Father: Claude Dawes, Sr. born in Iowa
Mother: Clara Hessie, born in Illinois
Pvt. Claude E. Dawes, Jr. died at Camp Berkley, Abilene, Texas following an emergency abdominal operation. He had been ill at the camp hospital since Wednesday previous. The operation was performed Sunday afternoon. Peritonitis developed and resulted in his death a few hours after.
Claude came to Douglas with his parents in time to finish his grade schooling here and he graduated from the Douglas High School with the class of 1935. For a time he studied at the University of Wyoming. He worked for awhile as a ranch hand at the Virden ranch, later joining a crew of the Knisely-Moore Construction Company. On March 23 he left Douglas with a group of selective service inductees for entrance into the Army at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was placed in the infantry group and was training at Camp Berkley when his untimely death came.
He is survived by his parents; three brothers, Hesse of Hay Center, Neb.; Jim of Douglas; and William P. of Edgemont, S.D.; a sister, Mrs. Mary Snyder of Twin Falls, Ida.; three aunts, Mrs. S. G. Platt and Mrs. Lula Merrill of Trenton, Neb.; and Mrs. Frank McFall of Antioch, Neb.; and an uncle, Pete Dawes of Glenn, Neb. He was a nephew of the late Maude E. Dawes, pioneer educator of Converse County.
Information was obtained from his obituary in the Douglas Budget May 21, 1942; cemetery and mortuary records.
Mother: Clara Hessie, born in Illinois
Pvt. Claude E. Dawes, Jr. died at Camp Berkley, Abilene, Texas following an emergency abdominal operation. He had been ill at the camp hospital since Wednesday previous. The operation was performed Sunday afternoon. Peritonitis developed and resulted in his death a few hours after.
Claude came to Douglas with his parents in time to finish his grade schooling here and he graduated from the Douglas High School with the class of 1935. For a time he studied at the University of Wyoming. He worked for awhile as a ranch hand at the Virden ranch, later joining a crew of the Knisely-Moore Construction Company. On March 23 he left Douglas with a group of selective service inductees for entrance into the Army at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was placed in the infantry group and was training at Camp Berkley when his untimely death came.
He is survived by his parents; three brothers, Hesse of Hay Center, Neb.; Jim of Douglas; and William P. of Edgemont, S.D.; a sister, Mrs. Mary Snyder of Twin Falls, Ida.; three aunts, Mrs. S. G. Platt and Mrs. Lula Merrill of Trenton, Neb.; and Mrs. Frank McFall of Antioch, Neb.; and an uncle, Pete Dawes of Glenn, Neb. He was a nephew of the late Maude E. Dawes, pioneer educator of Converse County.
Information was obtained from his obituary in the Douglas Budget May 21, 1942; cemetery and mortuary records.
Father: Claude Dawes, Sr. born in Iowa
Mother: Clara Hessie, born in Illinois
Pvt. Claude E. Dawes, Jr. died at Camp Berkley, Abilene, Texas following an emergency abdominal operation. He had been ill at the camp hospital since Wednesday previous. The operation was performed Sunday afternoon. Peritonitis developed and resulted in his death a few hours after.
Claude came to Douglas with his parents in time to finish his grade schooling here and he graduated from the Douglas High School with the class of 1935. For a time he studied at the University of Wyoming. He worked for awhile as a ranch hand at the Virden ranch, later joining a crew of the Knisely-Moore Construction Company. On March 23 he left Douglas with a group of selective service inductees for entrance into the Army at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was placed in the infantry group and was training at Camp Berkley when his untimely death came.
He is survived by his parents; three brothers, Hesse of Hay Center, Neb.; Jim of Douglas; and William P. of Edgemont, S.D.; a sister, Mrs. Mary Snyder of Twin Falls, Ida.; three aunts, Mrs. S. G. Platt and Mrs. Lula Merrill of Trenton, Neb.; and Mrs. Frank McFall of Antioch, Neb.; and an uncle, Pete Dawes of Glenn, Neb. He was a nephew of the late Maude E. Dawes, pioneer educator of Converse County.
Information was obtained from his obituary in the Douglas Budget May 21, 1942; cemetery and mortuary records.
Mother: Clara Hessie, born in Illinois
Pvt. Claude E. Dawes, Jr. died at Camp Berkley, Abilene, Texas following an emergency abdominal operation. He had been ill at the camp hospital since Wednesday previous. The operation was performed Sunday afternoon. Peritonitis developed and resulted in his death a few hours after.
Claude came to Douglas with his parents in time to finish his grade schooling here and he graduated from the Douglas High School with the class of 1935. For a time he studied at the University of Wyoming. He worked for awhile as a ranch hand at the Virden ranch, later joining a crew of the Knisely-Moore Construction Company. On March 23 he left Douglas with a group of selective service inductees for entrance into the Army at Leavenworth, Kansas. He was placed in the infantry group and was training at Camp Berkley when his untimely death came.
He is survived by his parents; three brothers, Hesse of Hay Center, Neb.; Jim of Douglas; and William P. of Edgemont, S.D.; a sister, Mrs. Mary Snyder of Twin Falls, Ida.; three aunts, Mrs. S. G. Platt and Mrs. Lula Merrill of Trenton, Neb.; and Mrs. Frank McFall of Antioch, Neb.; and an uncle, Pete Dawes of Glenn, Neb. He was a nephew of the late Maude E. Dawes, pioneer educator of Converse County.
Information was obtained from his obituary in the Douglas Budget May 21, 1942; cemetery and mortuary records.
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"Wyoming PVT 359 INF"
Gravesite Details
Birth year is uncertain. Obit and mortuary records show 1917; headstone shows 1922.
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