WOODBURY COUNTY. IOWA
Memory Monday
In Honor of Our Recent Gold Star Heroes
They died last month for you and me;
They gave their lives to keep us free.
Today, the flag they carried high,
At half-mast o'er our land does fly
In sorrow and solemnity;
In tribute and in memory.
~ The Sioux City Journal-Tribune, August 7, 1944
Search on this website for these Roll of Honor Servicemen individual pages. See the link below:
Serviceman Surname Index link
The Sioux City Journal-Tribune, Monday, August 7, 1944
Names from the August 7, 1944 Memory Monday Gold Star Heroes
Name | Rank | Loca at time of death |
Donald W. Hess | Lieut. | Germany |
Stanley B. Kamm | S/Sgt. | Italy |
Norman C. Arnold | Lieut. | Central Pacific |
Jack Greenberg | Lieut. | Brazil |
Duane R. Cory | France | |
Rene B. Yockey | Pvt. | Saipan |
Curtis F. Pullen | Lieut. | South Pacific |
Virgil Lowell Stelck | Sgt. | Germany |
William Donald Hearn | Lieut. | Nebraska |
Stephen S. Adams, jr. | Capt. | New Guinea |
William David | Sgt. | Colorado |
Maurice T. Hurtt | Ph. M. | South Pacific |
William D. Thompson | Pfc. | New Guinea |
Vernon C. Tanberg | Pvt. | Italy |
Arnold W. Erickson | M/Sgt. | New Guinea |
Robert Eugene Kennedy | Lieut. | Berlin |
The Sioux City Journal-Tribune, Monday, January 1, 1945
Names from the January 1, 1945 Memory Monday Gold Star Heroes
Name | Rank | Loca at time of death |
Ivan Heath | Pvt. | Germany |
Joseph C. Scott | Sgt. | France |
William J. Cochran | S/Sgt. | European area |
Edgar R. Brant | Pvt. | France |
Burrel Gilmore | S/Sgt. | Germany |
Vernard L. Johnson | Sgt. | Germany |
George O. Winkler | Pfc. | Germany |
George Rosenow | Lt. | France |
Laverne L. Robinson | Pvt. | France |
Henry W. Robinson | Pvt. | Camp Fannin, Tex. |
Mike Steen | Pfc. | France |
Richard L. Small | Pfc. | France |
Robert W. Cochrane | Radioman 3c | Gilbert Islands |
Jack Weldon Coe | Seaman 1/c | Gilbert Islands |
Jack Delfs Norton | Seaman 2/c | South Pacific |
Carl Edwin Carlson | Seaman 1/c | South Pacific |
Stanley Stevenson | Flight Officer | Raleigh, N.C. |
Kenneth Kean | Seaman 1/c | Pacific War Zone |
James C. Hagan | Seaman 2/c | San Diego, Cal. |