CPL Glenn L. Stutsman

STUTSMAN, TROYER, GATTON, WAGNER

Posted By: Misty Christner (email)
Date: 5/10/2018 at 12:03:36

2 Articles from Newspapers 1944

Article #1

Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri

LOCATE MISSING PLANE IN WHICH STUTSMAN FLEW

A telegram received by relatives this week from Col. Wm. McDonald, commandant of the army air field at Clovia, N. M. contained the following information:
"Wreckage of missing plane on which your brother, Sergeant Glenn L. Stutsman, was a crew member, was located ten miles west of Palmer Lake, between Denver and Colorado Springs. It is with extream regret that I must inform you that all members of the crew are dead."
He was a member of the Fellowship Masonic Lodge, No. 549 and the Sharon Evangelical church.
Tech. Sgt. Glenn L. Stutsman, 23, whose body was found with that of the crew and the plane in which they crashed near Denver Colorado was born April 3, 1918 at Sharon Center, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Stutsman.
He graduated from Sharon High School in 1936 and farmed near Wellman until his entry into the army in 1942.
Sergeant Stutsman is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Orville Troyer of Wellman and Mrs. Bruce Gatton of Texas, formerly of Iowa City; and a brother, Karl Stutsman, oversees with the medical corps. His parents preceded him in death, his mother dying in 1920 and his father in 19__. A number of aunts and uncles and cousins in the locality also survive.
Military services will be held at a time to be announced later. Masonic services will also be held.
The body is being shipped by army officials to the Oathout Funeral Home.

Article #2

Services for Cpt. Stutsman Held At Sharon Sunday Afternoon

Furneral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Sharon Evangelical church for Cpl. Glenn L. Stutsman who died February 26, 1944 near Palmer Lake, Colorado in an airplane accident while in the service of his country.
Born April 3, 1918, the son of Charles E. and Clarissa Wagner Stutsman, he lived most of his life at Sharon Center, where he made his home with his uncle, Calvin Stutsman. For a few years prior to his ________, he lived with his father on a farm near ______ until the accidental death of the latter, December 3, 1940. Cpl. Stutsman's mother had died when he was 19 months old.
He was a graduate of Sharon Center High school and attended Iowa State College at Ames. He was a member of the Sharon Evangelical Church and of the Masonic Lodge at Sharon Center. At the time of his death he was a ______ gunner with the U. S. Army Air Force.
Well known and liked by all his acquantances in Sharon, Iowa City, and Wellman, he is survived by a brother, Karl, serving with the U.S. Army Medical Corps somewhere in North Africa; a sister, Evelyn, wife of Pvt. Bruce Gatton, now stationed at Midland Army Air Base, Midland, Texas; a sister, Vivian, wife of Orval Troyer, Wellman and a host of uncles, aunts, relatives and friends.