James Edward Boitscha

BOITSCHA, RIPLEY, HESSER

Posted By: Phyllis Hazen (email)
Date: 8/21/2020 at 06:51:50

The Cedar Rapids Gazette
Friday, 12 March 1920, page 8

JOHNSON COUNTY SAILOR DIED ABROAD; BODY HERE

IOWA CITY, March 13. – Another Johnson county hero is dead and sleeps in an Iowa cemetery. James Edward Boitscha, age 25, died of pneumonia in Greece on Nov. 1, 1919, and his body was brought to Iowa, and was laid to rest, from St. Mary’s church, in his birth-town, Nichols. He left Lone Tree, Johnson county, in 1918, after passing all but the war period of the last ten years of his life there. He belonged to the United States navy, and was a second class seaman. Boitscha’s two sisters and two brothers survive – Mesdames Clayton Ripley, S. D., and Everett Hesser, West Liberty, and William Boitscha, Davenport and Frank Boitscha, Rock Island, Ill.

Note: Burial was made in St. Mary's Cemetery in Nichols, Iowa.