Services For Lt. Mathews Here Monday
The body of Second Lt. George M. Mathews, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Mathews, 311 Twelth street south, is to arrive in Wisconsin Rapids under military escort at 6 o'clock Saturday morning for reburial in Calvary cemetery. Services will be held at 9 o'clock Monday morning at SS. Peter and Paul Catholic church with the Rev. C. W. Gille officiating, and military rites are to be conducted by Buckley-Baldwin Post 2534, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Lieutenant Mathews lost his life while piloting a B-26 bomber over France on January 20, 1945. He had entered the service in January, 1941, serving for two years as supply clerk at Keesler Field, Miss. After receiving training at Moorehead, Minn, and went overseas in August of that years, serving one month in England before moving on to France. He was born at Spring Lake, Minn., on June 21, 1920, the family moving to Wisconsin Rapids when he was five years old. He attended SS. Peter and Paul Catholic school and was graduated from Lincoln High school in 1938. Besides his parents he is survived by six brothers, William, John, and Frank Jr., all of Wisconsin Rapids; Maurice and Donald, at home, and Thomas, with the 11th air force in Japan, and one sister, Mrs. Homer Isaac, Wichita Falls, Tex. Prayers will be said at 7:30 Sunday evening at the Krohn and Berard Funeral home. (Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, Friday, November, 12, 1948, p. 1, Col. 6)
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Army Service No. (ASN): #O782318
George M. Mathews is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Wood County, Wisconsin.
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***I would like to thank Jonelle Find A Grave ID 46903714 for adding her photo of George to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Keith Find A Grave ID 46875326 for adding his gravesite photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Anita A. Find A Grave ID 48751272 for updating the death date information on this memorial***
The body of Second Lt. George M. Mathews, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Mathews, 311 Twelth street south, is to arrive in Wisconsin Rapids under military escort at 6 o'clock Saturday morning for reburial in Calvary cemetery. Services will be held at 9 o'clock Monday morning at SS. Peter and Paul Catholic church with the Rev. C. W. Gille officiating, and military rites are to be conducted by Buckley-Baldwin Post 2534, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Lieutenant Mathews lost his life while piloting a B-26 bomber over France on January 20, 1945. He had entered the service in January, 1941, serving for two years as supply clerk at Keesler Field, Miss. After receiving training at Moorehead, Minn, and went overseas in August of that years, serving one month in England before moving on to France. He was born at Spring Lake, Minn., on June 21, 1920, the family moving to Wisconsin Rapids when he was five years old. He attended SS. Peter and Paul Catholic school and was graduated from Lincoln High school in 1938. Besides his parents he is survived by six brothers, William, John, and Frank Jr., all of Wisconsin Rapids; Maurice and Donald, at home, and Thomas, with the 11th air force in Japan, and one sister, Mrs. Homer Isaac, Wichita Falls, Tex. Prayers will be said at 7:30 Sunday evening at the Krohn and Berard Funeral home. (Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, Friday, November, 12, 1948, p. 1, Col. 6)
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Army Service No. (ASN): #O782318
George M. Mathews is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Wood County, Wisconsin.
***I would like to thank mokennehan Find A Grave ID 47119719 for creating this memorial in addition to adding the obituary to it***
***I would like to thank Jonelle Find A Grave ID 46903714 for adding her photo of George to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Keith Find A Grave ID 46875326 for adding his gravesite photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Anita A. Find A Grave ID 48751272 for updating the death date information on this memorial***
Services For Lt. Mathews Here Monday
The body of Second Lt. George M. Mathews, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Mathews, 311 Twelth street south, is to arrive in Wisconsin Rapids under military escort at 6 o'clock Saturday morning for reburial in Calvary cemetery. Services will be held at 9 o'clock Monday morning at SS. Peter and Paul Catholic church with the Rev. C. W. Gille officiating, and military rites are to be conducted by Buckley-Baldwin Post 2534, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Lieutenant Mathews lost his life while piloting a B-26 bomber over France on January 20, 1945. He had entered the service in January, 1941, serving for two years as supply clerk at Keesler Field, Miss. After receiving training at Moorehead, Minn, and went overseas in August of that years, serving one month in England before moving on to France. He was born at Spring Lake, Minn., on June 21, 1920, the family moving to Wisconsin Rapids when he was five years old. He attended SS. Peter and Paul Catholic school and was graduated from Lincoln High school in 1938. Besides his parents he is survived by six brothers, William, John, and Frank Jr., all of Wisconsin Rapids; Maurice and Donald, at home, and Thomas, with the 11th air force in Japan, and one sister, Mrs. Homer Isaac, Wichita Falls, Tex. Prayers will be said at 7:30 Sunday evening at the Krohn and Berard Funeral home. (Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, Friday, November, 12, 1948, p. 1, Col. 6)
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Army Service No. (ASN): #O782318
George M. Mathews is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Wood County, Wisconsin.
***I would like to thank mokennehan Find A Grave ID 47119719 for creating this memorial in addition to adding the obituary to it***
***I would like to thank Jonelle Find A Grave ID 46903714 for adding her photo of George to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Keith Find A Grave ID 46875326 for adding his gravesite photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Anita A. Find A Grave ID 48751272 for updating the death date information on this memorial***
The body of Second Lt. George M. Mathews, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Mathews, 311 Twelth street south, is to arrive in Wisconsin Rapids under military escort at 6 o'clock Saturday morning for reburial in Calvary cemetery. Services will be held at 9 o'clock Monday morning at SS. Peter and Paul Catholic church with the Rev. C. W. Gille officiating, and military rites are to be conducted by Buckley-Baldwin Post 2534, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Lieutenant Mathews lost his life while piloting a B-26 bomber over France on January 20, 1945. He had entered the service in January, 1941, serving for two years as supply clerk at Keesler Field, Miss. After receiving training at Moorehead, Minn, and went overseas in August of that years, serving one month in England before moving on to France. He was born at Spring Lake, Minn., on June 21, 1920, the family moving to Wisconsin Rapids when he was five years old. He attended SS. Peter and Paul Catholic school and was graduated from Lincoln High school in 1938. Besides his parents he is survived by six brothers, William, John, and Frank Jr., all of Wisconsin Rapids; Maurice and Donald, at home, and Thomas, with the 11th air force in Japan, and one sister, Mrs. Homer Isaac, Wichita Falls, Tex. Prayers will be said at 7:30 Sunday evening at the Krohn and Berard Funeral home. (Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, Friday, November, 12, 1948, p. 1, Col. 6)
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Army Service No. (ASN): #O782318
George M. Mathews is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Wood County, Wisconsin.
***I would like to thank mokennehan Find A Grave ID 47119719 for creating this memorial in addition to adding the obituary to it***
***I would like to thank Jonelle Find A Grave ID 46903714 for adding her photo of George to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Keith Find A Grave ID 46875326 for adding his gravesite photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Anita A. Find A Grave ID 48751272 for updating the death date information on this memorial***
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LT GEORGE MATHEWS
1920 - 1945
KILLED IN FRANCE
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