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Marvin Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Lewis, was slightly wounded in the right wrist in action in Germany on March 3rd. He has written home since, so his injury has improved. He said he was back on duty but did not state that it was on the battle front. He has received the Purple Heart.
(THE MOUNTAIN ECHO newspaper...lronton, Iron County, Missouri...March 30, 1945)
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IRON COUNTY'S FIRST WAR DEAD
SERVICES AND BURIAL HELD
A Military Service was held at the Big Creek Church on Saturday afternoon for Pfc. Marvin L. Lewis who was killed in Germany. Rev. Vernon Parker was in charge of the service assisted by the American Legion and Auxiliary of Annapolis flag escorts and guards who were also pallbearers.
This is the first of the Iron County boys killed abroad to be returned home.
Among those attending the funeral of Pfc. Marvin Lewis last Saturday were: Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Yates, Mrs. Helen Russell, Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Adams and son, Jimmy, Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Bone, Mrs. Helen Moss, Mr. Miele Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. F. Grovero, Miss Bermeda Grovero, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bartolet, Mrs. Mary Buettner, Mrs. Margaret Byce, Mr. and Mrs. Delmar H. Lewis of St. Louis, Lt. Clifton Adams, Chanute Field, Illinois, Sgt. Joey Maupin, Scott Field, Ill., Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Warren, Crossville, Ill., Mrs. H.L. Adams, Flat River, Rev. A.H. Vaugh, Norman Vaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Vaugh and family, Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Waugh and family, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Allen of Farmington, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sullivan of Piedmont, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Sutton, Mr. Fird Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stark, Mr. and Mrs. Clint Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Sutton of Ironton, Mr. Perry Sutton, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Sherrill, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Sherrill, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mann, Miss Wanda Rose Mann, Mr. Issom Lewi
There were a number from Ironton and Annapolis whose names we did not get.
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Marvin Lewis, first of the almost forty war veterans from Iron County who died overseas to be brought back to this county was a student in the Annapolis schools while we were a teacher there. We had him in our classes for about two years. He was a lad who had no trouble in making friends, not only among the students but his teachers, too. His was a winning smile and a laughing voice. When anything was to be done, he was ready and always did his share of the hard work, carnival, May Day, whatever it was. Then, one day, he came to us and said he was quitting school to enlist in the service of his country. Some time later, he was back on furlough and came to visit the school, looking so nice in his uniform. Not only the boys but the girls all crowded around him to visit with him during his too-short stay. The war was going badly and he, with a lot of other young lads, was rushed in to stem the German tide. The Nazis were stopped but it took a lot of blood to do it. Some of it was our Iron County lads'.
(THE MOUNTAIN ECHO newspaper... Ironton, Iron County, Missouri...Dec. 12, 1947)
- Research notes courtesy of Linda E. Lewis, “George Lewis Descendants”, published October 1992.
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1925 - 1945 (19 years)
