Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Tuesday, February 27, 1945
Louis Heckathorn, PFC. LOUIS HECKATHORN IS NOW REPORTED KILLED. Word has been received from the War Department by Mr. and Mrs. Lester HECKATHORN of Liberty township that their son, Pfc. Louis HECKATHORN, 20, was killed in action in Belgium on Feb. 4. He had previously been reported as missing. Pfc. Heckathorn was born in South Bend on Oct. 16, 1924, but had resided in Fulton county almost all of his life. He was a graduate of Fulton high school and previous to his induction in the Army on June 3, 1942, drove a milk truck for Armour & Co. He trained in camps in New York and Virginia and had been overseas since last October. Surviving are the parents and a sister, LaDonna [HECKATHORN], at home; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. HECKATHORN of near Perrysburg and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry WELLER of Marion. [NOTE: Louis Heckathorn, 20, Fulton, killed in action in Germany, February 4, 1945. - Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 27, 2000.]
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries – 1945 by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Louis Heckathorn, PFC. LOUIS HECKATHORN IS NOW REPORTED KILLED. Word has been received from the War Department by Mr. and Mrs. Lester HECKATHORN of Liberty township that their son, Pfc. Louis HECKATHORN, 20, was killed in action in Belgium on Feb. 4. He had previously been reported as missing. Pfc. Heckathorn was born in South Bend on Oct. 16, 1924, but had resided in Fulton county almost all of his life. He was a graduate of Fulton high school and previous to his induction in the Army on June 3, 1942, drove a milk truck for Armour & Co. He trained in camps in New York and Virginia and had been overseas since last October. Surviving are the parents and a sister, LaDonna [HECKATHORN], at home; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. HECKATHORN of near Perrysburg and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry WELLER of Marion. [NOTE: Louis Heckathorn, 20, Fulton, killed in action in Germany, February 4, 1945. - Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 27, 2000.]
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries – 1945 by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Tuesday, February 27, 1945
Louis Heckathorn, PFC. LOUIS HECKATHORN IS NOW REPORTED KILLED. Word has been received from the War Department by Mr. and Mrs. Lester HECKATHORN of Liberty township that their son, Pfc. Louis HECKATHORN, 20, was killed in action in Belgium on Feb. 4. He had previously been reported as missing. Pfc. Heckathorn was born in South Bend on Oct. 16, 1924, but had resided in Fulton county almost all of his life. He was a graduate of Fulton high school and previous to his induction in the Army on June 3, 1942, drove a milk truck for Armour & Co. He trained in camps in New York and Virginia and had been overseas since last October. Surviving are the parents and a sister, LaDonna [HECKATHORN], at home; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. HECKATHORN of near Perrysburg and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry WELLER of Marion. [NOTE: Louis Heckathorn, 20, Fulton, killed in action in Germany, February 4, 1945. - Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 27, 2000.]
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries – 1945 by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Louis Heckathorn, PFC. LOUIS HECKATHORN IS NOW REPORTED KILLED. Word has been received from the War Department by Mr. and Mrs. Lester HECKATHORN of Liberty township that their son, Pfc. Louis HECKATHORN, 20, was killed in action in Belgium on Feb. 4. He had previously been reported as missing. Pfc. Heckathorn was born in South Bend on Oct. 16, 1924, but had resided in Fulton county almost all of his life. He was a graduate of Fulton high school and previous to his induction in the Army on June 3, 1942, drove a milk truck for Armour & Co. He trained in camps in New York and Virginia and had been overseas since last October. Surviving are the parents and a sister, LaDonna [HECKATHORN], at home; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. HECKATHORN of near Perrysburg and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry WELLER of Marion. [NOTE: Louis Heckathorn, 20, Fulton, killed in action in Germany, February 4, 1945. - Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, May 27, 2000.]
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries – 1945 by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
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