CARROLL, Quartermaster 2/C Guy Wayne

CARROLL, SEARLE, SMITH, LASKOWSKI, KARGES

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/14/2013 at 08:04:49

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Monday, June 18, 1935, Page 5

17 Days Furlough

Guy Wayne Carroll is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Carroll, No 35 Lehigh cottage. He is home from San Diego on a furlough of 17 days. He will be assigned to one of the ships of the fleet on his return.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Monday, January 12, 1942, Page 6

North Iowa Navy Club At Meeting

North Iowa Navy Mothers met at the P. G. & E. auditorium Saturday afternoon for the installation of new officers . . . . A memorial service was held in honor or Erwin Searle and Guy Carroll, two Mason City boys who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor. A group of mothers sang “Nearer Still Nearer.”

Mr. Frank Smith of Crystal Lake was a visitor and told of receiving the news of the deaths of her two boys and then on New Year’s day receiving word that they were both alive. . . .

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Tuesday, December 16, 1941, Page 1

2 NORTH IOWANS KILLED IN HAWAII

Mason City’s First, Hancock County First War Deaths Reported

North Iowa’s second and third World war II deaths were reported Tuesday. Both men were sailors and lost their lives in the Pearl Harbor naval engagement.

Guy Wayne Carroll, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Carroll of Lehigh addition, Mason City, is Mason City’s first casualty in the war. Carroll, a quartermaster second class, lost his life aboard the ill-fated destroyer U. S. S. Shaw. He had been in the navy six years.

Wilbur Theodore Smith, son of Mrs. Pearl Smith of Crystal Lake, is Hancock county’s first war casualty. He has been in the navy one year. No report has arrived on his brother, Orian Floyd Smith who was on the same ship. Both were seamen second class.

Cerro Gordo county and North Iowa’s first World war II fatality was Melvin Laskowski, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Laskowski of Sheffield.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Wednesday, December 17, 1941, Page 1

THREE NORTH IOWANS LOSE LIVES in RAID on HAWAII

Two Mason City Youths Among Victims of War
The name of Erwin Leroy Searle was added to the list of North Iowans losing their lives in the Pearl Harbor naval engagement Wednesday.

He was the second Mason Cityan reported killed on the opening day of the Japanese war Dec. 7. Death of Guy Wayne Carroll of Mason City and Wilbur Theodore Smith of Crystal Lake was reported Tuesday.

All three men were sailors in the U. S. fleet stationed in Hawaii.

Carroll was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Carroll of Lehigh addition, Mason City. Carroll, a quartermaster second class, lost his life aboard the ill-fated destroyer U. S. S. Shaw. He had been in the navy six years.

He had served four years in the navy, then spent one year out of the service. Two years ago this coming Feb. 9 he re-enlisted at his former grade and has not been home since.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Wednesday, February 04, 1942, Page 7

Plan Memorial Rites for Carroll

A memorial service for Guy Wayne Carroll, who died at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 in the Japanese attack, is to be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Grace Evangelical church, the pastor, the Rev. G. H. Bamford, announced Wednesday. He said that patriotic organizations in the community have been invited to attend and that Evron M. Karges, boy’s work director of the Y. M. C. A., would pay a personal tribute to Carroll, who had been active in that department before he joined the navy.

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North Iowa Navy Mothers To Attend

North Iowa Navy Mothers club members will attend the memorial service for Guy Wayne Carroll Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Grace Evangelical church, meeting at the church at 2 o’clock.

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D. U. V. Meeting

Daughters of Union Veterans, Dorothy Dix tent No. 42, plan to attend memorial services for Guy Wayne Carroll at the Grace Evangelical church Sunday, meeting at the church at 2 o’clock.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Monday, February 09, 1942, Page 3

GUY W. CARROLL MEMORIAL HELD

Service for Victim at Pearl Harbor Is Held at Local Church

A memorial service for Guy Wayne Carroll, who died at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, in the Japanese attack, was held at the Grace Evangelical church Sunday afternoon, with the Rev. G. H. Bamford in charge.

“To make our tribute to Guy Carroll enduring we need to do our part in making our freedom secure by continually building inward bulwarks,” said the Rev. Mr. Bamford, “by making ours way of life so fine, so noble, so worthy that it would be a supreme tragedy for all time if it should perish from the earth. However, no ideal can perish so long as there are hearts that are steadfast in their devotion to it.

“Our most vital defense consists of citizens translating into daily living the principles of honor and integrity, of justice and brotherhood. Anything which fosters national and racial jealousy and hatred among us is sabotage of the most serious kind.

“. . . Let us strive on to see the right, let us string on to finish the work we are in . . .to do all which may achieve and cherish a jut and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

“To seek a just and lasting peace for all the world when this conflict is ended is to make our tribute to our heroic dead an enduring tribute.”

Evron M. Karges, boys’ work director of the Y. M. C. A., gave a personal tribute to Carroll, who had been active in that department before he joined the navy.

Frank Pool sang “Lead Kindly Light” and “Recessional.” Mrs. Pauline Spencer, chaplain of the North Iowa Navy Mothers club, offered the prayer.

Patriotic organizations of the community attended the services for the Mason City war victim.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Friday, July 09, 1943, Page 7

Carroll Gets Purple Heart; Was Killed at Pearl Harbor

Parents Receive Decoration Friday;
Another Son in Army

A purple heart decoration for wounds received in action has been awarded posthumously to Guy Wayne Carroll, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Carroll, 35 Lehigh addition. He was killed at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. His parents received the medal Friday.

Carroll enlisted in the regular navy in 1935, when he was 17 years old. He was attending Mason City high school at the time. He was stationed in Hawaii during this first period of service. In 1939 he returned to the home of his parents in Mason City and remained until 1940 when he re-enlisted in the navy at his former rating.

He was sent to San Diego where he had received most of his training and rated a quartermaster second class.

Besides his parents, two brothers survive. They are Pvt. Chester Carroll who entered the army last May. He is at San Bruno, Cal. Mearl Carroll, the other brother, is married and lives in Wisconsin.

NOTE: The USS Shaw (DD-373), one of the dry-docked ships at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was hit by three bombs, almost simultaneously, during the second strike attack. As a result of uncontrollable fires, she was ordered to be abandoned. Due to the fire, her forward ammunition magazine exploded which removed her bow and she sank with only her aft portion still afloat.
Source: history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/ph-shw.htm

Transcriptions and note by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2013

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