WILLIAMS:
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Caruth were in Hubbard Saturday at the home of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Murl Bessman. The Bessmans were selling their household goods that afternoon as Mr. Bessman leaves next week for Army service.
Source: Daily Freeman Journal, Saturday, September 18, 1943
WILLIAMS:
Mrs. Murl Bessman is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Caruth for the present. Mr. Bessman left Saturday for Camp Dodge with the Hardin County selectees.
Source: Daily Freeman Journal, Thursday, September 23, 1943
WILLIAMS:
Pvt. Murl Bessman and wife left Tuesday for Clinton where he will take further treatments in Schick hospital and Mrs. Bessman will live in Clinton.
Source: Daily Freeman Journal, Thursday, August 31, 1944
NEWS OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM.
IN HOSPITAL.
Williams—Pvt. Murl Bessman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bessman of Aldin, has returned home from the Italian war zone for treatment in the Schick general hospital at Clinton. He went overseas last February and was wounded on May 10. Since that time he has been in an Army hospital behind the lines, arriving in the United States last week. He visited last weekend in Williams with his wife at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Caruth.
Source: Webster City Freeman, Thursday, August 17, 1944
WILLIAMS:
Pvt. Murl Bessman and wife left last week for Springfield, Mo., where he is taking treatments in an Army hospital for shrapnel wounds, received in Italy, Mrs. Bessman will remain in Missouri through the winter.
Source: Webster City Freeman, October 19, 1944
World War II Bonus Case File
| Name | Murl K. Bessman |
| Birth Date | 19 Jul 1914 |
| Place Birth | Alden, Hardin County, Iowa |
| Married | Clarice Caruth |
| Marr Date | 3 Sep 1935, Mitchell, SD |
| Entered Serv. | 18 Sep 1943, Camp Dodge, IA, from Hardin County. |
| Departed States | 23 Feb 1944 |
| Co. H, 168th Inf. | |
| Returned States | 03 Aug 1944 |
| Honorable Discharge | 05 May 1945 |
Source: ancestry.com
NOTES:
Murl K. Bessman was born July 19, 1914 to Henry Charles and Grace Mary Keller Bessman. He died May 17, 2001 and is buried in the Alden Cemetery, Alden, IA. Pvt. Bessman received shrapnel wounds in Italy in 1944.
Sources: Daily Freeman Journal and ancestry.com
