Research provides that he was son of Esther Moser and Carl Beatty. He enlisted in the U.S. Army (domestic service) on 17 Feb 1941. His service commitment apparently took him to North Carolina where he was working with Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation . He married Alma Wall, of Greensboro, NC, about 1942 and they had one son born in August 1943. He began his foreign military service on 8 Oct 1943 when he was transferred to the European Theater and, subsequently took part in the invasion of Germany after D-Day.
Private First Class Beatty was killed in action near the Rhine river while assigned with the 3710 Truck Company, Quartermaster Corps. Burial occurred in a temporary military cemetery until the remains were exhumed and returned to the United States in 1947.
His obituary in the Greensboro Record, dated November 20, 1947, provides the body arrived that morning and graveside services were conducted in the veteran's plot at Forest Lawn Cemetery. He was survived by his wife; one son, Donald C. Beatty Jr., both of Greensboro; his mother, Mrs. Esther Beatty, and a sister. Mrs. John B. Powell, both of Huntingdon.
Private First Class Beatty was killed in action near the Rhine river while assigned with the 3710 Truck Company, Quartermaster Corps. Burial occurred in a temporary military cemetery until the remains were exhumed and returned to the United States in 1947.
His obituary in the Greensboro Record, dated November 20, 1947, provides the body arrived that morning and graveside services were conducted in the veteran's plot at Forest Lawn Cemetery. He was survived by his wife; one son, Donald C. Beatty Jr., both of Greensboro; his mother, Mrs. Esther Beatty, and a sister. Mrs. John B. Powell, both of Huntingdon.
Research provides that he was son of Esther Moser and Carl Beatty. He enlisted in the U.S. Army (domestic service) on 17 Feb 1941. His service commitment apparently took him to North Carolina where he was working with Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation . He married Alma Wall, of Greensboro, NC, about 1942 and they had one son born in August 1943. He began his foreign military service on 8 Oct 1943 when he was transferred to the European Theater and, subsequently took part in the invasion of Germany after D-Day.
Private First Class Beatty was killed in action near the Rhine river while assigned with the 3710 Truck Company, Quartermaster Corps. Burial occurred in a temporary military cemetery until the remains were exhumed and returned to the United States in 1947.
His obituary in the Greensboro Record, dated November 20, 1947, provides the body arrived that morning and graveside services were conducted in the veteran's plot at Forest Lawn Cemetery. He was survived by his wife; one son, Donald C. Beatty Jr., both of Greensboro; his mother, Mrs. Esther Beatty, and a sister. Mrs. John B. Powell, both of Huntingdon.
Private First Class Beatty was killed in action near the Rhine river while assigned with the 3710 Truck Company, Quartermaster Corps. Burial occurred in a temporary military cemetery until the remains were exhumed and returned to the United States in 1947.
His obituary in the Greensboro Record, dated November 20, 1947, provides the body arrived that morning and graveside services were conducted in the veteran's plot at Forest Lawn Cemetery. He was survived by his wife; one son, Donald C. Beatty Jr., both of Greensboro; his mother, Mrs. Esther Beatty, and a sister. Mrs. John B. Powell, both of Huntingdon.
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