KENNETH MARIENAU RECEIVES GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL
Headquarters, 13th AAF, Southwest Pacific—On duty for more than twenty-four months, Technician Fifth Grade Kenneth F. Marienau, son of Mrs. Anna C. Marienau, 200 5th Avenue South, LeMars, Iowa, has been presented the Army Good Conduct Medal for “exemplary behavior, efficiency, and fidelity.” He is a munitions worker with a unit of the 13th AAF Service Command, operating in the South and Southwest Pacific.
Corporal Marienau entered the Army in September, 1942, and he served at Barksdale Field, Louisiana, prior to departing overseas.
In civilian life, the soldier was employed as an automobile mechanic. He is a graduate of Athol high school, Athol, South Dakota.
Source: LeMars Sentinel, January 23, 1945
***Further Research:
Kenneth Franklin Marienau was born Dec. 12, 1911 to Bernhardt Henry and Anna Cecelia Ries Marienau. He died May 24, 1980 and is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Ireton, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
