News About Men in Service From Over Northeast Iowa
Traer—Rev. and Mrs. B. T. Schwab, of Traer, have received word from their son, Lt. Dwight Schwab, of the Marines, that he recently visited the grave of Lynus Briggs, former Traer high school athlete, at Guadalcanal. Briggs, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Briggs, of Traer, was killed in an airplane accident on that island last Christmas Day. Lieutenant Schwab was a former Waterloo attorney.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, April 23, 1944
Lynus Nelson Briggs was born Mar. 13, 1923 to Harry and Agnes Linden Briggs. He died Dec. 25, 1943 and is buried in Buckingham Cemetery, Traer, IA.
Petty Officer Briggs served in World War II with the U.S. Navy.
Source: ancestry.com
