Minutes Of The Sioux County Draft Board Meeting Of December 9, 1942
As announced last week in the News the draft board of Sioux County will publish all minutes of their meetings for public inspection. At their meeting last week Wednesday, Dec. 9, they classified and handled 117 names, meeting long past midnight.
38 Men In Class 1-A
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Franken, Everett G.
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Source: Sioux Center News Dec. 17, 1942 p 1
Everett G. Franken who has been working on camp construction at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, left there Wednesday to return to Sioux Center.
Source: Sioux Center News Dec. 31, 1942 p 4
Another Large Group Will Take Army Examinations
91 Sioux County Men To Take Exams On January 12, Will Be Granted A Seven-Day Furlough
The following named registrants have been ordered to report for Army examination on January 12th, 1943. If they are found to be qualified for army service, they will return for a week’s furlough before being called for active duty:
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2093: Everett G. Franken, Spirit Lake, Idaho
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Source: Sioux County Index Jan 7, 1943 p 1
55 Men Pass Physical Exam, and Sworn In
Out of the 88 men that went to Omaha Tuesday for final physical examination, 55 passed and were sworn in. They will report for duty on Wednesday, January 20.
The other 33 were rejected, except 4 who were held over for observation. The following 55 were sworn in and are now home for a 7-day furlough:
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Everett G. Franken
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Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 14, 1943 p 5
55 Left For Service Wednesday, Jan. 20
Out of the 88 men that went to Omaha Tuesday for final physical examination, 55 passed and were sworn in. They left for army duty on Wednesday, January 20.
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Everett G. Franken
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Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 21, 1943 p 6
MEN CLASSIFIED BY LOCAL BOARD
The following classifications of selective service registrants, as of the minutes of the board of January 20, are announced by the Sioux County Local Board:
Class 1-C
(Inductions): …..; Everett G. Franken, Sioux Center; …..
Source: Hawarden Independent, Feb. 4, 1943 p 2
Everett G. Franken
1128 Tech. School Sq., Flight 368
A.A.F.T.T.C.
Basic Training Center No. 9
Miami Beach, Florida
Feb. 2, 1943
Dear Editor: Before I left, you requested that I should write you, letting you know where we are and what we are doing. Have a few minutes to spare this evening so I’ll take time out to fulfill your request.
We are stationed (I say we because some of my Sioux Center friends are with me) at an army air corps basic training center on Miami Beach, Fla. Being assigned to a branch of the army air corps is the best thing that could have happened and is just what I had hoped for. We are living in hotels and apt. hotels, our hotel is about one block from the beach. My stay at Miami Beach is as a vacation. I’m enjoying every minute of it, food here is fair, but say Ed you can tell the creamery to send us a little gift, we called it butter back home, haven’t seen any as long as we’ve been here. The climate is perfect, we do our marching in the sweat of our brow – whew! It isn’t going to be long till we’ll have a perfect suntan.
We started our 18 day basic training period today – only 17 more days left, what a comfort, well it isn’t bad though and up till now I get a big kick out of army life, enjoying it very much and hoping that everyone else in the service can say as much.
Today is a day I will long remember, this morning we went to the drill grounds and drilled and this afternoon we were called upon to take part in the parade. They have a parade here every day and as we only had a few instructions on drilling you can imagine we were rather awkward on the parade grounds. But we did our best and came through with a first place. There were about fifteen hundred men on parade divided into four groups, it is a thrilling experience and a sight you and all of Sioux Center Community would like to see, I’m sure. The band played The Star Spangled Banner, also the army corps song as we sang and whistled.
Henry Franken is staying in the same room as I, he bunks right above me. Once in a while at night I hear planes roaring down at us, and in a half awake daze I scare and think we are having an air raid, but lo and behold it is only Henry snoring to beat the cars. I have also learned a few things about cleaning up a room, our room was the first one to be credited with an excellent. You know when I was home I always helped my mother with dishes, make beds and sweep and scrub floors, now you think I’m kidding, don’t you, well, I’m sorry to say I am. So here is a little advice to some of you fellas that think you may have to join us sometime and to you wives and mothers, get these men out and make them do a few of these things, it will come plenty handy. Get them used to the dishpan and soap for the sake of their hands, because when I was at Camp Dodge I was on K.P. duty and I’m not kidding when I say I had dishpan hands – Boy, oh boy!
