PLAN MEMORIAL AT JEWELL FOR ARTHUR B. STOUT
Memorial services for Arthur B. Stout, EM 2-c, will be held at the Bethesda Lutheran church in Jewell Sunday, Jan. 13 at 2:30 p.m. Stout had been listed as missing in action by the Navy since November, 1944. His father received word that he had been officially declared dead Dec. 17, 1945, just one week after the death of his mother, Mrs. Swen Stout.
He was last home on leave in April, 1943, after he had been picked up in the Coral Sea as a survivor of the heavy cruiser Chicago. Since then he had been assigned to the Reno and was attached to Task Force 38. The Reno won recognition for its efforts to save the carrier Princeton in the Battle of the Philippines, in October, 1944.
On the night of November 3, 1944 while operating about 300 miles east of Samur Island in the Philippines, the Reno was struck by a Japanese submarine torpedo and badly damaged. The torpedo struck Stout’s sleeping compartment and he was listed as missing Nov. 21, 1944.
The youngest of his family he is survived by his father, Swen Stout of Jewell, six sisters and three brothers. He was preceded in death by his mother, who died Dec. 10, 1945.
Source: Webster City Freeman, Webster City, IA - Jan. 7, 1946
Arthur Burnett Stout, Electrician's Mate, Second Class U.S. Navy - MIA/KIA
Arthur Burnett Stout was born Oct. 22, 1920 to Swen Olai and Inger Marie Omvig Stout. He died Nov. 4, 1945 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery, Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines. He has a cenotaph in the Evergreen Cemetery, Jewell, IA.
Arthur was picked up in the Coral Sea as a survivor of the heavy cruiser Chicago. He was then assigned to the Reno and was attached to Task Force 38. The Reno won recognition for its efforts to save the carrier Princeton in the Battle of the Philippines, in Oct. 1944.
On the night of November 3, 1944 while operating about 300 miles east of Samar Island in the Philippines, the Reno was struck by a Japanese submarine torpedo and badly damaged. The torpedo struck Stout’s sleeping compartment and he was listed as missing Nov. 21, 1944. He was declared dead one year and one day after being declared missing. He was awarded the Purple Heart.
Sources:
Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, IA
ancestry.com
World War II Memorial
