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Theodore Roosevelt "Ted" Tucker (1944)

DENHAM, TUCKER

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 6/10/2007 at 18:01:43

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 30, 1944

WINTERSET SAILOR WAS 34 YEARS OLD

Enlisted Last Fall; Leaves His Wife and Two Small Daughters Here

Ted R. Tucker of Winterset, E1.M.1/c in a Seabee battalion of the U. S. Navy has been killed in action against the Japanese somewhere in the southwest Pacific war area, according to a telegram from the navy department received here Monday by his wife.

Tucker had been a resident of Winterset for the past four years and was employed in a construction and maintenance crew of the Northwestern Bell Telephone company. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy in November 1943 and had left for overseas duty this April.

He was 34 years of age. He was born at Columbus Junction on July 6, 1908, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Tucker. He was married July 32, 1934 to Miss Eurain Earll of Washington. They lived in Washington and Ottumwa before coming to Winterset.

He is survived by his wife; and two daughters, 8-year-old Phyllis and 6-year-old Janet, all of Winterset. He also leaves his mother, now Mrs. W. S. Denham of Columbus Junction; and two brothers and a sister at Columbus Junction.
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Coordinator's note: Full name taken from his WWII Draft Registration.

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