HARDING, Pvt. Mitchell A.
HARDING
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/24/2013 at 18:37:23
The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Friday, March 23, 1945, Page 14MEMORIAL FOR SERVICE MEN SUNDAY
Five members of the armed forces who have given their lives in combat will be honored at the 8th joint public memorial service to be held at Music hall Sunday afternoon at 3:45, with the Rev. Russell Pope, pastor of the Church of the Open Bible, giving the eulogy.
Burial flags given by the United States government will be presented to the next of kin of these 5 servicemen to be thus honored; Salude F. Flores, killed in Leyte; Michael Chimbidis, killed in Luxembourg; Mitchell A. Harding, killed in Germany; Lloyd Phillip Allen, lost on U. S. S. Warrington; and Robert C. Jacobson, killed on Iwo Jima. The Gold Star citation scroll given by the national department of the American Legion will also be presented to those receiving the flags.
The program will open with a 5 minute prologue to be played by Mrs. Roy Servison. Mrs. Harold Wolfe will sing 2 selections with Mrs. Servison at the piano. Company E of the Iowa state guard will furnish the honor guard and firing squad for the day. John Reuber is bugler.
All veteran organizations and their auxiliaries and all other patriotic organizations will attend in a body with their colors. They are requested to be at Music hall at 3:45.
Transcriptions by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2013
Cerro Gordo Obituaries maintained by Lynn Diemer-Mathews.
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