CARTER, SSgt. Lloyd Leon, WWII

CARTER, BOWEN, KETCHAM

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 7/14/2016 at 04:54:50

SSgt. Lloyd Leon Carter

SSgt. Carter was serving with the U.S. Army in the 515th Bomb Squadron of the 376th Bomb Group overseas during World War II. He was reported as missing in action over Austria on February 24, 1944. Later he was declared killed in action on February 23, 1944.

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The Leon Journal-Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa (1953)

Funeral for Lloyd Carter

Word was received here by the I. M. Bowen family through Mrs. Frank Ketcham, an aunt of the deceased, that the body of Lloyd Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Carter of Leon, Iowa, is being brought back from overseas for burial. Funeral services are to be held at Leon at the F.S. Stewart and Son Funeral home at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 22. [Interment was made at Leon Cemetery, Leon, Iowa.]

~ Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2015

Decatur County Auxiliary Scrapbook
Submission by Decatur County Historical Museum, Sara Rose Joan LeFleur, June of 2016

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