Ernest Luther Day, 85, of Macomb, died 10:45pm Friday May 11, 2001 at Heartland Healthcre Center in Macomb.
He was born April 9, 1916 in Brooklyn, Illinois to Leland Ross and Lydia May (Horton) Day.
He married Ellen Stambaugh May 17, 1947, she survives.
He was a veteran of WWII, serving in the Philippines and was a prisoner of war.
He was a tool and die maker and machinist for King-Steeley, Macomb,for 33 years, retiring in 1981. He trained field trial dogs, member of C.I.C and VFW.
Services were held 1:30pm Wednesday at Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral Home with Rev. Lee Day officiating. Full military services will be conducted by Macomb VFW and American Legion.
Burial in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.
He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers, Roy, Wayne and Alfred.
Survivors also include one son, Ron (Becky) Day; one daughter, Lou (Dennis) Carey of Macon, MO.; three grandchildren, two step-grandchildren; one great-grandchild;.
note:MACOMB VETERAN NOW PATIENT AT MAY HOSPITAL" - Macomb Journal sometime in June 1945:
"Back in America after playing hide and seek with the Japanese in the Philippines for almost three years, Master Sergeant Ernest L. Day of Macomb, Ill., is a new patient at Mayo General Hospital. M/Sgt. Day escaped to the mountains when Bataan fell in April, 1942, and eventually joined up with a band of guerrilla fighters to help harass the enemy until American soldiers invaded the island.''
"Day was one of a group of 12 men who refused to surrender to the Japs. After evading capture they walked for four days and then split up when they scattered to cross a Jap-held roadway. The sergeant made his way to a commercial fish pond managed by a friendly Filipino and there he hid out for some time. Until July, 1944, he hid out in the central plains, then was forced to take to hiding in the mountains again."
"Master Sgt Day enlisted in the Air Corps in August, 1941, and went overseas November 1, 1941. For the last three months before Bataan fell, he served as an Infantryman in the front lines."
"A brother, Alfred, died in a Japanese prison camp on Luzon. Day is the son of Leland R. Day, Macomb, Illinois.
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What are the odds that ONE family would have TWO sons captured and in prison camps? Pretty bad odds!!! He probably went from a farm boy to eluding his enemy for three years. How did he, mentally and physically, do that? I am impressed by his actions and wish I could have met him.
Connie Hoelscher Fairchild
He was born April 9, 1916 in Brooklyn, Illinois to Leland Ross and Lydia May (Horton) Day.
He married Ellen Stambaugh May 17, 1947, she survives.
He was a veteran of WWII, serving in the Philippines and was a prisoner of war.
He was a tool and die maker and machinist for King-Steeley, Macomb,for 33 years, retiring in 1981. He trained field trial dogs, member of C.I.C and VFW.
Services were held 1:30pm Wednesday at Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral Home with Rev. Lee Day officiating. Full military services will be conducted by Macomb VFW and American Legion.
Burial in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.
He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers, Roy, Wayne and Alfred.
Survivors also include one son, Ron (Becky) Day; one daughter, Lou (Dennis) Carey of Macon, MO.; three grandchildren, two step-grandchildren; one great-grandchild;.
note:MACOMB VETERAN NOW PATIENT AT MAY HOSPITAL" - Macomb Journal sometime in June 1945:
"Back in America after playing hide and seek with the Japanese in the Philippines for almost three years, Master Sergeant Ernest L. Day of Macomb, Ill., is a new patient at Mayo General Hospital. M/Sgt. Day escaped to the mountains when Bataan fell in April, 1942, and eventually joined up with a band of guerrilla fighters to help harass the enemy until American soldiers invaded the island.''
"Day was one of a group of 12 men who refused to surrender to the Japs. After evading capture they walked for four days and then split up when they scattered to cross a Jap-held roadway. The sergeant made his way to a commercial fish pond managed by a friendly Filipino and there he hid out for some time. Until July, 1944, he hid out in the central plains, then was forced to take to hiding in the mountains again."
"Master Sgt Day enlisted in the Air Corps in August, 1941, and went overseas November 1, 1941. For the last three months before Bataan fell, he served as an Infantryman in the front lines."
"A brother, Alfred, died in a Japanese prison camp on Luzon. Day is the son of Leland R. Day, Macomb, Illinois.
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What are the odds that ONE family would have TWO sons captured and in prison camps? Pretty bad odds!!! He probably went from a farm boy to eluding his enemy for three years. How did he, mentally and physically, do that? I am impressed by his actions and wish I could have met him.
