Iowa Honor Roll
These Iowans, like those pictured here on previous Sundays, have given their lives for their country. They were fatally wounded in combat or died in prison camps. The fourth line under each name designates the war area in which the man last served.
Source: The Des Moines Register, Sunday, March 5, 1944 (33 photos included)
Last Rites Planned for Sgt. Tuttle
Memorial services for Sgt. Clyde A. Tuttle, 23, whose body will arrive at 10:55 p.m. tomorrow at Kearns Garden chapel after being shipped here from Italy, where he was killed in action [October 21 1943], will be Wednesday at the funeral home.
The rites are planned for 1:30 p.m. and burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Officiating will be Rev. Leo Porter, pastor of First Christian church, Amvets post in Waterloo will perform military rites.
Sergeant Tuttle was born at Lake View, Ia., Jan. 5, 1920, and had lived in Waterloo since he was 9 months old, graduating from East Waterloo high school in 1938.
He left Waterloo with the national guard company in 1941 for Camp Claiborn, La. In January, 1942, he went to Ireland, thence through the African campaign and then to Italy, where he was killed in action Oct. 21, 1943.
He was a member of Company D, 133rd Infantry, 34th division, and is the first to have been returned for reburial from that division.
Pallbearers will include men of the company with who he left.
Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Tuttle, 411 Almond street; two sisters, Mrs. Dale Elliott, 909 Wisconsin street, and Mrs. James Cheney, Chicago, and his maternal grandfather, T. H. Carnine, Newell, Ia.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, IA, Sunday, October 10, 1948, Section Two, Page 22
DEATHS
SGT. CLYDE A. TUTTLE
Funeral services for Sgt. Clyde A. Tuttle, 23 at the time of his death on Oct. 21, 1943, when he was killed in action in Italy, will be conducted Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in Kearns Garden chapel by Rev. Leo G. Potter, pastor of Central Christian church. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Amvet Post No. 19 will be in charge of military rites. Sergeant Tuttle was returned here for reburial from an Italian cemetery.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, IA, Sunday, October 12, 1948, Page 2
Mrs. Tuttle Is Head of Gold Star Mothers
Mrs. Clyde Tuttle, 411 Almond street, was installed as president of the Gold Star Mothers at a meeting Tuesday evening at the YWMC.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, IA, Wednesday. January 10, 1951, Page 11
