Military Involvement
Kenneth Merton Keller was born Sept. 6, 1917 to Louis T. and Bertha D. Buhman Keller. He died Jan. 30, 1942 (FOD) and is memorialized at the Courts of the Missing, Court 3, Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii and has a cenotaph in Harlington Cemetery, Waverly, IA.
Petty Officer Keller served in World War II with the U.S. Navy and was MIA at Pearl Harbor in the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
Source: ancestry.com; abmc.gov
Leonard Carlton Kleinschmidt was born Jan. 23, 1921 to Ruloff August and Elsie Lindner Kleinschmidt. He died Oct. 15, 1942 and is buried in Harlington Cemetery, Waverly, IA.
Leonard served in World War II with the U.S. Army Medical Corps.
Source: ancestry.com
Vernon Louis Koelling was born July 9, 1922 to Louis Heinrich Conrad and Lydia Wilhelmine Langhorst Koelling. He died Sept. 11, 1943 and is buried in Harlington Cemetery, Waverly, IA.
Petty Officer Koelling served in World War II with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) which was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea. He was initially declared MIA and died in a Japanese prison camp.
Source: ancestry.com
ServiceMen Research done by WWII Researcher, Pat Holt Juon, Jul 2019; updated Jul & Sep 2020 & Feb 2024