DIAMOND, Kenneth E. 1919-1945

DIAMOND, QUINN, BECK, SEERY, ROSAUER

Posted By: Jan Cox (email)
Date: 7/6/2010 at 17:26:20

Waterloo Daily Courier
April 22, 1945

Three Added to Waterloo List of Dead

Names of three more men were added to the list of Waterloo's war dead by war department messages to relatives here Saturday.

Killed on Luzon were: ... Pfc. Kenneth E. Diamond, 26 ...

Private Diamond was killed in action Mar. 27 on Luzon island, while serving with the 128th infantry, 32nd (Red Arrow) division, a war department telegram informed his wife and two sons, Dale, 3, and Dean, 2, of 909 West First street.

Private Diamond, who had been serving overseas since November, 1944, was employed by the John Deere Tractor Co. before entering service Apr. 13, 1944. He received his basic training at Camp Roberts, Cal.

Born Nov. 3, 1918, in Reinbeck, Ia., the son of Earl J. and Elizabeth Quinn Diamond. He graduated from St. Mary's of Mt. Carmel high school of Eagle Center, Ia. in June, 1937. He married Gladys A. Beck of Hudson, Oct. 10, 1940. They made their home in Waterloo following their marriage.

Besides his parents of Route 1, Hudson, and his wife and two sons are two sisters, Mrs. M.D. Seery, 321 Oak avenue, and Mrs. Donald Rosauer, La Porte City.