Max Arnold Sommerlot was bon May 31, 1922 to Francis Merl “Merl" and Margaret Eliza Harper Sommerlot. He died Dec 18, 1944 and is buried in Bethel Grove Cemetery, Albion, IA.
Lt. Sommerlot served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps and died in the service of his country in a mid-air collision on the Pacific coast.
Source: ancestry.com
