LYMAN E. CASE

CASE, MOORE

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 5/14/2002 at 22:59:22

Decatur County Journal
Thursday, June 9, l92l

The remains of one of our boys who made the supreme sacrifice in France, LYMAN E. CASE, reached Lamoni, Friday morning, accompanied by Beaucie J. Francouer, of Co. A, 5lst Infantry, Camp Grant, Illinois.

The funeral was held from the brick church Sunday afternoon in charge of the Ralph A. Judson Post of the American Legion, and was carried out in full military style. Music was furnished by a men's quartet in uniform. There was also a solo by Elbert Dempsey. The sermon was by Elder J.F. Garver. A conveyance draped in his country's colors and headed with a miniature airplane designating the branch of service to which he belonged, drawn by six black horses, bore the body, beside and behind which marched his comrades followed by the members of his family and one of the largest if not altogether the largest funeral procession which ever drove to Rose Hill. At the grave the military ritual was carried out in full, Legion boys from Leon, Davis City, Decatur, Kellerton and Bethany were in attendance.

LYMAN EDWIN, son of WARREN E. and JOANNA M. CASE, was born at Nokomis, Ill., Aug. 7, l896, and passed to his reward somewhere in France August l4, l9l8, just one week after his twenty-second birthday.

LYMAN came to Lamoni with his widowed mother, his brother and two sisters at the age of three years. Here he grew to young manhood, graduating from the public schools in l9l4.

He entered the State University in September of the same year, enrolling in the department of Applied Science. Before finishing his course he enlisted in the service of his country in May, l9l7, and was sent to the officers training camp at Fort Snelling, Minn. He was later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps of England, continuing his work of preparation until April 26. After further training in a gunnery school in Scotland, he was sent to the front in France.

LYMAN was a dutiful son and a very companionable lad, a general favorite with his associates, both at home and in the Army.

He was baptized a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at the age of eight years and was faithful in his belief to the end.

His death came southwest of Bruges, near Austend, Belgium. He was on patrol duty, driving a Campbell machine, cooperating with bombers, when they encountered flying six Folker biplanes and one monoplane. A German attacked his plane and as a result, the tail of his plane was torn off and the fusilage broken. The German wing was torn off, and both went down together. They were flying at a height of l4,000 feet.

LYMAN leaves to mourn his immediate family, two sisters, MRS. L.B. MOORE and IDA MAE, of Lamoni, and one brother, DR. C.W. CASE, of Davenport, all of whom were present at the service.

--Lamoni Chronicle

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