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Pilot’s Wife GetsHis PosthumousSi*:Air Medal AwardLt. George R. McLennan, Killed Flying Over Italy, Is Cited.and the armrcl forces nf the UnitedSlut os/'iScfurc ho enlisted in the* nnny three years ago. I he pilol w:ih•cm ployed at the Federal FloeUie company and formerly a student.of Calumet high school.Surviving in addition to his wife : is his 15-months-old daughter, ! Donna ltae, whom he had never seen,The air medal award was pre-i sen ted Thursday night to Mrs/. C. Gordon, 72, H«W of Bakery Firm, DiesSOVI • a\I to1 reblt;Funeral services were held yesterday morning in Detroil lor J. C*. [Marian McLe*v™”« Feona si.., (_;nr(-lon, 72-year-uki president ol; wife of BU George R. McLennan, | the Gordon Baking company, whooII■r5f•iii922, pilol of an A-20 attack bomberwho was awarded the decorationfor his participation in destroyingenemy troops which caused hisdeath February 29, 1944. The|award was made by Capt. F. M.( 'Dolven. sixth service command otj• . I:the army air lorces, ,| While flying over Italy in an ; at tack upon a concentration of [enemy troops, according to the !accompanying citation, “anti-air-:craft fire heavily damaged Lieu-: tenant McLennan's plane.“Realizing he would be unable ■to reach his base, the citation continued, the lieutenant radioedciiod -Monday nig Id in a New York hospital after an illness of 13 months.Mr. Gordon took ox er the Gui-non-Pagle Baking company chain in 1920 and served as its president since then. The Chicagi? branch, the Silver Cup Baking company, is located at 5324 Federal si.Mr. Gordon is ^urvixed by his widow, Josephine, two brothers and lour sisters.PiminriVYlllt;gleircu»Vi. s l • Y.Southtown Singers Will Present Concert Mondayc-A returneitgiiacmeiiconcerthis position to the air-sea rescue j with an entirely new program lor station and crash-landed on the; the men in service will be given j rough water so skillfully that his-by the Southtown Singers at lt;• itwo gunners were able to escape j p.m. tomorrow in the Calvary i uninjured. j Methodist church, 7Slh and IMor-: ‘ Lieutenant McLennan was se- gan sts.1vcrely injured in the crash/’ the citation went on, .-and he diedThe choriMS is under the direo lion of Ann Gordon. Fred Wnr-witnm a iewhours after being, ing’s arrangement of die BalileL-i picked up by a rescue launch.! Hymn ot the Republic ’ will be SHIs selfless devotion to duty re-] one of the special numbers. The ’fleets highest credit upon himseli public is invited ‘o at lend._
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Southtown Economist
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sun, Mar 11, 1945
Page 24
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