SIVERLY, JOSEPH S. ? - 1942

SIVERLY, HUNTING, MILLIGAN

Posted By: A.M.W. (email)
Date: 3/25/2009 at 23:28:30

Mt. Pleasant News - May 5, 1945
FORMER TEACHER HERE GIVES LIFE ON OKINAWA
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Siverly of Salem were notified Saturday in a message from the war department that their son, Staff Sergeant, Joseph S. Siverly, Co. C, 7th Infantry U.S. Army, died of wounds received in action on Okinawa on April 16th.

He entered the service on Novembedr 7, 1942 and received his training at Camp Robinson, Arkansas and Ft. Benning, Georgia and served with the seventh infantry division. He had participated in four of the toughest campaigns of the Pacific area. He took part in the occupation of Kiska in the Aleutians, the invasion of the Marshall Islands, Leyte, and then Okinawa. Only a few days ago part of a letter from him was published in the News. In the letter he told of the gardens and fresh vegetables available there rather than of the tough fighting that the men on the island were up against.

St. Sgt. Siverly was grduated from Mt. Pleasant High School in 1935 and from Iowa Wesleyan College. He taught at Donnellson and at the time he entered the service, was a popular teacher at Mt. Pleasant Junior High.

Besides his parents, two sisters, Mrs. Marvin Hunting of south of Mt. Pleasant and Mrs. Violete Milligan of Sperry and a brother, Loren Siverly, of Gladstone, Illinois survive.