Pvt. Thomas E. Edwards (1912-1944)

EDWARDS, EGANHOUSE, OHARA, KEHOE

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 3/12/2010 at 20:36:56

Maquoketa Community Press, November 16, 1944

Pvt. Tom Edwards Killed In Action

Word has been received from the War Department by Mrs. Thomas Edwards of Monmouth, that her husband, Pvt. Thomas E. Edwards, was killed in action on August 31, 1944, in France.

Pvt. Edwards was born on April 28, 1912, at Wyoming, Iowa, and graduated from the Monmouth High School, and attended Loras College, Dubuque. Most of his life was spent in the Monmouth community where he was engaged in farming with his brother.

On April 7, 1942 he was united in marriage with Miss Virginia Eganhouse of Monmouth. The home was made in Davenport where Pvt. Edwards was engaged in defense work until his induction in the Army on November 27, 1942. He was sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky in the Armored Division. After fifteen months he was sent to Fort George Meade, Maryland, later to an embarkation station in New York, from which he was sent to England and from there to France.

Word was received on September 18, 1944, that Pvt. Edwards was missing in action since August 31st, and on November 8th a telegram was received that Tom had been reported killed since August 31, 1944.

Survivors besides his wife are two children, Constance Ann, two years old and Thomas, Jr., six months old, who has never seen his father, his mother, Mrs. Anna L. Edwards, one brother Joseph, and two sisters, Mrs. Helen O’Hara of Wyoming, and Mary Catherine Kehoe, of Hopkinton, and seven nieces and nephews.

A requiem high mass will be held at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Baldwin, November 18, at 9:30 a.m. by Rev. E. A. Kurth.

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