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Source: Cedar Rapids Evening
Gazette Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa October 25, 1918
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FAIRFAX SOLDIER KILLED IN ACTION FRANK PETRIK IS SLAIN
Was First Man From Nearby Town to Lose Life in Conflict
Against the Hun.
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The first soldier from Fairfax to lose his life in the service is
Private Frank J. Petrik, who was killed in action in France Sept. 26.
Word to this effect was received Wednesday by his sister, Mrs. Gifford
Tow, ? Eighth Avenue. Private Petrik had been in the service five
months and had been in France two months with Co. K, 357th Inf. He
would have been 26 years old November 10. Practically every resident of
Fairfax had sent him a post card to reach him on the same date as near
his birthday as possible, which he will never receive. He is survived
by his mother, Mrs. Louis L. Petrik of Fairfax, six sisters, Mrs. Tow
and Mrs. Edward Sears of this city, Mrs. Frank Boland, Mrs. George
Story, and Miss Blanche Petrik of Fairfax, and Mrs. Harry Metzger of
Rowley, Iowa, one brother William, is in the service at Camp Pike, Ark. |
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