William Merlin Montgomery was born Sept. 26, 1917 to John Albert and Maude Edith Holliday Montgomery. He died Jan. 10, 1944 and is buried in Promise City Cemetery, Promise City, IA.
Sgt. Montgomery served with the U.S. Army Battery D, 817th AAA Automatic Weapons Battalion, Camp Haan, CA. during World War II. He died as the result of a motorcycle accident near Pomona, CA.
Source: ancestry.com
