Mrs. DIMMITT in Gold Star Trip - 1930

DIMMITT

Posted By: Debbie Truitt (email)
Date: 5/2/2016 at 07:26:18

Article From “Ottumwa Courier,” Ottumwa, Iowa, March 24, 1930:

MRS. DIMMITT IN GOLD STAR TRIP

FAIRFIELD WOMAN TO VISIT GRAVE OF SON IN FRANCE.

Fairfield, March 24.–Mrs. Frank DIMMITT, 609 South Fourth street, Fairfield, will be the only representative Jefferson county will have on the Gold Star Mothers’ pilgrimage to the cemeteries of France in May.

Mrs. DIMMITT has accepted the invitation of the United States government to be a guest on this pilgrimage, the members of which expect to stand by the graveside of their hero sons and fathers and husbands on Memorial Day.

Mrs. DIMMITT has completed the preliminary arrangements for the trip and received word from Washington that she will be assigned room on the steamship George Washington, which will sail from New York on May 21. She will visit the grave of her son, Clifford E. DIMMITT, a member of Company M, 168th division, whose death occurred on September 13, 1917 [sic-should be 1918]. He now rests in the American cemetery at St. Michiel [sic], 1233 Thianscourt, Meuhthe-et-Mosselle [sic].

Clifford DIMMITT, known among his chums here as “Happy,” left his classes in the Fairfield high school to go with Company M and was sent to France. He was one of the half dozen boys of this county to be killed while in active service.