Well I think I’ll close now because its bedtime for me as I have to get up at three-thirty tomorrow morning to go on a two hour guard duty. Hope to receive the News soon as I am interested in knowing what is going on as you are keeping the home fires burning. Sincerely yours,
Everett G. Franken
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 11, 1943 p 9
22 Boys In Armed Forces From 7 Local Families
Six Sioux Center families have three boys in the U. S. Armed Forces, and one family has four boys serving their country.
Mr. and Mrs. Arie Franken have son Joe in the navy, Henry and Everette in the army. Joe enlisted in the Navy the day after Pearl Harbor and has been in action in the Solomons.
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Schiebout have three sons in the army, Abe, Joe, and Ferdinand. Mr. and Mrs. John Vogel have three sons in the army, Harry, LeRoy, and William.
Lester, Peter and Marvin Van Muyden, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Case Van Muyden are all in the army. Lester has been overseas for many months, located in Australia.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Mouw have two sons in the army, Lawrence and Steven, and Harold is in the navy.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit H. Franken have three sons in army, Louis, Dries and Everett.
The John Kroon family is represented by four sons in the service, three of whom are overseas. Richard and Bert are in the army, now in North Africa, Henry John is on the sea, a member of the U. S. Navy, and Billy is still at Gt. Lakes Naval Station.
There are undoubtedly more families who have three sons in the service and the News would be pleased to know them.
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 18, 1943, p 10
A very nice picture of four local boys stationed at Miami Beach, Fla., was sent to the editor by Bert Dykhuisen reaching here Monday morning. Included in the picture were Everett Franken, John De Goei, Henry Franken, and Bert Dykhuisen. The picture will be published in next week’s issue of the News.
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 25, 1943 p 10
Four Local Boys At Miami Beach, Florida
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Here are four of Sioux Center’s local boys who are stationed in Miami Beach, Florida. All four of them left here in January to serve their country. There are a good many other Sioux Center boys there, several of them having completed their basic training, and already have been transferred forward. Here are their names: John De Goei, Everett Franken, Henry Franken, and Bert J. Dykhuisen.
Source: Sioux Center News Mar. 4, 1943 p 1
Change of Address:
Pvt. Everett Franken
Class No. 87
615 City Park Ave.
New Orleans, La.
Everett is going to school now, taking a twelve-week course in airplane mechanics at the above address.
Source: Sioux Center News Mar. 4, 1943 p 10
Pfc. Everett G. Franken has this new address: Class No. 87, 615 City Park Ave., New Orleans, La.
Source: Sioux Center News Apr. 1, 1943 p 10
Cpl. Everett G. Franken has graduated from his course of training in the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command at Detroit and will now be transferred to an Army Air Force Unit where he can use his newly acquired skill as an aircraft technician. Everett has been in the armed forces 8 months. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit H. Franken.
Source: Sioux Center News Aug. 26, 1943 p 10
Cpl. Everett Franken arrived at the parental Gerrit Franken home on Wednesday evening to spend a short furlough with them before leaving for his new base at Salt Lake City, Utah. He has just graduated from the Army Air Force Technical training command at Detroit, Mich., and will leave for Utah on Saturday.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 2, 1943 p 7
Cpl. Everett G. Franken, 37470059, has been transferred to Kearns, Utah. After his recent furlough from Detroit, he was transferred to Salt Lake City, and is now moved to a station about a hundred miles or so out of Salt Lake City, with this address: 762nd Squad, 460th Bomb Group, Army Air Base, Kearns, Utah.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 23, 1943 p 2
In Mule Pack
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CPL. LOUIS G. FRANKEN
Cpl. Louis G. Franken entered the service in May 1942. He is in the mule pack stationed at Camp Carson, Colorado. He has had one furlough in Dec. 1943. His address is:
H.S. Btry. 609 F. A. Bn.
APO 360
Camp Carson, Colorado
Tank Division
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CPL. DRIES FRANKEN
Cpl. Dries Franken entered the service in Dec. 1942. He is in the tank division. Dries left the states in Dec. 1943 and is now in England.
