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Veterans Returned From Battlefield Burial

GOMBERT, SMITH, WILCOX, HAIGHT, BRODERSON, LUETT, STREETS, BOWLING, SANDERS, KETTMANN, REISTROFFER, ABRAMS, DUFFY, KRUMVIEDE, BUDDE, STREETS, HAIAR, SIMMONS, MARVIN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/7/2015 at 08:44:27

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, May 29, 1949

Veterans Returned From Battlefield Burials

Glen F. Bailey, the American Legion's Registrar of Graves, announced that nineteen World War II heroes were returned from battlefield burial grounds. Bodies returned from overseas and the cemeteries to which they were brought, were those of Floyd Gombert, to Andrew cemetery; 1st Lt. Kenneth J. Smith to Sacred Heart cemetery, Maquoketa; Lawrence Wilcox, Gene S. Haight and Lt. Walter Broderson, all to Mt. Hope cemetery, Maquoketa; Robert H. Luett to Buckhorn cemetery; Joseph L. Streets and Kermit Bowling to Streets cemetery; Eldred Sanders to St. John's cemetery, Bellevue; Capt. J. J. Kettmann and Leroy Joseph Reistroffer, to St. Joseph's cemetery Bellevue; Alva Abrams to Esgate cemetery; John Duffy to Temple Hill cemetery; Calvin Krumviede to Reeseville cemetery; Melvin Budde to Springbrook cemetery; Glen M. Streets to Monmouth cemetery; Elvin M. Haiar to Holy Rosary cemetery, LaMotte; and Harold Simmons and Lt. Wayne S. Marvin to Preston cemetery.

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