REASLAND, Laurence 1920-1943

REASLAND

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/29/2015 at 17:27:31

LAURENCE REASLAND
KILLED IN ACTION
IN SOUTH PACIFIC

E. A. Reasland received word Tuesday that his son, Laurence, 23, had been killed in action in the South Pacific on July 28, 1943. The word came to a sister, Mrs. Ruth Johnson, with whom Laurence had made his home at Minneapolis, and she notified their father.

Laurence had been in the service for over a year. His father seemed to have a premonition that all was not well with him as he had remarked frequently during recent weeks that he expected to get a notice any time saying he was dead.

The young soldier was born at West Union, Iowa, in 1920, one of a family of 17 brothers and sisters. His mother died in 1927, and later his father remarried. He has also two half-sisters and a half-brother living here. They are Ethel, Clyde and Charlotte.

His other brothers and sisters are: Mrs. Ruth Johnson, Minneapolis, James, at Fayette, Frank, of Iowa City, Billy, Ruth, Alice, Elizabeth, all of Minneapolis, Mary of New York, Grace of Miles City, Illinois, and Raymond of Oelwein. Donald died in infancy.

Two others are in the service, Louis, who enlisted from Chicago, and Joe at Des Moines. Both are across seas and their location unknown at this time.

Billy Reasland lived in Osage a number of years and married Mildred Clayton of Mitchell. With the exception of acquaintances they made on visits home, the other children are not known here.

Source: Mitchell County Press-News, 19 AUG 1943.