November Nuptials Revealed
When friends attended a Halloween party Saturday evening at the home of Mrs. H. C. Boyer, tally cards for the bridge games revealed the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Norma Rose, to Aviation Cadet Harold R. Rockwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rockwell. The bride-elect, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Boyer, and her fiancé, were both graduated from Thomas Jefferson high school. . .
The couple have tentatively set their marriage for the middle of November at Santa Ana, Calif., where Cadet Rockwell is receiving his pre-flight training. . . .
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sunday, October 31, 1943, Page 6
TRANSFERRED
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rockwell, 1738 Avenue E, have received word that their son, Air Cadet Harold Rockwell, has been transferred from the pre-flight school at Santa Ana, to primary training school at Sequoia Field in California.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Friday, December 10, 1943, Page 7
Harold R. Rockwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Rockwell, 1738 Avenue E, has completed his basic flight training at the Marana army air field in Tucson, Ariz., it was announced Friday. Cadet Rockwell attended Thomas Jefferson high school and prior to entering the service was employed by the Union Pacific railroad in Omaha.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Friday, April 21, 1944, Page 7
Lt. Bud Rockwell Killed in Crash
2nd Lt. Harold “Bud” Rockwell was killed in New Guinea in a plane crash, Feb. 19, his wife, Mrs. Norma Boyer Rockwell, 1408 Avenue B, has been informed by the war department.
Lt. Rockwell was graduated June 27, 1944, from his advance flight training course as a pilot at Fort Sumner, N. M. He was graduated from Thomas Jefferson high school in 1940.
Prior to entering the service, Lt. Rockwell was employed in the commissary department of the Union Pacific railroad here.
Besides his widow, he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Rockwell; his brother, Lt. Clarence Rockwell, a transportation officer with the army at Bradley field, Conn.; four sisters, Eileen Rockwell of Baibon, Calif., Katherine, Beverly and Janet Rockwell at home.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sunday, March 11, 1945, Page 11
OBITUARY ~ DIANA LEE ROCKWELL
Diana Lea, 3-day-old daughter of Mrs. Harold R. Rockwell, 1528 Avenue B, died Monday evening at a local hospital. She was the daughter of Lt. Harold R. Rockwell, who was killed in action while serving with the army air corps on New Guinea Feb. 19, 1945. Funeral services will be held in the Beem-Belford chapel Thursday at 11 a. m., the Rev. William Caughlan, pastor of the Holy Family church officiating. Interment will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Friday, June 26, 1945, Page 6
Funerals
Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m., at the Tyler-Rusch chapel for 2nd Lt. Harold R. Rockwell, returned serviceman who was killed in Waa, New Guinea, Feb. 19, 1945.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rockwell, 2001 Avenue B. The Rev. Homer Caskey, pastor of the Church of the Brethren, will officiate. Rainbow Post No. 2 of the American Legion will conduct military rites at the grave in Cedar Lawn cemetery.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sunday, March 04, 1949, Page 6
