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NUMBER 3£BURIAL SERVICE HERE FOR SOLDIEROWEN NEWGAARD. FORMER ROLAND ROY, KILLED IN ACTIOKDURING WARFull military services were *11614 am Saturday1 afternoon, October 29 at tte Nazareth Lutheran church in jCan*-bridge for Pfc. Owen NewgaardL whose body was returned from over-, seas. A largo number of ex-so!die«. sailors and marines were in attendance. Rev. Ernest Win dm an, pastor of the Memorial Lutheran church afc Nevada was in charge, assisted by Rev. Peder Buland of Cambridge.Following the service at Cambridge the remains were brought to Roland and interred in the Roland cemetery-Pfc. Owen Morrell Newgaardi wus born August 20, 192 to August and Pauline Newgaard on a lt;farm soutb*-west of Roland. He* attended schooB at Slater, Huxley and Cambridge. He entered the service of his country October 16, 1943 and left for over*-seas June 2, 1944 and served in the European area in the campaigns o£ northern France and the Rhineland-and was killed in action March 2, 19425 in Kairfield, Germany while serving: with Company B, 701st Tank Battalion.He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Pauline Newgaard of Stover, Mo., one 'brother and four sisters, Eugene and Evelyn at home, Mrs. Odellia Lantz cdf Denver, Colo., Mrs. Arlet McKee an® Mrs. Helen Wells of Des Moines. His father and a sister preceded him i*» death.
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Roland Record
Roland, Iowa, US
Thu, Nov 11, 1948
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