[St. Ansgar Enterprise, December 10, 1987]
Rites Set For Area Viet Victim
STACYVILLE, IA- Funeral services for Pfc. Howard M. Bissen, 20, of Stacyville, who died in action in Vietnam, have been set for 10 a.m. Saturday at Visitation Catholic Church at Stacyville, with burial in St. John's Cemetery at Johnsburg.
Two busloads of Army personnel are expected to arrive in Stacyville Friday evening and will provide full military rites Saturday.
Pfc. Bissen was reported missing January 16, but Thursday his parents were notified
he died January 8, 1968, of gunshot wounds received in Vietnam. His father said the Army told him his son died while assisting a wounded soldier.
Pfc. Bissen was born in Stacyville on March 2, 1947, the second son of Fred and Myrna [Elliot] Bissen. He attended grade school at St. John's School in Johnsburg and was a 1965 graduate of Visitation High School in Stacyville. He farmed with his father until entering the Army June 26.
He received basic training at Fort Campbell, KY, and advanced infantry combat training at Fort Polk, LA. He left for Vietnam Dec 5, and was stationed at Chu Lai air base on the coastline of Vietnam. He was a member of Co. B, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal division.
Survived by his parents; 4 brothers: Jim, Dale, Russell, and Larry Joe, all at home; 7 sisters: Mrs. Edward Kreidermacher of Minnelska, MN; June, Waterloo, and Shirley, Eloise, Emily, Rosalie, and Mary, all at home, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary I. Elliott of Adams.
The body was flown to Waterloo Tues. American Legion Hale Penney Fuller Post 569 escorted him to Stacyville.
Rites Set For Area Viet Victim
STACYVILLE, IA- Funeral services for Pfc. Howard M. Bissen, 20, of Stacyville, who died in action in Vietnam, have been set for 10 a.m. Saturday at Visitation Catholic Church at Stacyville, with burial in St. John's Cemetery at Johnsburg.
Two busloads of Army personnel are expected to arrive in Stacyville Friday evening and will provide full military rites Saturday.
Pfc. Bissen was reported missing January 16, but Thursday his parents were notified
he died January 8, 1968, of gunshot wounds received in Vietnam. His father said the Army told him his son died while assisting a wounded soldier.
Pfc. Bissen was born in Stacyville on March 2, 1947, the second son of Fred and Myrna [Elliot] Bissen. He attended grade school at St. John's School in Johnsburg and was a 1965 graduate of Visitation High School in Stacyville. He farmed with his father until entering the Army June 26.
He received basic training at Fort Campbell, KY, and advanced infantry combat training at Fort Polk, LA. He left for Vietnam Dec 5, and was stationed at Chu Lai air base on the coastline of Vietnam. He was a member of Co. B, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal division.
Survived by his parents; 4 brothers: Jim, Dale, Russell, and Larry Joe, all at home; 7 sisters: Mrs. Edward Kreidermacher of Minnelska, MN; June, Waterloo, and Shirley, Eloise, Emily, Rosalie, and Mary, all at home, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary I. Elliott of Adams.
The body was flown to Waterloo Tues. American Legion Hale Penney Fuller Post 569 escorted him to Stacyville.
[St. Ansgar Enterprise, December 10, 1987]
Rites Set For Area Viet Victim
STACYVILLE, IA- Funeral services for Pfc. Howard M. Bissen, 20, of Stacyville, who died in action in Vietnam, have been set for 10 a.m. Saturday at Visitation Catholic Church at Stacyville, with burial in St. John's Cemetery at Johnsburg.
Two busloads of Army personnel are expected to arrive in Stacyville Friday evening and will provide full military rites Saturday.
Pfc. Bissen was reported missing January 16, but Thursday his parents were notified
he died January 8, 1968, of gunshot wounds received in Vietnam. His father said the Army told him his son died while assisting a wounded soldier.
Pfc. Bissen was born in Stacyville on March 2, 1947, the second son of Fred and Myrna [Elliot] Bissen. He attended grade school at St. John's School in Johnsburg and was a 1965 graduate of Visitation High School in Stacyville. He farmed with his father until entering the Army June 26.
He received basic training at Fort Campbell, KY, and advanced infantry combat training at Fort Polk, LA. He left for Vietnam Dec 5, and was stationed at Chu Lai air base on the coastline of Vietnam. He was a member of Co. B, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal division.
Survived by his parents; 4 brothers: Jim, Dale, Russell, and Larry Joe, all at home; 7 sisters: Mrs. Edward Kreidermacher of Minnelska, MN; June, Waterloo, and Shirley, Eloise, Emily, Rosalie, and Mary, all at home, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary I. Elliott of Adams.
The body was flown to Waterloo Tues. American Legion Hale Penney Fuller Post 569 escorted him to Stacyville.
Rites Set For Area Viet Victim
STACYVILLE, IA- Funeral services for Pfc. Howard M. Bissen, 20, of Stacyville, who died in action in Vietnam, have been set for 10 a.m. Saturday at Visitation Catholic Church at Stacyville, with burial in St. John's Cemetery at Johnsburg.
Two busloads of Army personnel are expected to arrive in Stacyville Friday evening and will provide full military rites Saturday.
Pfc. Bissen was reported missing January 16, but Thursday his parents were notified
he died January 8, 1968, of gunshot wounds received in Vietnam. His father said the Army told him his son died while assisting a wounded soldier.
Pfc. Bissen was born in Stacyville on March 2, 1947, the second son of Fred and Myrna [Elliot] Bissen. He attended grade school at St. John's School in Johnsburg and was a 1965 graduate of Visitation High School in Stacyville. He farmed with his father until entering the Army June 26.
He received basic training at Fort Campbell, KY, and advanced infantry combat training at Fort Polk, LA. He left for Vietnam Dec 5, and was stationed at Chu Lai air base on the coastline of Vietnam. He was a member of Co. B, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal division.
Survived by his parents; 4 brothers: Jim, Dale, Russell, and Larry Joe, all at home; 7 sisters: Mrs. Edward Kreidermacher of Minnelska, MN; June, Waterloo, and Shirley, Eloise, Emily, Rosalie, and Mary, all at home, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary I. Elliott of Adams.
The body was flown to Waterloo Tues. American Legion Hale Penney Fuller Post 569 escorted him to Stacyville.
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