In the Hagadorn Mills Baptist Church, with the Rev. John H. Greening, pastor, officiating, funeral services were held in the afternoon of November 27, 1951 for Pfc. Mowrey Chauncey Goodbread, Jr., age 22, of Providence, New York, who died in Korea July 22, 1951.
Burial was in the Union Mills Cemetery where military rites were conducted by members of Robert Lee Walsh Post 337, American Legion.
Pfc. Goodbread was the son of Mrs. Albert (Emma) Austin and the late Mowrey Chauncey Goodbread, Sr.
Private First Class Goodbread was a member of Battery A, 39th Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division. He was accidentally hit and wounded by fragments of a hand grenade that exploded, thought to be a dud and thrown by another soldier while they were digging a bunker near Changgong, South Korea and was evacuated to the 8063rd Mobile Army Surgical Unit where he died.
Private First Class Goodbread was awarded the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal and the Korean War Service Medal.
He was born in Providence, New York, September 19, 1928, and attended Broadalbin High School. He was a member and usher of the Hagadorn Mills Baptist Church.
Before enlisting in the Army on October 6, 1950, Pfc. Goodbread was employed by the Mohawk Carpet Mills in Amsterdam. In addition to his mother, he was survived by two brothers, Corp. Jack Kenyon and Donald E. Zuckerwar.
His remains arrived in Amsterdam, New York from San Francisco, California, November 24, 1951, escorted by his brother Corp. Kenyon, who was serving in Japan.
Burial was in the Union Mills Cemetery where military rites were conducted by members of Robert Lee Walsh Post 337, American Legion.
Pfc. Goodbread was the son of Mrs. Albert (Emma) Austin and the late Mowrey Chauncey Goodbread, Sr.
Private First Class Goodbread was a member of Battery A, 39th Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division. He was accidentally hit and wounded by fragments of a hand grenade that exploded, thought to be a dud and thrown by another soldier while they were digging a bunker near Changgong, South Korea and was evacuated to the 8063rd Mobile Army Surgical Unit where he died.
Private First Class Goodbread was awarded the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal and the Korean War Service Medal.
He was born in Providence, New York, September 19, 1928, and attended Broadalbin High School. He was a member and usher of the Hagadorn Mills Baptist Church.
Before enlisting in the Army on October 6, 1950, Pfc. Goodbread was employed by the Mohawk Carpet Mills in Amsterdam. In addition to his mother, he was survived by two brothers, Corp. Jack Kenyon and Donald E. Zuckerwar.
His remains arrived in Amsterdam, New York from San Francisco, California, November 24, 1951, escorted by his brother Corp. Kenyon, who was serving in Japan.
In the Hagadorn Mills Baptist Church, with the Rev. John H. Greening, pastor, officiating, funeral services were held in the afternoon of November 27, 1951 for Pfc. Mowrey Chauncey Goodbread, Jr., age 22, of Providence, New York, who died in Korea July 22, 1951.
Burial was in the Union Mills Cemetery where military rites were conducted by members of Robert Lee Walsh Post 337, American Legion.
Pfc. Goodbread was the son of Mrs. Albert (Emma) Austin and the late Mowrey Chauncey Goodbread, Sr.
Private First Class Goodbread was a member of Battery A, 39th Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division. He was accidentally hit and wounded by fragments of a hand grenade that exploded, thought to be a dud and thrown by another soldier while they were digging a bunker near Changgong, South Korea and was evacuated to the 8063rd Mobile Army Surgical Unit where he died.
Private First Class Goodbread was awarded the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal and the Korean War Service Medal.
He was born in Providence, New York, September 19, 1928, and attended Broadalbin High School. He was a member and usher of the Hagadorn Mills Baptist Church.
Before enlisting in the Army on October 6, 1950, Pfc. Goodbread was employed by the Mohawk Carpet Mills in Amsterdam. In addition to his mother, he was survived by two brothers, Corp. Jack Kenyon and Donald E. Zuckerwar.
His remains arrived in Amsterdam, New York from San Francisco, California, November 24, 1951, escorted by his brother Corp. Kenyon, who was serving in Japan.
Burial was in the Union Mills Cemetery where military rites were conducted by members of Robert Lee Walsh Post 337, American Legion.
Pfc. Goodbread was the son of Mrs. Albert (Emma) Austin and the late Mowrey Chauncey Goodbread, Sr.
Private First Class Goodbread was a member of Battery A, 39th Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division. He was accidentally hit and wounded by fragments of a hand grenade that exploded, thought to be a dud and thrown by another soldier while they were digging a bunker near Changgong, South Korea and was evacuated to the 8063rd Mobile Army Surgical Unit where he died.
Private First Class Goodbread was awarded the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal and the Korean War Service Medal.
He was born in Providence, New York, September 19, 1928, and attended Broadalbin High School. He was a member and usher of the Hagadorn Mills Baptist Church.
Before enlisting in the Army on October 6, 1950, Pfc. Goodbread was employed by the Mohawk Carpet Mills in Amsterdam. In addition to his mother, he was survived by two brothers, Corp. Jack Kenyon and Donald E. Zuckerwar.
His remains arrived in Amsterdam, New York from San Francisco, California, November 24, 1951, escorted by his brother Corp. Kenyon, who was serving in Japan.
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P.F.C.
VETERAN OF THE KOREAN WAR
MOWREY C. GOODBREAD JR.
Sept 19, 1928
July 22, 1951
I have found a friend in Jesus,
He's everything to me,
He's the fairest of ten
thousand to my soul
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