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LIEUT. BUCKBEES1OF NAVY DIESIN ENGLANDsioPneumonia Proves Fatal to Son ofIE. J. Buckbeeha' in|^iE. J. Buckbee, 1009 Lafayette ave- afccnue, received official notice late a5 Thursday afternoon that his son, j i. Lieut. R. Edward Buckbee, 30, of the sa„ fc U. S. Navy, died March 25 in a hos-- pital in England. Death was due to J- an extended illness of pneumonia get11 and complications which followed.*. Mr. and Mrs. Buckee were first informed of Lieutenant Buckbee's ^ death in a letter received Tuesday j. from a service man in England who “° h told of attending the lieutenant’s fu-neral in London. It was known here ed L- that he was ill, but he was believed mlto have been stationed in Scotland, ex;e Bom in tJrbana. haLieutenant Buckbee was born Feb. lio d 1, 1907, in Urbana. He moved with '’j his family to this city in 1917 and totd was graduated ‘from the Mattoon 47 :e High School with the class of 1925. fiv o Following his high school career he mi it attended the University of Illinois wa te and married Katherine Neal of Des ie Moines, Iowa, Feb. 29, 1936. Ho ^ d moved to Minneapolis) Minn., in sJl •e 1935 and joined the staff of the gG ie Minneapolis Star Times, working in the national advertising depart-it ment.[- In March, 1942, he was commis-)f sioned as lieutenant in the naval reserve and had since served in conic voy duty in the north Atlantic,Ld making many trips to England, Rus-le sia and other undisclosed countries, le Lieutenant Buckbee received any, award of commendation from the it chief of naval personnel on June 24,1- 1943, for gallantry in service per- fi{ formed when a ship upon which he Ir was serving was sunk. He is said to ai lb, have stayed with the ship f.or sev- pi ie erlM'ofti^ sc3d performing his duties to a meritor- Ae- ious degree. At the time of the sink-Ic. ing he was serving as armed guard llt;officer. cc1- Lieutenant and Mrs. Buckbee and tt re daughter, Judy Ann,, visited rela- tr tives in Mattoon last July. Mrs. m ti- Buckee and daughter now reside in t- Minneapolis. 13to Besides his father, wife andat daughter, he is 'survived by his Jn al stepmother; a brother, Harry Buck- e£ 211 bee of Washington, D. C., and a tie step-brother, George Walker of in Providence, R. I., serving with them SeaBees.v- — -
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Daily Journal Gazette
Mattoon, Illinois, US
Fri, Apr 14, 1944
Page 5
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