Theodore J. Dunahoo (1933-1952)

BURTON, DUNAHOO, HARRISON, MEDBERRY, WHITE, WOODMAN

Posted By: Dennis and Gail Bell (email)
Date: 8/11/2005 at 19:20:56

DUNAHOO, THEODORE J.
March 16 1933 - February 7 1952

THE MAXWELL TRIBUNE, Maxwell, Iowa, Thursday, February 14,1952, page 1, column 1. “THEODORE J. DUNAHOO RITES. – Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, February 11 at Iowa Center for Pfc. Theodore J. Dunahoo, conducted by Rev. C. E. Lookingbill of Nevada. Theodore J. Dunahoo, youngest son of Leo, and the late Elma Dunahoo, was born March 16, 1933, on a farm near Maxwell, Iwa. He was one of a family of five children. His early boyhood was spent on farms and in Maxwell and Zearing. In 1945 he moved with his family to Des Moines, where he attended grad schools and two years at Lincoln High School. On his seventeenth birthday, March 16, 1950, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and took his basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas. In July, 1950 he was sent to Japan, where he had more training. He landed in Korea in September, 1950, and was badly wounded on November 17, 1950. He was flown back to the United States and spent several months at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. After a forty-five day furlough in January and February, 1951, he was sent back to Camp Atterbury, and from there to Fort Banning (*Benning), Georgia, where on February 7, 1952, death claimed him when a 60 m. m. mortar shell exploded in the barrel of the weapon he was helping to fire during a training exercise. He was 18 years, 10 months and 21 days of age at the time of his death. He leaves to mourn his untimely passing; his father, Leo Dunahoo, of Des Moines, Iowa; two brothers, Floud and Garth Dunahoo, and two sisters, Beverly Burton and Betty Dunahoo, a niece, Donna Burton, and a nephew, Billy Burton, all of Fort Des Moines, Iowa; his grandmother, Mrs. Charlotte Medberry of Fayette, Iowa, and grandfather, Mr. Floyd Dunahoo, of Nevada, Iowa, also many aunts, uncles and cousins. His mother, Elma Dunahoo, preceded him in death in 1949. To know Ted was to love him, and his many friends and boyhood companions join the family in the sorrow brought by his passing. Pall bearers, all first cousins, were Dean and Raymond Harrison, Floyd White, Gene Dunahoo, Forrest Woodman and Carroll Dunahoo. At the service Mrs. Harold Mohler sang “Beyond the Sunset,” “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” and “The Old Rugged Cross: accompanied by Mrs. Jean Dykstra at the piano. The floral tributes were in charge of Anne Severide, Kathryn White, Karen Harrison and Mrs. Kathryn White. The church was filled with relatives, neighbors and friends. Burial was in the Iowa Center cemetery.”

BURIAL: Iowa Historical Library, Des Moines, Iowa. STORY COUNTY, IOWA GRAVE MARKER INSCRIPTIONS Geneal. * F 627. S8 V. 1-6, pages 1-368, V. 7-11 pages 369-792, V. II pages 793-I1128; Indian Creek Township, Inc. Woodland/Iowa Center Cemetery, page 507. SEC. – 1, ROW – 6, LOT – 9. NAME – Pffc Theodore J. DUNAHOO 1933 – 1952 (KOREA).