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;est-; or; ofthetheirdsxesthep islet-cies i re-eenno-theforWAR COMESCLOSE TO HOMEReported KilledGouli and i tonsiB L. and Gord er; 1and iSamDrchair SeoulSea Sevii_ CrestThe realities of this country’s parti- Donzcipation in the war was brought closeas- I t0 *lome’ ^ Past w^ek. when one Me- Me 1 dina district family received word from comrthe War department that their son W.and brother had been killed in a Jap- Cresianese air raid at Hickam field, Hawaii,and parents of another boy receivingthe disheartening news that their sonS had been “lost at sea.”MiMrs. Constance Messam, who lives rS just east of Western Star on Route djs- 224, was notified last Thursday that ^lt;*1Jan. her son’ Pvt- First c,ass Horace A. A Me- Messam, 22, was killed in the air raid whiclities at Hickam Field on Sunday, Dec. 7. Cleve Me_ I He enlisted in the mechanical depart-.ment of the Army Air Corps in July,T .. , 1939, and had been in Hawaii for a T1,1 | number of months._ , - , i Half Mast7 Messam, a Wadsworth high school not I graduate in the Class of 1937, leaves a brother, Ernest of Western Star, and hed I a sister, Mrs. Margaret Weigand of aids Barberton, besides his mother. His W. father died six years ago.’tor, in tribute to Private Messam, the otas flag at the High street park in Wads-nity worth flies at half mast, this week, by ) in- | order of Mayor H. Jerry Hall.Sheriff Oliver Barry had the diffi-cut task, Tuesday, of reading to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Botos the telegram from the War department in which it was stated that their son, Steve, was “lost at sea.” The Botos family lives about three miles east of Grangerburg,just inside Summit county.Was Only Childdurinat a itionhousenowaboutMedirThememicipal of Cl Nor nualyear were cludir E. J.Oth of Hii field, C. Kii nail o field.
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Medina County Gazette
Medina, Ohio, US
Fri, Dec 19, 1941
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