Awards: Purple Heart
ALVA TURBETT DIES IN ACTION IN PACIFIC WAR
First Selectee of Peoria Area to Be Victim
Corp. Alva Turbett, 31, better known to friends here as Orville Turbett, is believed to be the first Peoria selectee to be killed in action in the war in the Pacific. Word of his death Dec 14 in the Philippines was received Wednesday by his brother L.D. Turbett, 500 West Richwoods boulevard.
Permitted to leave the service because he was over 28 years of age, he re-enlisted and was sent to Fort Stotsenburg on Luzon. Drafted here last March 10, he had since been promoted to a corporalship in the coast artillery. Before leaving here, we was employed in the experimental department at Caterpillar Tractor company.
Corp. Turbett was born Nov 10, 1910 at Hanna City, son of the late James and Ada Turbett. He was graduated from Washington grade school here and from Peoria high school. Unmarried, he lived with his brother L.D. Turbett.
Also surviving are two brothers, Milo Turbett of Creve Coeur and Walter Turbett of Pekin, and a sister, Mrs. Emma Hurtley of Indianapolis.
ALVA TURBETT DIES IN ACTION IN PACIFIC WAR
First Selectee of Peoria Area to Be Victim
Corp. Alva Turbett, 31, better known to friends here as Orville Turbett, is believed to be the first Peoria selectee to be killed in action in the war in the Pacific. Word of his death Dec 14 in the Philippines was received Wednesday by his brother L.D. Turbett, 500 West Richwoods boulevard.
Permitted to leave the service because he was over 28 years of age, he re-enlisted and was sent to Fort Stotsenburg on Luzon. Drafted here last March 10, he had since been promoted to a corporalship in the coast artillery. Before leaving here, we was employed in the experimental department at Caterpillar Tractor company.
Corp. Turbett was born Nov 10, 1910 at Hanna City, son of the late James and Ada Turbett. He was graduated from Washington grade school here and from Peoria high school. Unmarried, he lived with his brother L.D. Turbett.
Also surviving are two brothers, Milo Turbett of Creve Coeur and Walter Turbett of Pekin, and a sister, Mrs. Emma Hurtley of Indianapolis.
Awards: Purple Heart
ALVA TURBETT DIES IN ACTION IN PACIFIC WAR
First Selectee of Peoria Area to Be Victim
Corp. Alva Turbett, 31, better known to friends here as Orville Turbett, is believed to be the first Peoria selectee to be killed in action in the war in the Pacific. Word of his death Dec 14 in the Philippines was received Wednesday by his brother L.D. Turbett, 500 West Richwoods boulevard.
Permitted to leave the service because he was over 28 years of age, he re-enlisted and was sent to Fort Stotsenburg on Luzon. Drafted here last March 10, he had since been promoted to a corporalship in the coast artillery. Before leaving here, we was employed in the experimental department at Caterpillar Tractor company.
Corp. Turbett was born Nov 10, 1910 at Hanna City, son of the late James and Ada Turbett. He was graduated from Washington grade school here and from Peoria high school. Unmarried, he lived with his brother L.D. Turbett.
Also surviving are two brothers, Milo Turbett of Creve Coeur and Walter Turbett of Pekin, and a sister, Mrs. Emma Hurtley of Indianapolis.
ALVA TURBETT DIES IN ACTION IN PACIFIC WAR
First Selectee of Peoria Area to Be Victim
Corp. Alva Turbett, 31, better known to friends here as Orville Turbett, is believed to be the first Peoria selectee to be killed in action in the war in the Pacific. Word of his death Dec 14 in the Philippines was received Wednesday by his brother L.D. Turbett, 500 West Richwoods boulevard.
Permitted to leave the service because he was over 28 years of age, he re-enlisted and was sent to Fort Stotsenburg on Luzon. Drafted here last March 10, he had since been promoted to a corporalship in the coast artillery. Before leaving here, we was employed in the experimental department at Caterpillar Tractor company.
Corp. Turbett was born Nov 10, 1910 at Hanna City, son of the late James and Ada Turbett. He was graduated from Washington grade school here and from Peoria high school. Unmarried, he lived with his brother L.D. Turbett.
Also surviving are two brothers, Milo Turbett of Creve Coeur and Walter Turbett of Pekin, and a sister, Mrs. Emma Hurtley of Indianapolis.
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Entered the service from Illinois.
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