Roy Wesley NEWMAN

NEWMAN, JESS, LEEPER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/7/2014 at 15:15:06

May 11, 1922 --- December 6, 1944

Military Rites for Pfc. Newman

Military services will be held here on Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Foster's funeral home for Pfc. Roy Wesley Newman, who died during World War II. The body is expected here Tuesday morning. The Rev. J. P. Mahan will officiate and burial in Graceland cemetery.

Roy Wesley Newman was born May 11, 1922 on a farm in Wright county. In 1929 he moved with his parents to Webster City and attended the Webster City schools. He entered the service Jan. 17, 1941, receiving his training in Des Moines and California. He was sent to the Philippines for active duty and was taken prisoner on Corregidor May 11, 1942. He was held prisoner at Camp 11 in the Philippines and was later transferred to Osaka, Japan, where he was working in the mines and was killed in an explosion Dec. 6, 1944.

He is survived by his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Newman of Webster City, one sister, Mrs. Marion (Shirley) Leeper of Webster City; a brother, Stanley E. of Woolstock; another brother, Robert Neil of Webster City; a half-brother, Larry Jess, of Webster City. He was preceded in death by his mother, who died in 1936. He attended Sunday school and church services at the Nazarene church in this city.

Daily Freeman-Journal - Webster City, Iowa
October 25, 1948