World War II Honor Roll Leslie Gerald Abbott PFC Born: Feb 27, 1926 Died: Dec 25, !944 Maple Rapids area Buried: Sowle Cemetery CO E 262 INF Essex Township PH Clinton County, MI Leslie J. Action PVT Born: Apr 16, 1919 @ Wheeler, MI Died: Mar 17, 1942 @ Elmonte, Calif. Buried: Mt. Rest Cemetery 1st Clinton County casualty. Section: F 143 Son of M/M William Action. St. Johns, MI Donald E. Armbrustmacher PFC Born: Aug 2, 1923 @ Clinton County Died: Oct 31, 1944 @ France Buried: East Plains Cemetery 141 INF 36 INF DIV Lebanon Township Clinton County, MI Lawrence R. Ash PVT Born: May 26, 1920 Died: Jan 30, 1944 @ Italy St. Johns High School 1939 Buried: Rochester Colony Cemetery 760 TANK BN Ralph David Barber CPL Born: Dec 6, 1918 Died: Jan 31, 1943 @ Africa Laingsburg area, Jason Rd. west Buried: Greenwood Cemetery of Hollister Rd. Vernon, MI TANK BN Milton Barrett PFC Born: Died: @ South Pacific Maple Rapids area Buried: Son of Bernard Barrett - St. Johns. Alvin E. Bast PFC Born: June 24, 1924 Died: Feb 14, 1944 @ Italy Buried: Aug 1948, Mt. Rest Cemetery 7 INF 3 DIV Section: D 46 Member: St. Joseph’s Parish St. Johns, MI Howard F. Benjamin Born: June 15, 1916 Died: June 25, 1946 @ Mendota, Wis. Veterans hospital Lebanon Township area Fowler High School 1935 Buried: June 1946, Mt. Rest Cemetery Section: G 179 St. Johns, MI Earl Harry Benson 3/C A.R.M. Born: May 12, 1924 Died: Jan 30, 1945 @ Salton Sea, Calif. Rodney B. Wilson High School 1942 Buried: Ithaca, MI William Keith Blacker 1st. Lt. Born: Died: Dec 23, 1944 @ Belguim Pewamo area Buried: 8th Tank BN 4th Armored DIV Employed: Jay Eagan - St. Johns, MI Leonard Wilbur Bond 2nd. Lt. Born: Apr 17, 1921 Died: Dec 10, 1944 @ Scotland Buried: Aug 1948, Mt. Rest Cemetery 244 2D Lieut 560 AAF Bomb SQ Section: G 260 St. Johns High School 1939 St. Johns, MI Lloyd Brainard T-Sgt Born: 28 (40?) Died: Sep 25, 1944 @ France Elsie area Buried: Son of Mrs. Emma Sheldon. Was in Co. G. National Guard - 10 years. Gilbert Carrasco PFC Born: Died: Dec 25, 1945 @ Germany Buried: Warren G. Clark SGT AAF newspaper Born: 1907 Died: Aug 15, 1945 @ Spokane, Wash. Buried: Maple Grove Cemetery Ovid, MI Cecil R. Cooley Capt. AAF newspaper Born: Aug 30, 1903 @ St. Johns, MI Died: Aug 20, 1945 @ Covington, Tenn. Buried: Maynard L. Cowles LT U S Air Force Born: Jan 14, 1922 @ Essex Township Died: Mar 3, 1945 @ Germany Buried: 274 Samuel K. Cressman PFC headstone Born: Dec 20, 1921 Died: Feb 22, 1945 Buried: South Bingham Cemetery 376 INF 94 INF DIV Clinton County, MI Nephew of Mrs Bertha Speidel, St. Johns, MI. Stephen J. Cummings Born: Died: Dec 17, 1944 @ France Elsie, north Buried: Son of Reuben Cummings, Mrs. Mary Nedry. Clifford V. David US Army Born: June 30, 1914 Died: Nov 19, 1942 St. Johns area Buried: Union Home Cemetery School SQ 357, Flight 23 Maple Rapids Road Jefferson Barracks, MO Greenbush Township Son of Mabel & Ora David. Clinton County, MI Robert S. DeGurse Capt. US Army newspaper Born: Died: Mar 1943 @ Africa Ovid area Buried: CO L 9th DIV Donald Diller