LICHTSINN, Charles Herman 1918-1943

LICHTSINN, EGGENA, UHLENHOPP, KLUNDER

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Date: 9/7/2011 at 14:28:20

Charles Herman Lichtsinn 1918-1943

RITES PLANNED AT ROCKFORD FOR VICTIM OF TANK ACCIDENT
LICHTSINN, KILLED AT CAMP CHAFFEE, LEAVES BRIDE OF TWO WEEKS.

Rockford – The bod of Charles Herman Lichtsinn, 25, who was killed in a tank accent at Camp Chafee, Arkansas, Tuesday, was placed aboard a train at Camp Chaffee Thursday afternoon, for Rockford, where funeral services have tentatively been set for Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Rockford American Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Walter Fritschel of Charles City officiating.

A brief service will be held at the Harm Eggena home at 21 o’clock. Ivan C. Walker Post American Legion, will have charge of military rites. Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery.

He was born April 5, 1918, on a farm near Little Rock, and came to Rockford with his mother and brothers and sister in 1922. His father died in 1920. He was graduated from the Rockford High School in 1935 and had been engaged in farming with his step-father, Harm Eggena, two miles northeast of Rockford.

On December 19, 1942, he was inducted into the U.S. Army of Des Moines and sent to Camp Chaffee, Arkansas, where he served with a tank corps. On April 16, 1943, he was married to Miss Phyllis Lines, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed lines of Rockford, and had just returned to Camp Chaffee April 18, after a brief honeymoon trip.

Surviving are his widow, his step-father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Harm Eggena, one sister, Mrs. George Uhlenhopp, Dumont; Two brothers; Bill and George Lichtsinn, Nora Springs; one half-brother; Harm Eggena, Jr.; two half-sisters; Maye and Helen Eggena, Greene; Rudolph Eggena, Clar, S. Dakota; and Albert Egena, Camp Chaffee, Arkansas; and one step-sister; Mrs. Vernon Klunder, Cherokee.

Mason City Globe Gazette, Thursday April 29, 1943