Connie Hoelscher Fairchild
Ernest Luther Day, 85, of Macomb, died 10:45pm Friday May 11, 2001 at Heartland Healthcre Center in Macomb.
He was born April 9, 1916 in Brooklyn, Illinois to Leland Ross and Lydia May (Horton) Day.
He married Ellen Stambaugh May 17, 1947, she survives.
He was a veteran of WWII, serving in the Philippines and was a prisoner of war.
He was a tool and die maker and machinist for King-Steeley, Macomb,for 33 years, retiring in 1981. He trained field trial dogs, member of C.I.C and VFW.
Services were held 1:30pm Wednesday at Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral Home with Rev. Lee Day officiating. Full military services will be conducted by Macomb VFW and American Legion.
Burial in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.
He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers, Roy, Wayne and Alfred.
Survivors also include one son, Ron (Becky) Day; one daughter, Lou (Dennis) Carey of Macon, MO.; three grandchildren, two step-grandchildren; one great-grandchild;.
note:MACOMB VETERAN NOW PATIENT AT MAY HOSPITAL" - Macomb Journal sometime in June 1945:
"Back in America after playing hide and seek with the Japanese in the Philippines for almost three years, Master Sergeant Ernest L. Day of Macomb, Ill., is a new patient at Mayo General Hospital. M/Sgt. Day escaped to the mountains when Bataan fell in April, 1942, and eventually joined up with a band of guerrilla fighters to help harass the enemy until American soldiers invaded the island.''
"Day was one of a group of 12 men who refused to surrender to the Japs. After evading capture they walked for four days and then split up when they scattered to cross a Jap-held roadway. The sergeant made his way to a commercial fish pond managed by a friendly Filipino and there he hid out for some time. Until July, 1944, he hid out in the central plains, then was forced to take to hiding in the mountains again."
"Master Sgt Day enlisted in the Air Corps in August, 1941, and went overseas November 1, 1941. For the last three months before Bataan fell, he served as an Infantryman in the front lines."
"A brother, Alfred, died in a Japanese prison camp on Luzon. Day is the son of Leland R. Day, Macomb, Illinois.
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What are the odds that ONE family would have TWO sons captured and in prison camps? Pretty bad odds!!! He probably went from a farm boy to eluding his enemy for three years. How did he, mentally and physically, do that? I am impressed by his actions and wish I could have met him.
Connie Hoelscher Fairchild
He was born April 9, 1916 in Brooklyn, Illinois to Leland Ross and Lydia May (Horton) Day.
He married Ellen Stambaugh May 17, 1947, she survives.
He was a veteran of WWII, serving in the Philippines and was a prisoner of war.
He was a tool and die maker and machinist for King-Steeley, Macomb,for 33 years, retiring in 1981. He trained field trial dogs, member of C.I.C and VFW.
Services were held 1:30pm Wednesday at Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral Home with Rev. Lee Day officiating. Full military services will be conducted by Macomb VFW and American Legion.
Burial in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.
He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers, Roy, Wayne and Alfred.
Survivors also include one son, Ron (Becky) Day; one daughter, Lou (Dennis) Carey of Macon, MO.; three grandchildren, two step-grandchildren; one great-grandchild;.
note:MACOMB VETERAN NOW PATIENT AT MAY HOSPITAL" - Macomb Journal sometime in June 1945:
"Back in America after playing hide and seek with the Japanese in the Philippines for almost three years, Master Sergeant Ernest L. Day of Macomb, Ill., is a new patient at Mayo General Hospital. M/Sgt. Day escaped to the mountains when Bataan fell in April, 1942, and eventually joined up with a band of guerrilla fighters to help harass the enemy until American soldiers invaded the island.''
"Day was one of a group of 12 men who refused to surrender to the Japs. After evading capture they walked for four days and then split up when they scattered to cross a Jap-held roadway. The sergeant made his way to a commercial fish pond managed by a friendly Filipino and there he hid out for some time. Until July, 1944, he hid out in the central plains, then was forced to take to hiding in the mountains again."
"Master Sgt Day enlisted in the Air Corps in August, 1941, and went overseas November 1, 1941. For the last three months before Bataan fell, he served as an Infantryman in the front lines."
"A brother, Alfred, died in a Japanese prison camp on Luzon. Day is the son of Leland R. Day, Macomb, Illinois.
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What are the odds that ONE family would have TWO sons captured and in prison camps? Pretty bad odds!!! He probably went from a farm boy to eluding his enemy for three years. How did he, mentally and physically, do that? I am impressed by his actions and wish I could have met him.
Connie Hoelscher Fairchild
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