CORBESIA, Raymond Joseph 1919-1945

CORBESIA, SNYDER, WALOWAK, MARVIN

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 7/6/2012 at 19:20:30

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Raymond Corbesia
Rites at Faribault
Will Be Wednesday

OSAGE, IOWA — Rites for another Mitchell County war hero, Raymond Joseph Corbesia. will be Wednesday at 10 a. m. at the Faribault. Minnesota, Catholic Church, with burial in the Catholic cemetery there.

The young man was killed in action on Luzon, on January 29, 1945. He was serving with Co. G., 160th infantry.

He was born in February 7, 1919, at Faribault, Minnesota, the son of Emil and Grace Corbesia. In 1925, the family came to a farm in Mitchell County, Iowa, and Raymond attended rural school, and was graduated from Orchard High School in 1938.

He attended Iowa State college, Ames, before induction into the service. January 29, 1941. He trained at Camp Roberts, California, and at other points in California before being sent to the Hawaiian Islands in 1942. Thereafter he was in various Pacific campaigns.

Survivors include his parents; a brother, Floyd, and two sisters, Mrs. Rita Snyder and Mrs. Mabel Walowak, all of Faribault, Minnesota, where the family returned to live in 1942, having resided for a 16-year period in Mitchell County.

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday, October 12, 1948, Waterloo, Iowa]
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Ray Corbesia of Osage Killed in Action on Luzon

OSAGE, IOWA — Staff Sgt. Ray Corbesia, 26, was killed, in action in Luzon, according to word received in Osage Wednesday. The message was telephoned here by Ray's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amil Corbesia who moved from this community to Faribault, Minn., a couple of years ago. Before that the family lived on the Van Fairbrother farm south of Osage.

Sergeant Corbesia was graduate from the Orchard High School where he was an athletic star. He entered the service from this county June, 1941, and had never been home on furlough. He had been in foreign service for more than two years, serving at Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Luzon, where he was with the 40th division, serving with MacArthur.

He is survived by his parents; his brother, Floyd, with the SeaBees, stationed in the south Pacific; his sisters, Mrs. Lester Marvin and Mabel, both at the parental home.

Mr. Marvin was killed in action in Germany last September.

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Thursday, February 22, 1945]

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Information from Findagrave.com:

Birth: Feb. 7, 1919
Death: Jan. 29, 1945

Parents:
Emil J. Corbesia (1896-1971)
Grace M. Corbesia (1897-1972)

Burial:
Saint Lawrence Cemetery, Faribault, Rice County,
Minnesota.

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Caption that was printed with the photo below:

KILLED ON LUZON

S. Sgt, Raymond Corbesia, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Corbesia of Faribault, Minnesota, and a former resident of the New Haven community, as killed in action on Luzon Island in the Philippines, according to word received recently by his parents.

[Mitchell County Press, Osage, Iowa, March 1, 1945]

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