ROOKS, 1st Lt. Ardell E., WWII

ROOKS, HATCH, WOODSTOCK

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 5/11/2013 at 00:17:04

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Tuesday, February 29, 1944, Page 8

HERE and THERE

Meservey - Lt. Ardell ROOKS of Walker Field, Kans., and Mrs. ROOKS of Early, spent a few days here at the parental Ed ROOKS home.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Thursday, July 06, 1944, Page 12

Iowa Officer Killed Somewhere in India

Meservey - Mr. and Mrs. Ed. ROOKS, who live on a farm at the edge of town, received a message Wednesday that their son, 1st Lt. Ardell ROOKS, was killed in action May 27 somewhere in India. He was about 23 years old.

Lt. ROOKS was married last November to Miss Evelyn HATCH of Nemaha. He took his flight training at camps in California and Arizona. He went overseas 2 months ago and was flying a B-29.

Surviving are his wife, his parents, and a sister, Marilyn.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Friday, July 07, 1944, Page 3

KILLED IN INDIA

Lt. Ardell E. ROOKS, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. ROOKS of Meservey, was believed to have been flying one of the new B-29 super-bombers of the Army Air Forces when killed in action in India - June 27.

Word of his death reached his parents this week.

The U. S. war department announced the B-29 raid on Yamata on June 15.

Lt. ROOKS, who is a graduate of Meservey high school, entered the service June 8, 1942. He received his 2nd lieutennant's commission at the AAF advanced flying school at Douglas, Ariz. He received his primary training at Santa Ana, Cal., and his basic at Merced and Moore, Cal.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Tuesday, July 11, 1944, Page 10

HONOR MEMORY of LT. ROOKS
at MESERVEY CHURCH SUNDAY

Killed in China in Airplane Crash;
Recently Piloted B-29

Memorial services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Meservey Evangelical church for First Lt. Ardell E. ROOKS, killed in an airplane crash in China on June 27. The Rev. S. ROSER, pastor of the church, will be in charge.

Lt. ROOKS was a pilot of a B-29 in the U. S. army air corps in the raid over Japan on June 15. He had been in the service 2 years and 3 months and his last furlough home was in the middle of March this year.

Surviving are his wife, the former Evelyn HATCH of Nemaha; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed ROOKS, and a sister, Marilyn, of Meservey.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Friday, August 25, 1944, Page 7

GIVEN IN MEMORY

A gift of $61.50 has been received by the Clear Lake branch of the Cerro Gordo county chapter of the American Red Cross in memory of the late Lt. Ardell E. ROOKS, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. ROOKS, Meservey, and it has been allocated to the blood plasma fund, it was announced Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. ROOKS, in presenting the money, said, "We want it credited to the Meservey Red Cross workers. The money was given for our son when we requested it in place of so many flowers at the memorial service held for him at Meservey last July."

Lt. ROOKS, pilot of a B-29, was killed in an airplane crash over China last June 27. The gift of money to the blood plasma fund in his memory is acknowledged by Mrs. J. H. WOODSTOCK, chairman of the Clear Lake branch, and greatly appreciated by everyone who is interested in Red Cross blood plasma work.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2013

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