Hilsabeck, Herbert Edward (1910-1949)

HILSABECK, CURREY, GORSUCH, KIRKOFF, HEAD

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Date: 10/24/2014 at 15:32:26

Times Republican
Marshalltown, IA [10-31-1949] p. 6

HERBERT HILSABECK, NATIVE OF LISCOMB, DIES IN LOUISIANA

Liscomb---(Special)---Word was received in Liscomb Sunday night of the death of Herbert Edward Hilsabeck in Reeves, La. He had been in poor health since receiving injuries at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, but death was unexpected following a heart attack. Mr. Hilsabeck was born on April 10, 1910, on a farm west of Liscomb. After his mother died when he was eight years old, he made his home with his aunt Nettie Patton, at Bethel Grove. He enlisted in the navy and was discharged on July 9, 1928. During World War II, he went to Wake Island in the Pacific ocean to work as a carpenter in the building of barracks and hangars at the air base there. He was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, expecting to return to Wake Island the next morning when the attack occurred. He received schrapnel wounds and was hospitalized for a month before being returned to the United States. Survivors include the widow, Thelma, of Reeves; a daughter by a former marriage, Edith Faye of Bethel Grove; the father, Fin Hilsabeck, Liscomb; a brother, Melvin Hilsabeck, Bethel Grove; and three sisters, Mrs. Minnie Currey, Mrs. Edna Gorsuch, and Mrs. Nettie Kirkoff, off of Marshalltown. Melvin Hilsabeck, Edith Faye Hilsabeck, Mrs. Currey and a cousin, Tom Head, of Bethel Grove left Sunday night to attend the services at Reeves.