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Milford Earl Matthews

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Milford Earl Matthews

Birth
Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA
Death
1 Oct 1944 (aged 23)
Germany
Burial
Morgan Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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The body of Sargeant Milford E. Matthews a member of Company K, 110th Infantry, who was killed in action October 1, 1944 during the battle for Aachen, Germany will arrive in Washington, Pa at 7:42 A.M. today and will be brought to the Weaver Funeral Home here for funeral services which will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The body is being accompanied by Corporal George M. Guthrie, who also served with Company K overseas. Corporal Guthrie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Guthrie of North Moris Street. Friends will be received at the funeral home after one o'clock this afternoon. Burial will be in Greene County Memorial Park with military rites at grave side in charge of James Farrel Post No 330, American Legion. Sargeant Matthews body was one of 10 from Greene County, Pa. to arrive in NY aboard the funeral ship Robert Berns the last week in November. He had been buried in Henri Chapelle military Cemetery at Euphen, Germany where most of the Americans killed in the battle for Aachen and in the Battle of the Bulge were buried. Sargeant Matthew was a member of Company K, 110th Infantry, 28th Division, nicknamed by the Germans as the "Bloody Bucket" Division and served with that unit from the time it landed on the beaches of Normandy in the invasion of France until he met his death in the American siege of Aachen, Germany. He was 25 years of age at the time of his death. Sargeant Matthews was a son of William Matthews who survives and the late Dessie Wright Matthews and resided in the Waynesburg community prior to enlisting in Company K for service in World War II. Before entering the armed forces he was employed as a farm worker. Besides his father and his wife, Mrs. Georgia Shaw Matthews, he leaves two children, Gerald Benton and Martha Rae, four sisters, Mrs Byron Vandruff of Waynesburg, Mrs. Ralph DeWitt of Connellsville, Mrs. Betty Baysinger of Spraggs and Mrs. Ina Lee Baysinger of Waynesburg, two brothers Marvin Matthews and Billy Ray Matthews of Spraggs and one half brother Melvin Aberegg of Jefferson.
The body of Sargeant Milford E. Matthews a member of Company K, 110th Infantry, who was killed in action October 1, 1944 during the battle for Aachen, Germany will arrive in Washington, Pa at 7:42 A.M. today and will be brought to the Weaver Funeral Home here for funeral services which will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The body is being accompanied by Corporal George M. Guthrie, who also served with Company K overseas. Corporal Guthrie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Guthrie of North Moris Street. Friends will be received at the funeral home after one o'clock this afternoon. Burial will be in Greene County Memorial Park with military rites at grave side in charge of James Farrel Post No 330, American Legion. Sargeant Matthews body was one of 10 from Greene County, Pa. to arrive in NY aboard the funeral ship Robert Berns the last week in November. He had been buried in Henri Chapelle military Cemetery at Euphen, Germany where most of the Americans killed in the battle for Aachen and in the Battle of the Bulge were buried. Sargeant Matthew was a member of Company K, 110th Infantry, 28th Division, nicknamed by the Germans as the "Bloody Bucket" Division and served with that unit from the time it landed on the beaches of Normandy in the invasion of France until he met his death in the American siege of Aachen, Germany. He was 25 years of age at the time of his death. Sargeant Matthews was a son of William Matthews who survives and the late Dessie Wright Matthews and resided in the Waynesburg community prior to enlisting in Company K for service in World War II. Before entering the armed forces he was employed as a farm worker. Besides his father and his wife, Mrs. Georgia Shaw Matthews, he leaves two children, Gerald Benton and Martha Rae, four sisters, Mrs Byron Vandruff of Waynesburg, Mrs. Ralph DeWitt of Connellsville, Mrs. Betty Baysinger of Spraggs and Mrs. Ina Lee Baysinger of Waynesburg, two brothers Marvin Matthews and Billy Ray Matthews of Spraggs and one half brother Melvin Aberegg of Jefferson.


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