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Penney MilitaryI \ Rites Conducteds-! Military funeral services for1* Staff Sgt. Norman Penney whowas killed in action on Leyte Nov. 3, 1944 were held today at 3 p. m.in the Jack Schmitz and Sons Funeral Chapel.Pallbearers were former Denton High School football teammates. ! Rev. Claude Holcomb of the Welch Street Church of Christ officiated. ie: The American Legion was in charge of the military burial serv-d ices. Interment was in the Oak-• wood Cemetery.Sgt. Penney served with the in-, fantry in the initial invasion of d Leyte and was one of the first n American soldiers to set foot onsoil of the Philippine Islands in l* attack.He was reared in the Denton y schools and was a graduate of Den- j 5t ton High School svere he partlci-f- pated in football and track. He at-'*! tended North Texas State College s for tw’o years before entering the *j service.Survivors include his mother, * Mrs. Maggie Penney; two broth-1 j era, Homer of Cleburne and Dodds of Ranger.
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Denton Record Chronicle
Denton, Texas, US
Fri, Sep 17, 1948
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