PVT Born: Died: Nov 15, 1944 @ France Maple Rapids area, N/W of St. Johns. Buried: Son of M/M Dan Diller. Richard E. Eckert CPL Born: Died: Apr 13, 1945 @ Okinawa Married to Wauete Stewart, daughter Buried: of M/M Archie Stewart, St. Johns. Wesley Ernest Edwards SGT Born: July 18, 1922 Died: Apr 7, 1945 @ Germany St. Johns, MI Buried: Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens 417 INF 76 DIV Watertown Township Clinton County, MI Raymond Earl Eiserman LT (JG) USNR Born: 1912 Died: May 27, 1945 @ Okinawa Ovid area Family headstone: In Memory Maple Grove Cemetery, Ovid, MI Heber Charles Espie CPL Born: 1914 Died: May 20, 1945 @ England Buried: North Eagle Cemetery US Flying Forces Section: north of south drive. Eagle Township, Clinton County, MI Archie L. Falor SGT (PFC?) Born: Mar 15, 1925 Died: Mar 1, 1945 @ Germany Fowler area Buried: East Plains Cemetery Mother, Edna Falor Lebanon Township 119 INF 30 INF DIV Clinton County, MI Clyde C. Ferguson Born: Died: @ France Mother, Corda Ferguson, St. Johns, MI Buried: James W. Fillmore (Jimmie) Capt. Born: Aug 1, 1918 Died: July 26, 1945 @ France Pewamo High School Buried: June 1949, Mt Rest Cemetery Section: G 334 St. Johns, MI Dale D. Garber LT AAF Pilot B 26 Born Died: MIA: Aug 22, 1943 @ Salerno Ovid High School 1936 Buried: Norman J. Geller 2D LT COL Born: Aug 21, 1913 Died: July 5, 1944 @ Normandy 175 INF 29 INF DIV Buried: May 2, 1949 BSM PH Mt. Rest Cemetery Section: D 148 Member: St. Joseph’s Parish St. Johns, MI Clyde Glumm PFC Born: 1916 Died: Aug 10, 1944 @ France 120th INF 30th DIV Family headstone: Niles Cemetery Son of M/M Orro Glumm, Kebler district. Eagle Township Clinton County, MI Francis Luther Graessle PVT Born: Died: Dec 25, 1944 @ Luxembourg Drayton Plains, formerly St. Johns. Buried: Mother: Mrs. Elsie Thraher. Willis Gregory LT Army Air Corps Instructor Born: Died: @ Calif. Elsie High School 1941 Buried: Fort Calhoun, Nebraska Virgil Chester Hammond PVT US Army Born: Aug 3, 1922 Died: June 13, 1943 @ Camp Campbell, KY HQ BTRY 494 F A BN Buried: Ford Cemetery Gratiot County, MI Elsie American Legion Post 502 Donald Alfred Hansen PFC Born: Died: July 17, 1944 @ France Silver Star Buried: 236 Son of M/M Peter Hansen 815 N. Clinton Street, St. Johns, MI Robert C. Harris Born: Died: camp accident Maple Rapids area Buried: Joseph M. Horak PVT Born: 21y Died: Nov 25, 1944 @ France Elsie High School 1940 Buried: Son of M/M Martin Horak Raymond Horn CPL Born: 34y Died: Oct 3, 1944 @ France St. Johns High School 1929 Buried: Don Dee Ingalls CPL Born: July 31, 1921 Died: Oct 1, 1944 @ South Pacific Buried: Wacousta Cemetery 5 MARINES 1 MARINE DIV Wacousta, MI Stephen Jakus PVT Born: July 17, 1916 @ Leckrone, PA Died: Nov 12, 1944 @ San Pedro Bay, off Leyte, Philippines Member: St. Joseph’s Parish, St. Johns, MI Buried: Hillcrest Memorial Gardens Section: A 123 Owosso, MI Charles L. Johnson PFC Born: Mar 31, 1922 Died: Dec 28, 1944 @ Germany Buried: Rose Cemetery 54 ARMD INF BN Upton Rd. Bath Township 10 ARMD DIV Clinton