mrs. J. S. Shuemate, mother of Pvt. Shuemate, shortiy after noon Friday, from the War Department in Washington, stating […]

George William States, aged 19, a Marine Raider of the United States Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. George States, Sr., of 513 Gesser Avenue, Lakemont, in a letter to his parents, dated July 2, 1943, and mailed somewhere in the South Pacific, expressed a desire to get into action against the Japs. Yesterday […]

Pvt. 1st Class John T. Sullivan [July 18, 1943], overseas, late of 5219 Union Avenue, beloved son of Delia, nee Price, and the late John Sullivan, fond brother of Patrick, Daniel, Mary, Anna, Rita, Dorothy, and Raymond Sullivan. Solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated Saturday, 11:15 a.m. at Visitation Church.