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Champion C. Barebo

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Champion C. Barebo Veteran

Birth
Death
3 Feb 1945 (aged 20)
Burial
Saint Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Missouri SGT 310 Infantry 78th Division
World War II

St. Charles, Missouri, DAILY COSMOS-MONITOR, Wednesday, April 13, 1949, Front Page

SGT. BAREBO REBURIAL ON GOOD FRIDAY

20-YEAR-OLD SOLDIER KILLED FEB. 3, 1945; BODY TO ARRIVE TOMORROW MORNING.

The remains of Sergeant Champion C. Barebo, killed in the service of his country at Konzen, Germany, Feb. 3, 1945, will be returned to St. Charles tomorrow at 8 a.m. aboard the Wabash.

Sgt. Barebo was 20 years of age. The body had been temporarily interred at a military cemetery in Margarten, Holland. A news account in the Cosmos-Monitor of that date stated that the sergeant was the 50th St. Charles boy to make the supreme sacrifice.

The body will be in state at Hockmann-Baue funeral home until 11 a.m. Friday, then will be in state at Immanuel Lutheran Church until funeral services at 1 p.m.

Reinterment will be in the Lutheran cemetery. American Legion, Post 312, will participate in graveside services.

Parents of the deceased sergeant are Mr. and mrs. Kenneth Barebo. He is survived by three brothers and four sisters, Mrs. Maurice DeRoy, Mrs. Richard Dillon, Mrs. Ira DeRoy, Mrs. Arvie Kuechler, Willard, Edward and Robert Barebo.
Missouri SGT 310 Infantry 78th Division
World War II

St. Charles, Missouri, DAILY COSMOS-MONITOR, Wednesday, April 13, 1949, Front Page

SGT. BAREBO REBURIAL ON GOOD FRIDAY

20-YEAR-OLD SOLDIER KILLED FEB. 3, 1945; BODY TO ARRIVE TOMORROW MORNING.

The remains of Sergeant Champion C. Barebo, killed in the service of his country at Konzen, Germany, Feb. 3, 1945, will be returned to St. Charles tomorrow at 8 a.m. aboard the Wabash.

Sgt. Barebo was 20 years of age. The body had been temporarily interred at a military cemetery in Margarten, Holland. A news account in the Cosmos-Monitor of that date stated that the sergeant was the 50th St. Charles boy to make the supreme sacrifice.

The body will be in state at Hockmann-Baue funeral home until 11 a.m. Friday, then will be in state at Immanuel Lutheran Church until funeral services at 1 p.m.

Reinterment will be in the Lutheran cemetery. American Legion, Post 312, will participate in graveside services.

Parents of the deceased sergeant are Mr. and mrs. Kenneth Barebo. He is survived by three brothers and four sisters, Mrs. Maurice DeRoy, Mrs. Richard Dillon, Mrs. Ira DeRoy, Mrs. Arvie Kuechler, Willard, Edward and Robert Barebo.

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