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ct ion part-8 nro nnics lopllANOTHER TANK COMPANY HERO RETURNS HOMEKco-ed a [? in-nent.Kco- J -i an- Funeral Rites For T/5 Alton *,aU? j Dodway Are Set For Thurs-nncd i day, October 21I itn-, 0|,j Another Port Clinton Tank Coni-ding puny hero is coining home to rest, 1922 s‘x y°:iV» aftiM’ lie passed away in a lent- Japanese prison camp in the Philip-inlly l,,ne Islands. The body of T/5 Alin ()’f ton M. Dodway has arrived in 4he T'nited States from the southwest j Pacific and funeral services are ar-, rangud for 2 o'clock this week en d ,n,li,f’day in St. Thomas’ Episcopal Dvid.- church- Irhoiild Dodway passed away of dysen- wa tery in the summer of 1942, accord- sco hool 'nK dapanese records captured its ,r by the American forces during the • ha 11 *inal days of the war. jos He had been missing in action r(|u front May 7. 1942, until July I,I • I, 1944, when the War Department lfl|n.. entered a presumption of death in f)n his case. Alton M. Dodway was j\|r |lj(y one of the many Port Clinton men„ , who died heroically in the months•I 11*1tjl(l after the Fall of Bataan.The Rev. William Thomas willlary Born in Port Clinton, December in 19. 1919, Alton M. Dodway was 22 fop years, four months and 29 days of dor :iire at the time of his tragic death, son lHj(| He was not married.taryrich officiate at funeral services, and j,np (irrner Wolf is directing inter-liool mcnt in Kiverview cemetery, we Surviving are tin* mother, Mrs. the Josephine Dodway; brothers, Wilbur- liam Dodway, Jr., Fort Wayne, I lithe diana; Ernest, Albert and Clar-om- ence (Jrodi, Port Clinton; and sis-nth ters, Mrs. Louise Floro, Toledo, and Sat ides Mrs. Delena Salisbury, Bryan. nun
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Ottawa County News
Port Clinton, Ohio, US
Fri, Oct 22, 1948
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