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' Another Akron Soldier Hakes The Supreme SacrificeAnother name has been added ’ to Akron's growing list of war j \ casualties this week. Hayes Barr \ ; and family were notified in a mes- ’ : sage from the War department In : Washington that his son, Pvt.Junior Herbert Barr, who was re-■5 ported a week ago Saturday to \ j haVe been slightly” wounded in ( 5 action with the U. S. armed forces [ s in France on December 19, 1944,' had passed away on December 27, 1944, which was just the day before his nineteenth birthday anniversary. Word of the young soldier’s death came as a grievous blow to Mr. Barr and family, and they have the sincere sympathy of the community in their bereave-; ment, says the Akron Register-;I Tribune. (1 Junior Herbert Barr was born at St. Paul, Minn., December 28, 1925. At the age of four months j he came with his parents to Ha- ’■ warden, la., where they lived for one. , and a half years and then moved to Akron, which has since been his home. He grew to young, manhood here and enlisted in the; army cn December 28, 1943, leav- j ing for training February 14, 1944, i at Camp Croft, S. C. Last August . Pvt; Barr was home on a 15-day,• furlough, and a few days after re-I turning to Camp Croft he was sent overseas to England and then to France, where he served his country in the armed forces and finally made the supreme sacrifice. jThose left to mourn his loss are, j his father, Hayes Barr; three sis-! ters, Maurine, Betty and Frances,» and? one brother, Robert, all of, Akron; his mother, Mrs. Goldie I Barr, of Waterloo, Iowa, and his j grandmother, Mrs. Jennie Kelly,1 alsouof Waterloo, as well as sev-| eral aunts, uncles, cousins and a host of friends. i
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Le Mars Globe Post
Le Mars, Iowa, US
Mon, Jan 22, 1945
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