Lloyd Hayden 1923-1944

HAYDEN, EDWARDS, MCGOVERN

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 3/3/2021 at 07:26:00

22 June 1944 - The Anamosa Journal

Memorial service for Tech. Sergt. Lloyd Ellsworth Hayden was held at Saint Joseph's church, Stone City, Saturday morning, June 10, at eight o'clock.

The Rev. Loras J. Holmberg was celebrant at a solemn Mass of Requiem.

Sergt. Hayden was killed in action in the southwest Pacific war theater in March, 1944. He was born near Anamosa Dec. 9, 1923, son of the late L. E. and Margaret McGovern Hayden.

He was baptized and received his first Holy Communion at Stone City, and attended the rural schools of Jones county and the Viola school.

After the death of his mother in 1938, he made his home on a farm near Iowa City, and attended Saint Patrick's high school in Iowa City.

He enlisted in the Marine corps two days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and took his basic training at the Marine base near San Diego, Calif. He received further training at Chicago, Ill., and was sent overseas in December, 1942.

He saw action in many of the islands in the southwest Pacific, and received commendation by his superior officers as an outstanding man in his group.

Surviving him are his three sisters, Mrs. Neal Edwards, Anamosa; Marjorie and Margaret June Hayden, Iowa City; two brothers, Joseph and Donald Hayden, Viola; and three grandparents, Thomas McGovern, Anamosa, and Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hayden, Viola.