County, MI Howard Jolly PFC Born: Died: Jan 25, 1945 @ France Eureka area Buried: newspaper Wife’s parents M/M Liewellyn Krepps. Robert E. Kerr S SGT Born: Died: Dec 24, 1944 @ Luxembourg Elsie High School 1943 Buried: Albert J. Kesteloot PVT Born: Sept 17, 1923 @ Gratiot County Died: Sept 19, 1944 @ France Buried: Member: St. Joseph’s Parish, St. Johns, MI Joseph Charles Kudella PVT Born: Jan 28, 1917 Died: Aug 3, 1943 @ New Georgia Solomon Islands 161 INFANTRY Buried: July 1948, Mt. Rest Cemetery SILVER STAR Section: D 150 Member: St. Joseph’s Parish St. Johns, MI Andrew J. Kurncz Born: July 27, 1914 @ Chicago, IL. Died: Jan 18, 1948 @ Veterans Hospital, Dearborn, MI Member: St. Joseph’s Parish Buried: Mt. Rest Cemetery Section: D 150 St. Johns, MI Gale G. Lapham LT Born: Died: June 14, 1944 @ Normandy France SILVER STAR Vincent Paul Lerg LT (Capt?) Born: Died: May 21, @ England DeWitt area Buried: England Navigator 6th Bomber Group Ernie W. Lockwood Seaman 1st Class newspaper Born: 1914 Died: 1945 @ South Pacific In Memory Of: Eureka Cemetery Hyde Rd. Greenbush Township Clinton County, MI Raymond E. Loney CPL Born: Sept 12, 1918 @ Isabella County Died: May 12, 1944 @ Italy Buried: Stilson Cemetery Victor Township Clinton County, MI Richard Eugene Lover PVT (PFC) Born: Sept 17, 1922 Died: March 3, 1945 Son of M/M Eugene Lover - Elsie Buried: Ford Cemetery CO E 47th INF Gratiot County, MI Bill Maloney SGT Born: (22) Died: July 12, 1944 @ France Ovid area Son of M/M Martin Maloney Clarence J. Miller Born: Mar 18, 1915 Died: June 19, 1944 @ Biak Island, New Guinea Campaign 163 INF 41 DIV Buried: June 30, 1948, Pewamo Cemetery Pewamo, MI Service from St. Joseph Catholic Church St. Johns, MI Walter Mitrzak Born: 1921 Died: Sept 20, 1942 Elsie area Buried: Ford Cemetery 722nd Tank Destroyer BN Gratiot County, MI Norman Motz PVT Born: July 15, 1908 Died: May 22, 1945 @ Okinawa Buried: Holy Trinity Cemetery Grange Road, Fowler, Clinton County, MI Jack Myers CPL Born: Died: Sept 24, 1944 @ Blackmore, Ovid High School (Oct 23, 1944?) England In Sherburne School 1924 Buried: Son of Edna Myers. Radio/Gunner B 26 Ronald Myers Born: Died: May 8, V E Day, @ Czecho-Slovakia Former Clinton County Conservation Officer. Berwyn F. Nicholas S SGT 15 Air Force Born: July 30, 1923 Died: MIA: Nov 11, 1944 @ Italy In Memory Of: Maple Grove Cemetery Ovid, MI Son of Alwyn Nicholas. Robert Pearson Born: Died: @ France Son of Mrs. Bessie Pearson, Delta Mills. Frank Perrone S SGT AAF Born: Died: Aug 3, 1944 @ Munich Bath High School Valedictorian 1939 Buried: Lewis S. Phillips, Jr. LT Born: 1922 Died: Nov 28, 1944 @ Smoky Hill Army Air Field, Salinas, Kansas Rodney B. Wilson High School 1939 Buried: DeWitt City Cemetery 39th Group 60th SQD Section: F 122 DeWitt, MI Werner Anthony Pohl Born: Apr 3, 1916 @ Eagle Township Died: Aug 2, 1942 @ Kansas City, MO Buried: Portland, MI Martin J. Rademacher SGT Born: June 27, 1925 Died: Nov 20, 1944 @ Hungary Buried: St. Mary’s Cemetery 454 AAF BOMB GP Westphalia, MI Joseph Wm. Rando