Bodies Of Two Local Soldiers Arrive Friday
Pfc. John E. Raley, Pvt. John "Jack" DeRosa, Both 28, To Be Buried Here
The bodies of two local soldiers Pfc. John E. Raley and Pvt. John "Jack" DeRosa, both 28, who lost their lives during World War II, will arrive here Friday night for reburial services with full military honors.
The Hafer Funeral Home will receive the body of Pfc. Raley, son of Frank W. Raley, 110 Bellevue Street, and the late Clara (Miller) Raley, who died in June, 1944. He was killed in action August 2, 1944, on Guam.
Pfc. Raley entered service in April, 1942, and received basic training at Camp Pickett, Va., before going overseas in February, 1943. He served as a machine gunner in Company A, 307th Infantry, 77th Division.
In addition to his father, he is survived by five sisters, Mrs. Margaret Ravenscroft, Lonaconing; Mrs. Mildred McAteer, Mary, Ida Belle and Shilrey Raley, all at home, and four brothers, Robert, Herman E., James A. and Benjamin Raley, also at home.
Services will be held Saturday at 1:45 p.m. at the Hafer Funeral Home with the Rev. William J. Elliott, pastor of First Methodist Church, officiating. Military rites will be accorded at the grave in Hillcrest Burial Park by Fort Cumberland Post No. 13, American Legion. (Cumberland Evening Times, Cumberland, MD, Wednesday, April 7, 1948, p. 13, Col. 2)
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U. S. Army Service No. (ASN): #33199192
John E. Raley, TEC5, is listed as Died Of Wounds in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Allegany County, Maryland.
***I would like to thank mokennehan Find A Grave ID 47119719 for creating this memorial and also adding the obituary to it***
***I would like to thank Michael R Miller Find A Grave ID 47762095 for adding his gravesite photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Jo Peterson Find A Grave ID 48573704 for updating the birth date information on this memorial***
***I would like to thank Russ Pickett Find A Grave ID 46575736 for updating the rank, middle name and birth date/location information on this memorial in addition to linking his parents to it***
Bodies Of Two Local Soldiers Arrive Friday
Pfc. John E. Raley, Pvt. John "Jack" DeRosa, Both 28, To Be Buried Here
The bodies of two local soldiers Pfc. John E. Raley and Pvt. John "Jack" DeRosa, both 28, who lost their lives during World War II, will arrive here Friday night for reburial services with full military honors.
The Hafer Funeral Home will receive the body of Pfc. Raley, son of Frank W. Raley, 110 Bellevue Street, and the late Clara (Miller) Raley, who died in June, 1944. He was killed in action August 2, 1944, on Guam.
Pfc. Raley entered service in April, 1942, and received basic training at Camp Pickett, Va., before going overseas in February, 1943. He served as a machine gunner in Company A, 307th Infantry, 77th Division.
In addition to his father, he is survived by five sisters, Mrs. Margaret Ravenscroft, Lonaconing; Mrs. Mildred McAteer, Mary, Ida Belle and Shilrey Raley, all at home, and four brothers, Robert, Herman E., James A. and Benjamin Raley, also at home.
Services will be held Saturday at 1:45 p.m. at the Hafer Funeral Home with the Rev. William J. Elliott, pastor of First Methodist Church, officiating. Military rites will be accorded at the grave in Hillcrest Burial Park by Fort Cumberland Post No. 13, American Legion. (Cumberland Evening Times, Cumberland, MD, Wednesday, April 7, 1948, p. 13, Col. 2)
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U. S. Army Service No. (ASN): #33199192
John E. Raley, TEC5, is listed as Died Of Wounds in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Allegany County, Maryland.
***I would like to thank mokennehan Find A Grave ID 47119719 for creating this memorial and also adding the obituary to it***
***I would like to thank Michael R Miller Find A Grave ID 47762095 for adding his gravesite photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Jo Peterson Find A Grave ID 48573704 for updating the birth date information on this memorial***
***I would like to thank Russ Pickett Find A Grave ID 46575736 for updating the rank, middle name and birth date/location information on this memorial in addition to linking his parents to it***
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JOHN E. RALEY
1916 1944
CO. A 307TH INF. 77TH IDV.
DIED ON GUAM
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