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PFC Kenneth Carlton Buckles

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PFC Kenneth Carlton Buckles

Birth
Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas, USA
Death
3 Mar 1944 (aged 25)
At Sea
Burial
Sterling, Rice County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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obituary from the Sterling (KS) Bulletin:

Services Held For Pfc. Kenneth Buckles. Gravesite services for Pfc. Kenneth C. Buckles, formerly of Sterling, were held in the Sterling cemetery at 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. Pfc. Buckles was born in Hutchinson April 1, 1918, and was drowned March 3, 1944, when a landing barge in which he was riding capsized off the coast of North Africa.

He is survived by his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Buckles, 1007 East Sherman, Hutchinson; three sisters, Mrs. Max Parris [Parrish] and Mrs. Albert Pyatt, both of Garden City, and Mrs. Henry Belden, Sterling; a step-sister, Mrs. Jack Hanselman, Burrton; and an uncle, William Rankle [Reinke], near Sylvia, who helped raise Mr. Buckles after his mother died six months after birth.
obituary from the Sterling (KS) Bulletin:

Services Held For Pfc. Kenneth Buckles. Gravesite services for Pfc. Kenneth C. Buckles, formerly of Sterling, were held in the Sterling cemetery at 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. Pfc. Buckles was born in Hutchinson April 1, 1918, and was drowned March 3, 1944, when a landing barge in which he was riding capsized off the coast of North Africa.

He is survived by his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Buckles, 1007 East Sherman, Hutchinson; three sisters, Mrs. Max Parris [Parrish] and Mrs. Albert Pyatt, both of Garden City, and Mrs. Henry Belden, Sterling; a step-sister, Mrs. Jack Hanselman, Burrton; and an uncle, William Rankle [Reinke], near Sylvia, who helped raise Mr. Buckles after his mother died six months after birth.


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