Plymouth County

Brownlee Cagley

 

 

 

WAR SERVICE NEWS.

Mrs. Alice Cagley of Kingsley has received word that her son, Brownlee Cagley, has arrived safely in a “foreign port.” He is on convoy duty in the U.S. Navy. Jimmy Cagley has received an army promotion and was transferred from Fort Warren to Bloomington, Ill., for further schooling.

Source: LeMars Globe-Post, August 2, 1943

Brownley E. Cagley was born Dec. 5, 1901 to Walter Ellet and Alice Irene Tibbetts Cagley. He died Aug. 16, 1976 and is buried in Kingsley Cemetery, Kingsley, IA. His son, Robert, also served in World War II.

Source: ancestry.com