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Rites Held ForTributes GivenLeslie A. Prichard, .local attorney, has returned from Washington* IX C. where he wb called last week by. the tragic death ot lus brother*. Maj. Gen/ Vernon B. Prichard* chief of the army's Information center. - Gen, .Prichard died, aboard a cabin cruiser as he and a-group of prominent 'Woeh-IngtohlanB were about to leave on a Potomac river cruise. The yacht exploded from undetermined Cannes* killing two of the nine aboard.:* * *4Thp . Kwmetsburg brother flew from' D©b Moines for the funeral which was held Tuesday afternoon* July 12, at the. chapel at Fori Myer*. Virginia, Maj. Gen. LUther P. .Miller* elder of. chaplains* officiated.Honorary pallbearers Included Gordon Gray, accro-tnry of the Army,, and the following member* of the West Point Cl am of 1915 to which General Prichard belonged: General Dwight I), EUenhow-cr, Major General A. Howard GHke*oaf Major' General Tbdtiia* ttcwfn., Major General Stafford irwlti*^ Major GwHWat ThowMir li-' lArfttu M*jbf; Bd.wiiirtoWman Lyofc, Major General Cliarkn W* ■ Kyder* Major General -Henry ft. 6*yler, flrigadier Gehetal BdWitl A, Zubdet. G^lohet Frederic W, IMv*, Coldufel j?; PeTrevMle Elite, Coldhet joliii Easter T-tarrfs. Colonel MartinCOianel Thmwa* F. ‘ TAytOr, and Mr. Sidney C*Graves** ■* *Thrrlhg the service* ♦ the Glia he! was crowded with (Honda. fellow officers* Depart hi oi the Armyexecutives and a representation from the Washington press who came to pay their final rsRpeoia-In addition humiredfi of ftorAl trthwl.es* moppaEes and letters Ar-(Continued od Page ?
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Emmetsburg Democrat
Emmetsburg, Iowa, US
Thu, Jul 21, 1949
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