WHEELDON, Lloyd H. c1919-1949

WHEELDON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 12/12/2011 at 20:00:16

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MCINTIRE SOLDIER
KILLED IN JEEP
ACCIDENT TUESDAY

Pvt. Lloyd H. Wheeldon, 29, of McIntire, Iowa, stationed at Fort Meade, Maryland, was killed Tuesday when the jeep he was driving went of control and swerved off the road near Catoctin Furnace, Maryland.

A Ft. Meade officer said Wheeldon was driving one of six jeeps being transported from Letterkenney ordnance depot at Chambersburg, Pa., to Ft. Meade. The other drivers missed him when they arrived at Frederick and went back to check. They found his body lying in the road on the outskirts of Catoctin Furnace. The Medical Examiner there said he died of internal injuries.

Wheeldon was a veteran of three years' service in Europe during the war.

[ Mitchell County Press, Thur., Jan. 13, 1949 ]
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LAST RITES FOR
MCINTIRE SOLDIER
WEREHELD MONDAY

Funeral services were held Monday morning at the McIntire Methodist Church for Pvt. Lloyd H. Wheeldon, who was killed on Tuesday, January 11, 1949, when he apparently lost control of the jeep he was driving and swerved off the road near Frederick, Maryland. He was a veteran of three years service in Europe during the war and was stationed at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Wheeldon was driving one of six jeeps being transported from Letterkenny ordnance depot at Chambersburg, Pa., to Fort Meade. The other in the convoy missed him when they arrived at Frederick and when they went back to check, they found his body lying in the road on the outskirts of Catoctin Furnace. He died of internal injuries.

Pvt. Lloyd H. Wheeldon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Wheeldon of McIntire. He received his education in the McIntire public school. He attended the Baptist Sunday School throughout his youth. Lloyd spent his life in McIntire until the time of entering the service.

He enlisted in the service on October 8, 1940, and was inducted immediately. He spent the first 14 months at Fort Des Moines and then went to Fort Riley, Kansas, from where he left for overseas service. He went first into the African and Tunisian theatres and was in Italy at the time of their surrender. He was returned home and honorably discharged at Fort Sheridan and later reenlisted.

Lloyd received the American Defense Services Ribbon, European-African Middle Easternb Ribbon, one silver battle star and five overseas serice bars.

Surviving are his father and mother; brother, Robert, in the U.S. Navy of Alameda, California; several aunts, uncles and cousins.

Burial was at Marshalltown in the Riverside cemetery with full military honors by the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. An escort accompanied the body from Maryland.

Mitchell County Press. January 20, 1949