47 Van Buren Men Inducted By Board

ANDERSON, BILLINGSLEY, CANADAY, CANNY, COOK, DAUGHTERTY, DOBYNS, DUNCAN, FARRELL, FRIDLEY, GARDNER, GREENFIELD, HAMBERG, HELLWEG, HOUSE, HUFF, JIRANEK, JOHNSTON, KERR, KLISE, LYON, MCDONALD, MARSH, MARSHALL, MEEK, MILLER, MURPHY, NEU, NEWBOLD, OSWEILER, PAGE, PEDEN, POOL, RANDOLPH, RIDGEWAY, RITZ, SAVAGE, SCOTT, SKIRVIN, SMITH, STECKER, SYFERT, TADE, TAYLOR, VONSEGGEN, WATSON, WILEY, WILSON, WORKMAN

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 2/27/2014 at 10:01:49

47 Van Buren Men Inducted by Board
**Handwritten: May 1941

19 of Group Are Volunteers; 5 Accepted Locally Failed to Pass Final Examination

The Van Buren county selective service board reports that since November the county has furnished 47 young men for induction into the armed forces of the country. Nineteen of these men volunteered to be among the first to begin training. In addition five other men were sent to army induction stations and were rejected there upon final examination.

Listed below are the names as supplied yesterday by the Van Buren county board:

Merle Sherman Miller, Keosauqua, volunteer
David Cecil Cook, Milton, volunteer
Willis Boyd Newbold, Keosauqua, volunteer
Emery Earl Peden, Milton, volunteer
Guy Estyle Marsh, Keosuaqua, volunteer
Lloyd Harold Dobyns, Birmingham, volunteer
Charles Frederick Hellwig, Farmington, volunteer
Roscoe Wayne Marshall, Stockport
Daniel Cheney Greenfield, Douds, volunteer
Walter Elbert House, Farmington, volunteer
Claire Anthony Osweiler, Bonaparte
Edwin William Skirvin, Birmingham
Harold Edgar Meek, Bonaparte
Charley Orin Murphy, Farmington, volunteer
Robert Henry Daugherty, Farmington, volunteer
Edgar Berton Hamberg, Mt. Sterling
Jay Morris Ridgeway, Keosauqua
Harold Dean Stecker, Hillsboro
Phillip Oran Ritz, Selma
Gordon Burdette Huff, Farmington, volunteer
Clarence Raymond Anderson,
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Douds, volunteer
Donald Bryant Tade, Hillsboro, volunteer
Ralph Roscoe Canaday, Birmingham, volunteer
James Emmett Duncan, Birmingham, volunteer
Raymond Robert Lyon, Birmingham, volunteer
Kenneth Vale Kerr, Keosauqua
Harvard Clifton Jiranek, Farmington
Kenneth Gray Gardner, Bloomfield
Paul Chester Farrell, Birmingham, volunteer
LeRoy Harry Taylor, Birmingham, volunteer
Everett George Watson, Stockport
LaVerne Charles Von Seggen, Farmington
Kersey LaVerne Wilson, Milton
Robert Wallis Wiley, Keosauqua
Elliott Samuel Billingsley, Hillsboro
Charles Mathews Page, Stockport
Wayne Hiatt Johnston, Birmingham
Frank Colin Pool, Birmingham
John Armond Smith, Birmingham
Otto George Klise, Hillsboro
Noble William Savage, Keosauqua
Herbert Willis Neu, Farmington
Floyd Blair Scott, Cantril
James Henry Fridley, Selma
R.A. Workman, Stockport
George Paul Randolph, Bonaparte

Sent and rejected:
Theodore Lee Canny, Douds, volunteer
Albert Wilson, Farmington
Yarbrough Lee McDonald, Bonaparte
William Thomas House, Stockport
Harold John Syfert, Keosauqua

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