Private, Company F, 39th Infantry, 4th Division. Son of John and Celia Anderson; born January 20, 1890 in Peoria, IL. Entered service at Galesburg, September 21, 1917; to Camp Dodge; to Camp Pike; to Camp Greene, NC; to Camp Mills; to France; in trenches 26 days; 82 days in offensives at Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, Aisne-Marne and Vesle; in service 23 months; discharged August 15, 1919.
August Anderson, 71, formerly of Galesburg, died early this morning in a veterans' facility at Jacksonville, where he had been a patient for 33 years. He was a veteran of World War I.
Mr. Anderson was born in Peoria January 20, 1890, and moved to Galesburg as a young man. He was a member of First Lutheran Church here and the American Legion Post at Jacksonville.
He was never married. Only survivors are nieces and a nephew, Mrs. CE Worden and Mrs. Dwight Walters of Galesburg, Mrs. Forrest Larson of Rock Island and Paul R Swanson of Galesburg.
Funeral will be Friday at 2 PM at Hunchliff and Pearson Funeral Chapel, where friends may call Thursday evening. Burial will be in East Linwood Cemetery.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: NOVEMBER 21, 1961
Funeral services for August Anderson, 71, former Galesburg resident who died Tuesday in Jacksonville, were conducted at 2 PM today at Hinchliff and Pearson Funeral Chapel by Rev Ordell Peterson, pastor of First Lutheran Church. C William Pearson sang, accompanied by Mrs. Roy H Pearson Jr. Burial was in East Linwood Cemetery.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: NOVEMBER 24, 1961
August Anderson, 71, formerly of Galesburg, died early this morning in a veterans' facility at Jacksonville, where he had been a patient for 33 years. He was a veteran of World War I.
Mr. Anderson was born in Peoria January 20, 1890, and moved to Galesburg as a young man. He was a member of First Lutheran Church here and the American Legion Post at Jacksonville.
He was never married. Only survivors are nieces and a nephew, Mrs. CE Worden and Mrs. Dwight Walters of Galesburg, Mrs. Forrest Larson of Rock Island and Paul R Swanson of Galesburg.
Funeral will be Friday at 2 PM at Hunchliff and Pearson Funeral Chapel, where friends may call Thursday evening. Burial will be in East Linwood Cemetery.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: NOVEMBER 21, 1961
Funeral services for August Anderson, 71, former Galesburg resident who died Tuesday in Jacksonville, were conducted at 2 PM today at Hinchliff and Pearson Funeral Chapel by Rev Ordell Peterson, pastor of First Lutheran Church. C William Pearson sang, accompanied by Mrs. Roy H Pearson Jr. Burial was in East Linwood Cemetery.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: NOVEMBER 24, 1961
Private, Company F, 39th Infantry, 4th Division. Son of John and Celia Anderson; born January 20, 1890 in Peoria, IL. Entered service at Galesburg, September 21, 1917; to Camp Dodge; to Camp Pike; to Camp Greene, NC; to Camp Mills; to France; in trenches 26 days; 82 days in offensives at Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, Aisne-Marne and Vesle; in service 23 months; discharged August 15, 1919.
August Anderson, 71, formerly of Galesburg, died early this morning in a veterans' facility at Jacksonville, where he had been a patient for 33 years. He was a veteran of World War I.
Mr. Anderson was born in Peoria January 20, 1890, and moved to Galesburg as a young man. He was a member of First Lutheran Church here and the American Legion Post at Jacksonville.
He was never married. Only survivors are nieces and a nephew, Mrs. CE Worden and Mrs. Dwight Walters of Galesburg, Mrs. Forrest Larson of Rock Island and Paul R Swanson of Galesburg.
Funeral will be Friday at 2 PM at Hunchliff and Pearson Funeral Chapel, where friends may call Thursday evening. Burial will be in East Linwood Cemetery.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: NOVEMBER 21, 1961
Funeral services for August Anderson, 71, former Galesburg resident who died Tuesday in Jacksonville, were conducted at 2 PM today at Hinchliff and Pearson Funeral Chapel by Rev Ordell Peterson, pastor of First Lutheran Church. C William Pearson sang, accompanied by Mrs. Roy H Pearson Jr. Burial was in East Linwood Cemetery.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: NOVEMBER 24, 1961
August Anderson, 71, formerly of Galesburg, died early this morning in a veterans' facility at Jacksonville, where he had been a patient for 33 years. He was a veteran of World War I.
Mr. Anderson was born in Peoria January 20, 1890, and moved to Galesburg as a young man. He was a member of First Lutheran Church here and the American Legion Post at Jacksonville.
He was never married. Only survivors are nieces and a nephew, Mrs. CE Worden and Mrs. Dwight Walters of Galesburg, Mrs. Forrest Larson of Rock Island and Paul R Swanson of Galesburg.
Funeral will be Friday at 2 PM at Hunchliff and Pearson Funeral Chapel, where friends may call Thursday evening. Burial will be in East Linwood Cemetery.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: NOVEMBER 21, 1961
Funeral services for August Anderson, 71, former Galesburg resident who died Tuesday in Jacksonville, were conducted at 2 PM today at Hinchliff and Pearson Funeral Chapel by Rev Ordell Peterson, pastor of First Lutheran Church. C William Pearson sang, accompanied by Mrs. Roy H Pearson Jr. Burial was in East Linwood Cemetery.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: NOVEMBER 24, 1961
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