PVT US Army Born: Mar 12, 1915 Died: Sept 3, 1944 @ Brest, France Elsie American Legion Post 502 Buried: Maple Grove Cemetery Employed: Detroit Creamery Co. in Ovid. Ovid, MI CO C 116th INF 29 DIV Russell Ribby PFC Born: (21) Died: July 11, 1944 @ France DeWitt area Buried: Son of Alfred Ribby. Lynn Claire Rice LT Born: May 24, 1918 Died: June 21, 1944 @ Italy Son of M/M Roy Rice. Buried: Wacousta Cemetery Wacousta, MI Francis Arden Richmond PFC (PVT?) Born: Jan 4, 1910 @ Bengal Township Died: Jan 3, 1945 @ Belgium Buried: Apr 25, 1948 @ 3rd Armored DIV Williamston, MI Gerald C. Robbins PFC USMC Born: Died: May 15, 1944 @ Central Pacific St. Johns area Son of M/M Charles Robbins. Buried: Robert W. Rose Capt. USMC Reserve Born: Died: Nov 20, 1943 @ South Pacific Ovid area Battle of Tarana Headquarters 2nd Defense BN Buried: Reinforced, V Amphibious Corps Purple Heart Roger Rutter PVT Born: (30) Died: Sept 18, 1944 @ France Bath area Buried: James C. Sandborn PVT Born: (19) Died: Aug 5, 1944 @ France Hubbardston area Buried: Son of M/M William Sandborn. Theodore F. Schafer (Teddy) PFC US Army Born: Aug 1918 Died: July 29, 1944 @ Normandy France 36th INF 3rd Armored DIV Buried: St. Mary’s Cemetery Westphalia, MI Merle R. Secord Corp. Born: Aug 21, 1923 Died: March 11, 1945 @ Germany Mother, Minnis Second - Ovid. Battle of the Bulge Buried: Deepdale Cemetery Fifth Army Lansing, MI Donald Seyfried CPL Born: Sept 30, 1919 Died: April 7, 1944 @ Italy Buried: Hurd Cemetery 15 INF 3 INF DIV DeWitt Township, MI Dale F. Shillinger LT Born: April 19, 1921 @ Carson City, MI Died: Aug 10, 1944 @ Natal, Brazil Wife, Mildred lived Olive Township. Buried: Father, Basil lived Carson City, MI. Carl W. Silvernail PVT Born: Sept 27, 1924 Died: Feb 12, 1944 @ Italy Buried: Eureka Cemetery 15 INF 3 INF DIV Hyde Road Greenbush Township Clinton County, MI James R. Smith PFC Born: Jan 17, 1919 Died: Jan 21, 1945 @ Belgian Ovid High School 1936 Bulge, Battle of Ardennes Buried: Nov 1947 Maple Grove Cemetery Lot 641, Ovid, MI Ronald W. Spitzley CPL INF Born: Aug 24, 1922 Died: Dec 31, 1944 @ France Westphalia High School 1941 Buried: St. Mary’s Cemetery Teller - American State Savings Bank of Lansing. Westphalia, MI Rex R. Swagart CPL Born: April 25, 1913 Died: July 7, 1942 @ Cabanatuan, Phillippines 200 COAST ARTILLERY Buried: Mt. Rest Cemetery Section: F 63 St. Johns, MI Joe Wallace, Jr. PFC Born: Died: @ Germany Wife, Mrs. Margaret Wallace of Mason. Buried: Glenn R. Weiland PVT Born: June 11, 1915 Died: Oct 9, 1944 @ France Buried: Jan 26, 1949, F-300-6 317 INF 80 INF DIV Gunnisonville Cemetery DeWitt Township Clinton County, MI Gordon W. Willoughby CPL Born: Mar 19, 1919 Died: Jan 19, 1945 @ Belgium Elsie N/E Buried: Dale Alrich Wolfrom (Mutt) S/2C US Navy cemetery Born: Jan 6, 1918 Died: Aug 8, 1942 @ sea off Savo Island on USS Quincy In Memory Of: Reed Cemetery Victor Township Clinton County, MI John Wrzesinski PFC Born: Died: @ Italy St. Johns area Buried:
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