Wyatt, Dudley Duane

WYATT, BRAYTON

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 7/7/2015 at 19:02:10

DUDLEY WYATT, LUVERNE, DEAD IN JAPANESE CAMP

LuVerne—Mrs. Fern Wyatt, who lives south of LuVerne, received word Monday of the death of her son, Dudley, in a Japanese prison camp. The young man, who was 25 years of age, had been in the Navy and was a prisoner since the fall of Bataan. He is survived by his mother and three brothers, one of whom, Neal, is the in the Army Air Force. Mrs. Wyatt is a sister of Roy Brayton, LuVerne.

Source: Algona Upper Des Moines, July 22, 1943
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Memorial Rites Held Sunday at Hardy for Dudley D. Wyatt, 23

Memorial services were held at the Methodist church in Hardy last Sunday afternoon for Dudley D. Wyatt, 23, who died in a Japanese prison camp recently, and were largely attended by people from the Hardy-Renwick community.

Rev. E. D. Hart preached the sermon and was assisted by Rev. R. E. Cook. The service was in charge of Harvey McPeak Post of the American Legion of Renwick of which Hardy war veterans are members. Several members of the Jesse F. Gregg Navy Mothers Club from Fort Dodge attended the service. Mrs. Fern Wyatt, mother of the deceased, is a charter member of this club.

Dudley was the son of Mrs. Fern Wyatt of Hardy. He enlisted in the Navy in July 1938 and served in the Philippines until the fall of Corregidor in May 1942. Soon after that he was reported missing and a year later was reported to be a prisoner of the Japanese. Besides his mother, he is survived by three brothers, Brayton and Winston at home, and Neal, who is in the army air corps at Athens, West Virginia.

Dudley held the rating of Seaman first class. His brother Neale from West Virginia and a cousin, Walter Brayton from Camp Lanning, Texas, had short furloughs and were here for the memorial service.

Source: Renwick Times, August 5, 1943
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WYATTS BACK FROM ATTENDING REBURIAL SERVICES OF BROTHER.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wyatt, 962 15th N. E. have returned to Mason City after attending the reburial of Mr. Wyatt’s brother, Dudley Duane Wyatt in the National Cemetery at Little Rock, Ark.

Returning to Mason City with the Wyatts were Mr. and Mrs. Neale Wyatt and family and Mr. and Mrs. Winston Wyatt of Saulte St. Marie, Mich., and Mrs. Fern Wyatt of Fort Dodge, who also attended the services. The Wyatt men are brothers of the deceased and Mrs. Fern Wyatt is their mother.

The Saulte St. Marie families flew back to their homes Wednesday and Mrs. Fern Wyatt sent to her home in Fort Dodge, Thursday.

Source: Mason City Globe-Gazette, April 14, 1950
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Detail from Interment Record:
Interment in the Little Rock National Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas
Disinterred from USAF Cemetery, Manila No. 2, Philippine Islands.
Date of death: Nov. 29, 1942
Date of interment at Little Rock: April 7, 1950