Air Corps Ground Crew
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SGT. EVERETT FRANKEN
Sgt. Everett Franken entered the service in Jan. 1943. He is in the ground crew of the army air force. He has just been sent overseas recently. His parents have not heard as yet where he is. He was promoted to a Sgt. instead of Lieut. as stated in last week’s issue of the News.
Pictured here are the three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit H. Franken of Sioux Center, two of whom are overseas.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 20, 1944 p 1
Cpl. Everett Franken, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Franken of Middleburg writes his parents that he is being kept very busy repairing airplanes in Italy where he is with ground crew of the army air corps. He has been in Italy since the early part of January.
Source: Sioux Center News July 27, 1944 p 2
Master Sergeant
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M. Sgt. EVERETT G. FRANKEN
Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit H. Franken recently heard from their son Everett who is in Italy that he had been promoted to Master Sergeant, and while the promotion was all right it entailed considerable responsibility. Everett has been overseas a little over a year now.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 11, 1945 p 10
Everett G. Franken writes from Italy
Dear Friends: Jan. 2, 1945
Should have written you long ago, but I’m mighty good at putting things off till tomorrow, just ask my mother and father.
I’m thanking everyone for what they’ve done for me in the past year, friends and neighbors for all their wonderful and always welcome letters and cards, also the gifts they sent me at Christmas, the business girls for their gifts and the Civic Club for the letters they sent from time to time; thank you, every one.
I’ve been getting the News right along and now that you are sending it first class, I think I’ll get it a little more regular, it has at times been very irregular. Thanks very much for the paper it does one a great deal of good to be able to keep track of what goes on round about the old hometown and above all I like to read as to where the rest of the service men and women are serving, thanks and keep sending it. I hope and know that everyone else is wishing the same, that all this can soon be discontinued. Thank you everybody.
I’m still in Italy, fussing over one of these Liberator Bombers trying to do my share in keeping it flying. It’s quite a job once in a while, but I think we manage to keep it there fairly well.
Best wishes and a happy and prosperous New Year. God bless and rest your weary hearts and minds in these trying times.
Everett G. Franken
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 18, 1945 p 2
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to extend my appreciation to all of you with whom we did business while we operated the corn sheller in the Sioux Center vicinity. Since it was sold, I would like to take this means of thanking you for the business in the name of the Franken Brothers.
M. Sgt. Everett G. Franken
(now in overseas service)
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 25, 1945 p 5
Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Franken have two new addresses from their sons this week. M/Sgt. Everett G. Franken, Lne. Engr., 1155th A.A.F. B.U., APO 619, c/o Postmaster, Miami, Florida. Everett is in South America at present. Gerrit Henry Franken, Naval Training and Distribution Center, Shoemaker, Calif. The latter just completed his boot training at Great Lakes.
Source: Sioux Center News July 5, 1945 p 2
(excerpt from article about Gary Verrips)
“The only boys he met from home were Everett G. Franken, electrician, and Gary Vander Berg whom he met when he was enroute home.”
Source: Sioux Center News July 5, 1945 p 1
HOME FROM SOUTH AMERICA
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M/SGT. EVERETT G. FRANKEN
M/Sgt. Everett G. Franken arrived in Miami, Florida last week from South America where he has been stationed since shortly after V -E Day. Everett is crew chief on a B-24. He is expected home this week.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 27, 1945 p 2
Draft Board
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Minutes of October 16, 1945
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Discharges include ….., Everett Franken, …..
Source: Sioux County Capital Oct. 25, 1945 p 1
WWII Bonus Case Files; Claim No. 183365
Everett G. Franken was born May 1, 1915, at Sioux Center, Iowa, which was where he was living prior to entering the Army Air Force at Fort Crook, Nebraska on Jan. 20, 1943. He served with the 1155th AAF Base Unit, left for overseas duty on Jan. 13, 1944, and returned to the States on September 20, 1945. Everett was honorably discharged on Oct. 1, 1945. His application for bonus pay was filed on June 20, 1949, for which he received $400.00.
Source: ancestry.com
Everett Gerrit Franken was born May 1, 1915 to Gerrit Henry and Gertie Bosch Franken. He died Jan. 26, 1994 and is buried in Memory Gardens Sioux Center Cemetery, Sioux Center, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
