Pvt Ivies LeCompte Beckstead

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Pvt Ivies LeCompte Beckstead

Birth
Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Death
15 Jun 1955 (aged 65)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Burial
Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Add to Map
Plot
04 112 3
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Ivies worked briefly as a teacher before joining the Balloon Corps in World War I. He married Myrtle Lorina Reed on September 15, 1917 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He worked for the Union Pacific Railroad after the war, but was demoted to clerk at the office in Murray after his hearing failed (engineers were not allowed to wear hearing aids).

He married Melba Harkness Jensen after his wife Myrtle's death in 1938.
Ivies worked briefly as a teacher before joining the Balloon Corps in World War I. He married Myrtle Lorina Reed on September 15, 1917 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He worked for the Union Pacific Railroad after the war, but was demoted to clerk at the office in Murray after his hearing failed (engineers were not allowed to wear hearing aids).

He married Melba Harkness Jensen after his wife Myrtle's death in 1938.

Gravesite Details

WWI Veteran