HESLEY, Maitland L. (1924-1945)

HESLEY

Posted By: Hancock Co Genealogical Society (email)
Date: 12/30/2013 at 14:30:54

Sgt. Maitland Hesley, War Victim, Reburied

Britt - Reburial services were held Thursday for Sgt. Maitland L. Hesley at the Osman funeral chapel with the Rev. F. F. Robinson of the Methodist Church officiating.

Sgt. Hesley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hesley of Britt was killed in action in Germany in 1945 and buried in the Henri Chapelle Cemetery in Belgium.

Members of the Dean Welsh post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the American Legion conducted military services and burial was in the Evergreen cemetery at Britt.

source: Mason City Globe Gazette 20 Dec 1947, page 11