| Birth: | Jun. 30, 1919
Joplin
Jasper County
Missouri, USA | | Death: | Mar. 9, 1943
Kern County
California, USA | 
2nd Lieutenant Karch was killed when he crashed in his U.S. Army Air Corps RP-38E Lightning fighter #41-2278, 8 miles west of Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base), near Rancho Oro Verde, California
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LIEUT. KARCH RITES ON WEST COAST TODAY
Funeral services for Second Lieutenant Robert Ellis Karch, 23 years old, a
former Joplin youth, who was killed in an airplane crash last Tuesday near
Muroc, Calif., were to be held today in West Los Angeles, Calif., with burial in
a veterans' cemetery there.
Lieutenant Karch was a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Karch of Verona, Mo. He was
born in Joplin and attended school at Miller and later at Verona, where he
graduated with honors. he was a graduate of an officers' training school at
Merced, Calif., and had been stationed at March Field, Calif., in the air corps.
Besides his parents, he is survived by a sister, Mrs. Edith Baker of St. Louis
and several uncles and cousins living in Joplin. (Joplin News Herald, Joplin,
MO, Friday, March 12, 1943, p. 2, Col. 6)
Family links:
Parents:
Lewis S. Karch (1879 - 1958)
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Los Angeles National Cemetery
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
California, USA
Plot: 180, 5/ROW B |
Maintained by: Tim Cook
Originally Created by: US Veterans Affairs Offi...
Record added: Mar 04, 2000
Find A Grave Memorial# 3722902 |
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Killed in the crash of his U.S. Army Air Corps RP-38E fighter, 8 miles west of Muroc Army Air Field, near Rancho Oro Verde, California
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