Lieutenant Ivor Kitterman (1918-1943)

KITTERMAN, SAMPSON, MCCANN, MOWEN, MCLAUGHLIN

Posted By: John Davis (email)
Date: 12/16/2019 at 20:36:30

Obit posted with Ottumwa Courier January 24, 1943
Photo posted with obit
Lieutenant Ivor Kitterman, 24-year-old Army flying instructor, was killed late Sunday in the crash of and Army plane at Victoria, Texas. Lieutenant Kitterman son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Kitterman of 201 West Golf avenue, is the 19th casualty of the war from the Ottumwa community and the second Army flyer to lose his life, the first being Captain, Berl Sampson. The body will be brought to Ottumwa for funeral service and burial according to a telegram received from his wife, Mrs. Doris McCann Kitterman, who he married on October 8, 1942 at Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Active at O.H.S.
Lieutenant Kitterman was born July 7, 1918 and was reared in Ottumwa where he was graduated from Ottumwa high school in 1936. He was active in extracurricular high school affairs and served as business manager of the high school Argus. He was a member of the First Methodist church here. He attended the University of Illinois where he affiliated with Tau Kappa Epsilon social fraternity. Before entering the Army, he was a district sales representative for the DeKalb Hybrid Seed Corn Co. and covered a territory of several midwestern states. Lieutenant Kitterman entered the Army flying service just a little more than a year ago, on January 4, 1942.
Services Friday For Lt. Kitterman
Funeral services for Lt. Iver Kitterman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Kitterman of 201 west Golf avenue who was killed in and Army airplane crash near Victoria, Texas, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Lester Jay funeral home. It will be a Christian Science service with Mrs. Frank Knight of Bloomfield as the reader. Burial will be in the Kitterman cemetery, three miles northeast of Ottumwa. Mrs. A.W. Trautwein will sing, accompanied by Mrs. Iver Carlson at the organ. Pallbearers will be Clarence V. Pool, A.W. Trautwein, Glenn Hazen, A. Hollis Horrabin, Ronald Johnson and Frank Knight. The body was scheduled to arrive here at 3:15 p.m. today, accompanied by Lieutenant Kitterman’s wife, his mother-in-law, Mrs. D.A. McCann, Welsh, Louisiana, and by and Army escort, Lieutenant Talaiko of Victoria field. The body will remain at Jay’s until after the service.
Among the out of town relatives coming for the services are Mrs. Dean Mowen and daughter Janet; Mrs. and Mrs. George W. McLaughlin and son, James; Mr. and Mrs. Irven Kitterman, all of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. George L. Kitterman and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Kitterman, of Toledo, Ohio, and Mrs. Elizabeth McLaughlin of Maryville, Missouri.