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WAR DEAD RETURNEDear I llomer E. Stone Body Arrive**1* of I Wednesday; First Troy Honor| W w ■' r :Wur-J Dead From Overseasout I The fjrS| Df Troy‘a young men, m I who gave their lives during theled, I jwent war, to be returned for re-rh* interment, that of Fvt. HomeT E. '’IStone, arrived in Ttq^ Wednes-I day, December 17.^ I Services were held this morning I (Thursday) at the McCoy Funerallu *Home, conducted by Rev. J. Pres-^jjlton Cole, at 11:00 o’clock, afterAO*?‘ ' which the cortege left for the Na-^ a t ion a I Com t eery at Jefferson Bar_ ^■v racks for interment.^ d The body was accompanied here by military escort Opl. James C. roe, Motsinger, and local veterans, ofthe Lincoln County Post, No. 94, American legion, will have charge tl of the miiitarv burial rites, nes, pV| stone, who was killed in len- action on February 2, 1 949, was eay born July 2, 1918. being 26 years of age at the time he made thesupreme sacrifice. He entered ser-vice on December 7, 194ft, at Jef-^ ferson Barracks, and was trans-or ferrelt;| to Camp Fannin, Tex., for rt his bask' training. Later he was * transferred to Cam u® reckon ridge, , •*■•• »,^'ijbr(r»eas in* Juneins- 1941, where he was assigned to the l‘hs Glider Troops of the 82nd 'Air-TK5 TcuTrrie DhTsfoh. lwirch Ho left to mourn his passing his for wife. Mrs. Virginia Stone, two pe- daughters, Charlotte and Joyce, a crs- son Eddie, his father, Charles and Stone, several brothers and sistersAt and other relatives, iish —•* —-
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Troy free Press And Silex Index
Troy, Missouri, US
Fri, Dec 19, 1947
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